The Helsinki City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal to build a Guggenheim art museum in the Finnish capital.

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Absent from the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, Benjamin Britten’s great maritime tragedy “Billy Budd” has made a brief but welcome return in the season’s closing days.

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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Helsinki rejected a proposal to build a 140 million euro ($185 million) Guggenheim museum on the Finnish capital’s waterfront, a notice on the city’s website said on Wednesday. The Helsinki City Board, a vetting committee of 15 municipal politicians selected to consider proposals for the Helsinki City council, voted eight to seven against putting the Guggenheim project forward for the council’s consideration. “The City Board rejects the project” it said on the Helsinki city website under the heading Decision bulletin no. 17. …

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KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – American industrialist David Koch, a major supporter of conservative causes, said on Thursday his lifelong fascination with dinosaurs drove his $35 million donation to renovate the National Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur hall. The gift was the largest single donation in the Washington-based museum and research institution’s 112-year history, the Smithsonian Institution said. “I’ve had a love affair with dinosaurs since I was a boy,” Koch, who turned 72 on Thursday, told Reuters in a telephone interview from New York, where he lives. …

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A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn’t believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on exhibit. The map purported to show the Byzantine Empire at its largest size in the 6th century, but he noticed that Spain and part of Africa were missing from the depiction.

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