Pinocchio, Mendacious Boy Puppet, Plunges to Death at Museum
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Pinocchio, the Italian boy puppet who was the subject of a 1940 Walt Disney movie about his early life, died yesterday morning after falling from an upper floor of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Police have not determined whether the death was a suicide, homicide, or accident.
Pinocchio’s body was found by Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim, who discovered it floating in the fountain of the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda hours before the opening celebration for thanyspacewhatever, a group exhibition of installations by ten artists who emerged during the early 1990s.
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