Brazilian Museum Declared a Menace
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The SÃ£o Paulo Museum of Art, site of the theft last month of paintings valued at more than $50 million, has been threatened by SÃ£o Paulo state authorities with temporary closing.
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The museum aims to insert peace into a culture that glorifies martyrdom.
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A 20-foot-tall statue in Brazzaville that honors its first master, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, has drawn fire from critics who say it is a waste of government money.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Residents of crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro have a new kind of predator to worry about - hawks.
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The spectacular ruckus caused by the showing of Friedrich Christian Flick's collection in Berlin proves that art cannot cleanse a name tainted by a sordid past.
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The bold attack on President Ramos-Horta raises key concerns about efforts to rebuild security forces.
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Brazil's finance minister was taken hostage for hours this week by armed assailants who invaded and robbed a country retreat he was visiting for a barbecue during carnival, officials and Brazilian media said Friday.
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A newly opened Cincinnati museum  portraying the horrors of American slavery has generated  criticism and stoked friction that persists three years after  race riots tore through the Ohio city.
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Italy's culture minister has threatened to shut down Florence's Uffizi museum, home of masterpieces by Michelangelo and Botticelli, if the government doesn't scale back planned spending cuts.
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Brazil this week imposed a ban on popular role-playing computer games "Counter-Strike" and "EverQuest," claiming they incited violence and were "harmful to consumers' health."
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Armed thieves burst into a Norwegian museum yesterday, held a guard at gunpoint, yanked Edvard Munch&#39;s The Scream off the wall, whisked past stunned visitors and jumped into a
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'Safety in numbers' for Amazonian legend Visitors to the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition will be greeted with the rather disagreeable news that the feared piranha - legendary for hanging around in ferocious packs dedicated to reducing their prey to skeletal remains in seconds - actually congregate for fear of themselves ending up on the menu.â¦
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Police were searching on Friday for a lion that reportedly has terrorized a small village in northeastern Brazil for a week.    Residents lock their doors when darkness falls in Santa Barbara, about 700 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro...
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Major heritage projects, from the National Gallery's attempted purchase of a set of Poussin masterpieces to the British Museum's proposed building of a new exhibition space, could be threatened because of lottery money diverted to the Olympics.
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When two men in balaclavas lifted Edvard Munch&#39;s The Scream from the wall of an Oslo art gallery, they humiliated its custodians.
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A Catholic aid agency  voices deep concern after a priest working on land  rights in Brazil gets death threats.
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The American delegation has found itself in a controversy after a phrase that Brazilians considered prejudiced and demeaning appeared on a message board at the American media center.