• German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead May 18, 2012
  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.
• Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera May 18, 2012
  All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito."
• Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum May 18, 2012
  Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the whole project off track.
• Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans May 18, 2012
  Plans to turn Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.
• Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera 'Ballo' May 17, 2012
  Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)."
• Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry May 17, 2012
  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. ...
• Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July May 17, 2012
  The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.
• Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton May 17, 2012
  NEW 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". ...
• 'Newsies' choreographer draws on his background May 16, 2012
  Seventeen young dancers stop horsing around on the Nederlander Theatre stage as Christopher Gattelli approaches.
• Telemann's 'Orpheus' given staging by NYC Opera May 16, 2012
  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.
• NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine May 16, 2012
  Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.
• NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9 May 16, 2012
  New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.
• Santa Fe festival will honor Navajo artist May 14, 2012
  Artist Tony Abeyta just can't help himself.
• Up on the roof of NY's Met museum in "Cloud City" May 14, 2012
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno combines art, architecture and science in a striking installation on the rooftop garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art that gives visitors a different perspective of the sky, clouds and the city around them. "Cloud City," which opens on Tuesday and runs for six months, is a giant jumble of interconnecting modules, measuring 54 feet long and 28 feet high, that rises to varying levels and incorporates reflective materials, mirrors and glass with New York's skyline and Central Park as the backdrop. ...
• Curator of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum resigns May 11, 2012
  Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator and director of the research center at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
• A 'Picasso' That an Ohio Man Bought in a Thrift Store Sold for $7,000 May 11, 2012
  Zachary Bodish, 46, of Columbus, Ohio, bought what he thought was a poster reproduction advertising an exhibit of Pablo Picasso for $14.14 in a thrift store and sold it for $7,000 to a private buyer.
• Artist Kapoor finds beauty in London's Olympic orbit May 11, 2012
  LONDON (Reuters) - Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor said on Friday that Britons would grow to love his spiraling red tower on London's Olympic Park, just as people had come to appreciate other structures initially loathed, including the Eiffel Tower. The 115-metre tall structure, higher than London's Big Ben and New York's Statue of Liberty has divided opinion, with some describing it as resembling a carnival slide or a water pipe. ...
• Estonia to open maritime museum in seaplane hangar May 11, 2012
  Estonia will open the Baltic states' largest maritime museum in a hangar once used by Charles Lindbergh.
• Detroit orchestra hopes Kid Rock show raises $1M May 11, 2012
  This time last year, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was about a month removed from a contentious musicians' strike that worsened its already strained finances. Now, the rebounding organization aims to raise the roof — and hopefully $1 million — with help from a hometown musician known more for rock, rap and country than classical.
• Jeff Koons seeks to wring emotion from "empty" art May 11, 2012
  BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. pop artist Jeff Koons is seeking to fire up your emotions at a retrospective show of his work in Switzerland. Although some critics regard his work as empty kitsch, Koons has put 30 years of sculpture - including his famous Balloon Dog - into his first museum show in Switzerland along with the admission that his art is in eye of the beholder. Visitors to the Fondation Beyeler in Basel are met by a giant globe-like sculpture made of thousands of flowers. ...

• Broadway cast's One Direction lip-sync goes viral May 17, 2012
• Reporter tips over Harley in safety segment May 16, 2012
  May is Motorcycle Safety Month, and reporter Stephanie Berzinski of WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, N.C., learned first-hand how tough the big bikes can be to handle when she tipped over a new Harley-Davidson live on the air during a safety story.
• Ellen DeGeneres to receive top humor prize May 15, 2012
  Ellen DeGeneres, who broke ground in 1997 as the first lead character on prime-time TV to reveal she was gay, is winning the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
• 'Poo-machine' draws crowds to 'adult Disneyland' May 14, 2012
  Smelling excrement may not be everyone's idea of fun, but for those who like to push the boundaries, Australia's most controversial new museum may be just what they are looking for.
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• Zooey Deschanel to play Loretta Lynn on stage May 11, 2012
• Man finds Picasso at thrift store, sells it for $7K May 10, 2012
  An unemployed Ohio man browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell paid $14 for what he thought was an ordinary art poster.
• Lichtenstein's 'Sleeping Girl' sells for $44.8M May 10, 2012
  The sale set a record for the pop artist at Sotheby's $267 million auction of postwar and contemporary art.
• 'Love' artist renounces other work, gets sued May 8, 2012
  The 83-year-old artist known for his block letter "LOVE" design is being sued by a Monaco-based art dealer for renouncing the authenticity of other sculptures.
• 'The Scream' sells for record $120M at auction May 3, 2012
  Bidding started at around $50 million for the work and elapsed over about 15 minutes until an unnamed bidder by telephone gave the final offer of $119,922,500, including commission.
• Cezanne, Matisse works sold for $19M each May 2, 2012
  Auctions brought in millions for art by Cezanne and Matisse, but Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is expected to break records when it goes on the block Wednesday.

• Coming Soon — To A Theater Nowhere Near You May 18, 2012
  Feel like you're the last to see the new Hollywood blockbuster? You may be right — because studios have started premiering big films overseas before they come to the United States.
• Cannes Film Festival Has American Slant This Year May 18, 2012
  Melissa Block talks to Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Zeitchik about what's popular this year at the Cannes Film Festival.
• Pop Culture Happy Hour: TV Season Postmortem, Old People, Young People May 18, 2012
  On this week's show, we talk about how the recently concluded TV season went, we touch on pop culture portrayals of older and younger people, and as always, we discuss what's making us happy this week.
• Rhymes With Musical May 18, 2012
  If "Lent: The Musical" ever hits Broadway, Jonathan Coulton has its hit song ready to go. He performs parodies of classic songs from famous musicals, and our Broadway-bred Mystery Guest competes against another musical theater buff.
• How Do You Make A Virtual Choir? May 17, 2012
  Composer Eric Whitacre conducts thousands of singers from around the world. He explains the possibilities and challenges of making music powered by YouTube.
• Why Do Crowds Do Absurd Things In Public? May 17, 2012
  Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious and unexpected public scenes with his group, Improv Everywhere — like 70 synchronized dancers in storefront windows, and the annual no-pants subway ride.
• How Many People Can You Fit In A Star Wars Remake? May 17, 2012
  Everyone loves Star Wars. At least that's what Casey Pugh was banking on when he "asked the Internet" to remake the entire film in 15-second increments.
• Can Crowds Celebrate As A Form Of Protest? May 17, 2012
  When Anders Behring Breivik admitted to killing 77 people in Norway in 2011, he claimed that a children's song was "brainwashing" the country's youth. Here's how 40,000 Norwegians reclaimed it.
• A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes May 18, 2012
  Carlos Fuentes, one of the most influential writers in the Latin American world, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83. Fresh Air remembers the prolific author with excerpts from a 1987 interview.
• Remembering Vidal Sassoon, An Iconic Hairdresser May 18, 2012
  The British hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, who created some of the most iconic hairstyles of the 20th century, died on May 9 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. Fresh Air remembers the trendsetter with excerpts from a 2011 interview.

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