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Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automa...

Author Peter Carey poses for a photograph in New York City's Soho neighborhoodNEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, "The Chemistry of Tears" is the 12th novel by Australian-born Peter Carey, winner of two Booker Prizes for "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang". ...

Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcr...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the "Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition" on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers. ...

NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.

NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine

Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.

Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera

No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Orpheus," a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978.

'Newsies' choreographer draws on his background

Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.

Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July

The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.

Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera

All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito."

German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead

A German opera house says renowned baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died. He was 86.