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Forget the turning of the leaves in Hibiya Park - the real sight to behold in Tokyo this autumn will be German Contemporary Photography. Running from Oct. 25 to Dec. 18 at Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art (momat.go.jp), this sweeping exhibition comprises work shot over 40 years by a remarkably diverse group of photographers. One common theme is Germany's sudden rise (and subsequent decline) as an industrial power; look out for the grim, 1960s factory pictures by Bernd and Hilla Becher (the oldest work on show) or the disturbing aridity of Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals...
...Fogg Museum staff quickly removed the large portraits from the centrally located Thompson Room, according to Sandra K. Grindlay, curator of Harvard’s portrait collection, who was overseeing their reinstallation yesterday morning...
...village even has its own truffle museum located in a medieval castle, with cross-vaulted ceilings and 16th century fresco remnants. The Museo del Tartufo tells the fascinating tale of the native, intensely pungent magnatum pico, or white truffle, which, together with other prestigious truffles such as the black P?rigord, were historically reviled as a tool of witchcraft and sought after by the Romans as an aphrodisiac. Flat screens show mini-documentaries about dog-training methods that prime canines to sniff out the prestigious white truffle; some trainers introduce the fungus to puppies by rubbing it on the mother...
...blossom-filled orchards. Out of the 5 million hectoliters of cider produced in Britain each year, more than 65% comes from Herefordshire. "If you take the apple out of Herefordshire, you take away its economy, its character, its heart," says Margaret Thompson, director of the Hereford Cider Museum. On Oct. 15-16, over 1,000 people are expected to descend on the museum, a kilometer west of the city center (tel: [44-1432] 354207; www.cidermuseum.co.uk), for a festival at which visitors can taste up to 40 varieties of the alcoholic drink, ranging from finer, bottle-fermented sparkling cider...
...star, who dyed his golden locks to play the dark outlaw. The Sun's rival, the Calgary Herald, set up a hotline for tipsters to call in their Pitt sightings. The Herald updates readers almost daily on Pitt's outings, such as a trip to a local dinosaur museum with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie and her two children. The good news is, Canadians haven't had to read about Avril Lavigne in weeks...