Alaska composer John Luther Adams ― not to be confused with “Nixon in China” composer John Adams ― has staged outdoor-percussion extravaganzas (“Inuksuit”), created sound-and-light installations triggered by atmospheric phenomena (“The Place Where You Go to Listen” at Fairbanks’ Museum of the North) and blended electronics with live instruments (“The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies”).But he doesn’t often get a chance to work with a full-scale orchestra. That’s why he is as thrilled about the Seat

WILMINGTON, Delaware ― His garden stroll with Adolf Hitler left Alfred Rosenberg invigorated.Rosenberg was already one of the most notorious and powerful Nazis, chief architect of ethnic cleansing policies and the man responsible for plundering billions of dollars of art from European Jews.At the meeting in April 1941, Hitler spoke of a larger role. “Your hour has come,” he said, according to an account Rosenberg scrawled in his diary.For nearly 70 years, the infamous diary, an unprecedented ins

PARIS (AP) ― A state-funded museum in Paris is causing outrage among France’s Jewish community for staging a photo exhibition that calls Palestinian suicide bombers “martyrs.’’The exhibit, entitled “Death’’ by Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli, features dozens of intimate and often disturbing portraits of Palestinian suicide bombers with anti-Israeli captions that glorify their deaths. Among the works at the Jeu de Paume museum are shots of suicide bombers from the controversial Al Aqsa Mart

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― A rare copy of the comic book featuring Superman’s first appearance that went undiscovered for over 70 years in the insulation of a house has sold for $175,000.The high bidder for the copy of Action Comics No. 1 in the online auction was a “hard core, golden age comic book collector,’’ Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com, said Tuesday. The buyer’s name was not released. Fifty-one offers were submitted before bidding closed Monday night.But Fishler said the buyer had been