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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n HEAR, HEAR<\/strong>. The HEAR Act<\/strong>\u00a0was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times.<\/em> The bipartisan bill is designed to make it easier to restitute Nazi-looted artworks by extending the original 2016 act, which expires later this year. However, new amendments to the bill have some worried that it goes too far, making it hard for current owners of potentially looted artworks to fairly defend themselves. Notably, the bill states that looted art should be considered a violation of international law, giving the US legal system jurisdiction in foreign cases. But others see this change as a boon. \u201cIt would be a tremendous development,\u201d said Nicholas O\u2019Donnell<\/strong>, who represented the heirs of the disputed Guelph Treasure<\/strong> case.<\/p>\n HOCKNEY\u2019S\u00a0NIGHT AT THE OPERA<\/strong>. Who says opera is not alive and well? David Hockney<\/strong> is turning Tate Modern\u2019s Turbine Hall<\/strong> into a giant, immersive opera house, reports the Guardian<\/em>. Hockney\u2019s set designs for works by Mozart, Wagner, and Stravinsky, which he made in the 1970s, will fill the museum\u2019s huge space in celebration of the British artist\u2019s 90th\u00a0birthday in 2027. \u201cI wanted to design operas because I want to have something to look at,\u201d Hockney said. The rest of the Tate\u2019s 2027 program was also announced and includes several highlights, from a Sonia Boyce<\/strong> retrospective and\u00a0Edvard Munch<\/strong> show, to the Tate Modern hosting Claude Monet<\/strong> paintings for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n Restorers have discovered a hidden\u00a0El Greco<\/strong> painting underneath a forged artwork that had been hanging in the Vatican<\/strong> for decades. El Greco\u2019s small oil painting of a Christ figure titled The Redeemer<\/em> dates to the 1590s and is now on view in an exhibition of just two artworks titled \u201cEl Greco in the Mirror: Two Paintings in Dialogue.\u201d [Artnet News]<\/p>\n \n\tAs Art Basel Hong Kong<\/strong> approaches, reporter Melanie Gerlis takes the region\u2019s market temperature and asks whether it is slowly bouncing back as galleries adapt to more conservative tastes for older or deceased artists. [Financial Times]<\/p>\n \n\tResearchers have confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria <\/strong>on the Tigris in Iraq, founded by Alexander the Great <\/strong>(356 BCE-323 BCE). [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Prado Museum<\/strong> is reducing the max number of visitors per group from 30 to 20 to achieve \u201ca better quality of visit.\u201d Group visits make up nearly 17 percent of the museum attendees, but \u201cvisiting the museum can\u2019t be like riding the subway at rush hour,\u201d said Prado Museum director Miguel Falomir<\/strong>. [El Pais]<\/p>\n \n\tHong Kong\u2019s artist-founded Para Site<\/strong> art space has appointed James Taylor-Foster<\/strong> as its new director. The curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes and Moderna Museet in Stockholm succeeds Billy Tang<\/strong>, who departed in May 2025. [ArtAsiaPacific]<\/p>\n \n\tArtist Jitish Kallat<\/strong> will be the next president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale<\/strong> in 2027. [Artforum]<\/p>\n The Kicker <\/strong><\/p>\n CAMERAS ON CUBA<\/strong>. French-Chinese photographer Lucien Lung<\/strong> spent some time in Cuba this winter, capturing striking portraits of life in the country, which has been reeling from a humanitarian crisis caused by low fuel supplies. Many of his images are printed in a new piece for Le Monde<\/em>, in which Lung also talks about his experience in the country, where he felt \u201chope is not at all the same\u201d as it once was. Now, faced with a nationwide blackout, Cuban officials said they plan to announce that the Communist country will open to foreign investment, including from the US. Whatever hope that may have spurred was not likely helped when President Trump<\/strong> responded by saying that given Cuba\u2019s weakened state, he could \u201ctake\u201d the country and \u201ccan do anything I want with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/congress-adopts-hear-act-hockney-to-celebrate-90th-birthday-at-tate-moderns-turbine-hall-morning-links-for-march-17-2026-1234777602\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-12.47.39-PM.png?w=766″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act\u00a0was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. 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