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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last year have been commemorated in a display of specially commissioned jewellery which opened on Friday at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Curator Rose Watban said 16 established or up-and-coming jewellers in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Scotland were contacted to create items "inspired by a place they love, as well as draw inspiration from each other's work". ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest political scandal in two decades is likely to have dashed playwright David Henry Hwang's hopes of bringing his Broadway play "Chinglish" to mainland China anytime soon. In a case of life imitating art, the comedy has so many similarities to events surrounding deposed Chinese politician Bo Xilai that Hwang says he doesn't believe it would be acceptable to the authorities to allow a production to be mounted. ...

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Taylor Swift is donating 4 million dollars to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in the US to make sure education continues.

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Cannes Film Festival kicked off in spectacular style yesterday with gorgeous gowns aplenty. Eva Longoria and Diane Kruger stole the show on the first day of the Cannes Film Festival thanks to the huge trains of their dresses yesterday. [Related …

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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Barnes collection, with more than 4,000 works of art including paintings by Renoir, Van Gogh and Cezanne, opens at its new home on Saturday in Philadelphia's cultural center. The opening in the modern $150 million (94.2 million pounds) facility on a 4.5-acre (1.8-hectare) site comes after a nearly decade-long fight over the move from its historic home in a suburb outside the city. "This is a world-class collection and we decided to give it a world-class home," Joseph Neubauer, vice chairman of the board of The Barnes Foundation, said on Wednesday. ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - A decadent gown made from feathers and a printed lace latex dress designed by some of fashion's luminaries will go on display as part of a new exhibition to celebrate the glitz and glamour of Britain's ball gowns. Ball gowns: British Glamour Since 1950, on at London's Victoria and Albert Museum from May 19 until January 2013, showcases a collection of 60 dresses marking the journey of formal attire from private events to the public parade. ...

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Rita Ora is no stranger to Rihanna comparisons— not only does she possesses the same fearless poise and striking vocals but the singer is equally as experimental with her fashion. To celebrate hitting the number one spot with R.I.P featuring …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - 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. Dubbed "the subversive adult Disneyland", the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is located in Tasmania and features around 400 works of art from Egyptian mummies to Young British Artists including Chris Ofili and Jenny Saville. But the most talked-about piece is the Cloaca Professional, labelled the "poo-machine. ...

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With Alesha Dixon joining Amanda Holden on the Britain's Got Talent panel this year for the first time, all eyes were on what fashion spectacles the pair would pull out. And just as the past week of BGT semi-finals has …

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LONDON (Reuters) - Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor said on Friday that Britons would grow to love his spiralling 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. ...

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