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Economy "curse" hurts King Tut attendance at Dallas museum

By Ben Morales-Correa

When King Tut rolled into town in October, Bonnie Pitman, the new director of the Dallas Museum of Art, predicted that 1 million visitors would see the show, with ticket buyers traveling from hundreds, even thousands of miles away. But neither Ms. Pitman nor the international promoters of “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of... »



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