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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 \n\tGood Morning!<\/p>\n WE THE LUCKY FEW?<\/strong>\u00a0Billionaire\u00a0Ken Griffin<\/strong>\u00a0is officially the owner of the only two known surviving copies of the\u00a0US Constitution\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0private hands, reports the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0. On Monday, Griffin announced that he had acquired an original print of the document via a private sale for an undisclosed amount, and that he would exhibit it in New York for the country\u2019s 250th\u00a0anniversary. Griffin famously paid $43.2 million in 2021 for another first printing of the Constitution, setting a record for the highest auction sale in that category. The first copy he purchased is on view at the\u00a0National Constitution Center\u00a0<\/strong>in Philadelphia, and the second is scheduled to be exhibited as part of a broader show about American history at the\u00a0South Street Seaport Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Manhattan, starting May 27. Only 14 official copies of the Constitution made in 1787 are known to have survived, making them extremely rare. \u201cThe Constitution is far more than a founding document\u2014it is one of humanity\u2019s greatest achievements and a testament to the promise of America,\u201d Griffin said. A close reading would do us all well.<\/p>\n GETTING ORGANIZED<\/strong>. A union for the\u00a0John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong>\u00a0has accused the institution of unfair labor practices in a complaint that it filed on Monday, reports the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>. In federal unfair-labor-practice charges filed with the\u00a0National Labor Relations Board<\/strong>, the\u00a0International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees\u00a0<\/strong>(IATSE)\u00a0accused the center of unlawfully firing dozens of employees and using a contested plan to close for renovations as a false pretense for slashing jobs. \u201cThis is not a normal closure-related layoff,\u201d said\u00a0Matthew D. Loeb<\/strong>, president of the IATSE.\u00a0Donald<\/strong>\u00a0Trump<\/strong>\u00a0previously announced that the center would close for two years on July 4\u00a0for major renovations, but those plans have also been\u00a0challenged\u00a0by two lawsuits alleging that this is an attempt to save face after Trump\u2019s actions caused ticket sales to plunge and artists to cancel events.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tArtist\u00a0Anish Kapoor<\/strong>\u00a0said the US should be boycotted from the Venice Biennale because of the government\u2019s \u201cabhorrent politics of hate\u201d and \u201cincessant warmongering.\u201d [The Guardian]<\/p>\n \n\tAfter it took legal action to demand more state funding for a planned renovation, the\u00a0Van Gogh Museum<\/strong>\u00a0is in mediation talks with the Dutch government over public financing. [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay<\/strong>\u00a0has inaugurated a new gallery space dedicated to Nazi-looted artworks in its possession\u2014known as \u201corphans\u201d because their rightful owners are unknown\u2014following their return to France from Germany by Allied forces. [Le Figaro and AFP]<\/p>\n Amy Sherald<\/strong>\u00a0brought her\u00a0Outwin Boochever Prize<\/strong>\u2013winning paintings to life at the\u00a0Met Gala<\/strong>\u00a0yesterday when she dressed as the little girl in her 2014 painting\u00a0Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)<\/em>. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Holocaust Museum LA\u00a0<\/strong>will reopen on June 14, following a 10-month closure and a $70 million expansion as part of the\u00a0Goldrich Cultural Center<\/strong>, which includes the broadening of its programming on inclusion and community, as well as the doubling of its footprint. [The Los Angeles Times]<\/p>\n \n\tThe artist\u00a0Bracha L. Ettinger<\/strong>\u00a0has installed a \u201cshared psychic\u201d exhibition space until May 10, curated by\u00a0Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev<\/strong>, and brought to life with her ghostly paintings in violets and reds, overflowing piles of seashells, thistles, sketchbooks and writings, all in the same small Hotel Metropole room in Venice where\u00a0Sigmund Freud<\/strong>\u00a0wrote\u00a0The Interpretation of Dreams<\/em>. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n SECOND LIVES<\/strong>. The Milan-born star curator\u00a0Cecilia Alemani<\/strong>\u00a0wowed the art world with her 2022\u00a0Venice Biennale<\/strong>, \u201cThe Milk of Dreams,\u201d and last year drew accolades for her curation of\u00a0Site Santa Fe<\/strong>. But as the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0reports, her \u201cheart is with the\u00a0High Line\u00a0<\/strong>,\u201d in New York City, where the artworks are loved or hated by whoever happens by the art-filled public walkway. \u201cThey might be provoked, they might be challenged, they might be inspired, but there\u2019s always an active relationship,\u201d she said. \u201cIn museums, the encounter is more prescriptive.\u201d The recently installed Buddha sculpture by\u00a0Tuan Andrew Nguyen<\/strong>\u00a0has replaced a beloved, giant pigeon titled\u00a0Dinosaur<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Iv\u00e1n Argote<\/strong>, which will be sorely missed by fans. \u201cMaybe they can think of [the new sculpture] as a reincarnation,\u201d Alemani said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/ken-griffin-constitution-kennedy-center-morning-links-1234783953\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1438115177.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. 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