Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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Two towers: L.A.’s downtown skyline could see some changes if Korean Air’s plan for two new high-rise buildings goes through. (The towers are rendered in blue in the picture to the right.)

Crescendo: The USC Thornton School of Music is expanding its physical presence by 50% by acquiring three buildings on the university’s campus.

Starchitects: The economic crisis means that big architecture firms like Frank Gehry’s are more likely to enter — and to win — competitions for coveted projects, according to L.A. Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.

Money trouble: The Children’s Museum of Los Angeles faces possible bankruptcy and liquidation before it even opens after a major donor was hit by fraud charges.

Curtain raiser: Plácido Domingo will give a concert to open a new convention center in Zacatecas, Mexico.

Closing shop: Beleaguered Swiss banking giant UBS is shutting down its ‘art banking’ division, which advised clients on buying works of art.

Mummy returns: The popular exhibition ‘Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs’ opens at San Francisco’s de Young Museum on June 27. Tickets go on sale Monday, April 6. The exhibition ran at LACMA in 2005.

— David Ng

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