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Monster Mash: Breaking arts news and headlines

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-- The Chronicle of Philanthropy has published a report ranking U.S. non-profit organizations in terms of fundraising from private sources. Among arts institutions, New York’s Metropolitan Opera took first place with $128.1 million raised in 2007. L.A.’s Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (pictured above) ranked high on the list, with $52.3 million raised last year.

-- L.A.’s Center Theatre Group will receive $90,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the production of Rajiv Joseph’s ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,’ which is scheduled to open at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2009. The gift is part of NEA’s New Play Development Program that is also funding new plays by Octavio Solis at California Shakespeare Company and Tarell Alvin McCraney at New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre.

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-- Charles Busch’s ‘The Third Story’ will have its New York premiere in a production by MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with previews starting Jan. 14. Busch’s play had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in September.

-- Major L.A. arts institutions are banding together to shed light on the city’s relatively young art history thanks to a project from the Getty Foundation entitled ‘On the Record: Art in L.A., 1945-1980.’

-- James McAvoy will star in a West End production of Richard Greenberg’s ‘Three Days of Rain,’ set to open Feb. 10. Greenberg’s play opened on Broadway in 2006 in a production starring Julia Roberts.

-- The family of a Jewish art dealer killed during the Holocaust is suing Germany in a U.S. court for damages incurred by the Nazis’ confiscation of his collection, which included paintings by El Greco and Pissarro.

-- Raphael’s ‘Madonna of the Goldfinch’ (1506) is set to go back on public display following a 10-year restoration. The work will be seen first at Florence’s Palazzo Medici before returning to its longtime home, the Uffizi Gallery.

-- David Ng

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