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...Proposal: $34.1 million, first weekend 2. The Hangover: $26.9 million; $152.9 million, third week 3. Up: $21.3 million; $224.1 million, fourth week 4. Year One: $20.2 million, first weekend 5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: $11.3 million; $43.3 million, second week 6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $7.3 million; $156 million, fifth week 7. Star Trek: $4.7 million; $239.4 million, seventh week 8. Land of the Lost: $4 million; $43.7 million, third week 9. Imagine That: $3.1 million; $11.4 million, second week 10. Terminator Salvation: $3.1 million; $119.5 million, second week...
...photographs in its collection that date back to the 1850s, and in April opened them to tourists for the first time. Kumar believes that the current maharaja is all too aware that the palace's financial viability depends on making it a world-class attraction, and a museum is part of the package. The proliferation of new galleries, and the increasing profile of the art market, is forcing Indians to think about how they value the art of the past, present and future - and perhaps appreciate all of it more. More Indians are certainly being exposed to art than ever...
...Accompanying it is a new drive to display these private collections in public spaces. State-run museums are devoted primarily to antiquities and a handful of acknowledged modern masters such as M.F. Husain and Amrita Sher-Gil. The vast majority of modern Indian art is either in private homes or displayed only when it's for sale in commercial galleries. The Poddar family opened the Devi Art Foundation partly because the collection had overtaken their home, and also because, as Lekha Poddar explains, the artists had a significance beyond her own pleasure. Galleries would "constantly direct people to our home...
...Washington Holocaust Museum Shooting On June 10, a gunman opened fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a security guard before the assailant was struck by return shots. Law-enforcement officials said the 88-year-old suspect, James Von Brunn, had ties to white-supremacist groups. He served prison time after carrying guns into Washington's Federal Reserve Building...
...competition and drag shows, meanwhile, proceeded as planned. In May, plans to build China's first sex theme park were nixed after pictures of the venue's thong-clad, leg-shaped gate caught the attention of the press, though the city of Tongli, outside Shanghai, has its own sex museum displaying centuries-old sex toys and sexy statues to boot. (See pictures of life on the fringes of China...