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Monster Mash: Clint Eastwood receives Museum of Tolerance award; O.C. arts groups see box-office slump

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Honored: The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles bestowed its Tolerance Award to Clint Eastwood at the museum’s first International Film Festival. (Los Angeles Times)

Slumping: A study finds that 24 arts groups in Orange County saw their combined box office returns fall in 2008-09. (Los Angeles Times)

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Financial trouble: The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco faces bankruptcy if it can’t work out a new deal with a lender. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Public appeal: The Louvre Museum in Paris is launching a rare public campaign to help purchase a 1531 painting by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. (The Guardian)

Called off: London’s Natural History Museum has suspended a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. (BBC News)

Looking east: The Edinburgh International Festival will turn its focus on Asian culture next year, with artists from China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam invited to attend. (The Scotsman)

Closing early: The Broadway revival of ‘La Bête,’ starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumely, will close Jan. 9, a month earlier than scheduled. (Playbill)

Standoff: The Louisville Orchestra is threatening bankruptcy if its musicians union doesn’t agree to drastic cuts. (Louisville Courier-Journal)

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Protest: Activists gathered outside the Center for Performing Arts in Tel Aviv on Monday, calling for a boycott on Israel. (Jerusalem Post)

Bird enthusiast: An American citizen has been charged over the theft of 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring in Britain. (BBC News)

Seized: New Mexico State Police have confiscated a sculpture titled ‘The Last Pedophile’ from an art festival. (KOAT-TV)

Also in the L.A. Times: Conductor James Conlon has extended his contract with L.A. Opera through the 2012-13 season; music critic Mark Swed on composer Henryk Górecki, who died last week.

-- David Ng

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