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Thu 08 Aug 2008Italian arts minister takes potshot at . . . the arts
ITALY:MODERN ART, modern architecture, or even documentary films on the Red Brigades - it matters not which - have all fallen foul of Italian arts minister Sandro Bondi.
The minister, one of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's closest political advisers, has provoked both dismay and approval with his outspoken comments on a variety of cultural matters in recent days.
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