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To receive Morning Links<\/strong> in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews<\/strong> newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n CRANACH CONFUSION<\/strong>. The Norton Simon Museum<\/strong> in Pasadena, California, countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles<\/strong> on Wednesday, following the latter\u2019s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach <\/strong>diptych, Adam and Eve<\/em>, made around 1530, in the museum\u2019s collection, reports Courthouse News Service<\/em><\/strong>. The museum argues a previous federal lawsuit in its favor should override the Jewish Federation\u2019s new attempt to assert ownership using a new California law allowing residents to revisit failed legal attempts to recuperate Nazi-looted art. The museum\u2019s complaint states that \u201cthe finality of the prior von Saher<\/em>judgment is beyond dispute \u2026 this court found on the merits that the museum was the sole owner of the Cranachs.\u201d<\/p>\n FACING UP. <\/strong>The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/strong> has selected artist Danh V\u00f5<\/strong> for its 2027 Genesis Fa\u00e7ade Commission<\/strong>, reports ArtAsiaPacific<\/em><\/strong>. This will be the fourth presentation installed on the museum\u2019s 5th Avenue Beaux-Arts fa\u00e7ade, and the Vietnamese-born artist plans to exhibit four sculptures. \u201cA fa\u00e7ade is the place where the museum meets the street, and it is also an expression of its values over time,\u201d V\u00f5 said in a statement. In addition, the Norwegian Congolese artist Sandra Mujinga<\/strong> was chosen to make a site-specific installation for the Met\u2019s 2027 Great Hall Commission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Biennale Jogja Foundation<\/strong> in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing its operations after 16 years of overseeing the Biennale Jogja, due to \u201ca political regime\u201d amid \u201cchaotic economic and political policies, increasing censorship, and violence against activists and protesters.\u201d [ArtAsiaPacific]<\/p>\n \n\tThree years after it was removed, plans are in the works to return a restored 1914 Confederate memorial to Arlington National Cemetery<\/strong>, which includes the figure of a Black woman holding the child of a white officer and a slave following his owner to war. [NBC]<\/p>\n \n\tThe opening of the Centre Pompidou Paran\u00e1<\/strong> in southern Brazil has been delayed again amid a local government shift and is now expected to open in 2029. [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n \n\tAustralia has returned a 14,000-year-old carved stone slab to Jordan that was found in Wadi Al Hammah and taken to the National Gallery of Australia<\/strong> in 1985. [Menafn]<\/p>\n Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza<\/strong>, the Spanish Baroness whose family\u2019s private collection is exhibited in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum<\/strong> in Madrid, is bringing to auction a 1944 painting of a sailboat at sea by Edward Hopper<\/strong> on November 18 at Sotheby\u2019s<\/strong> in New York, with a high estimate of $30 million. [El Pais]<\/p>\n Rubaiya Qatar<\/strong>, the new quadrennial on vie November 21 to April 30 in Doha, has revealed the full list of participating artists, who number over 120. [ArtReview]<\/p>\n DEALING WITH DISASTER<\/strong>. William Kentridge<\/strong> talks to Ocula<\/em><\/strong> as his latest film premieres at London\u2019s Goodman Gallery.<\/strong>Titled A Nicely Built City (Never Resists Destruction)<\/em>, the stop-animation film is accompanied by an exhibition of artworks. It looks at Johannesburg\u2019s industrial transformation, and how wilderness returns to the city as its center collapses. Asked about using humor in his films, alongside the political weight of their subjects, Kentridge responded: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a contradiction between the serious and the light, and how the one illuminates the other. I think the category of the absurd is also important. Tragedy isn\u2019t a good way of dealing with social disaster. Comedy may be closer, but the category of the absurd, which can move between the two, is central.\u201d Read on to learn Kentridge\u2019s thoughts on Anselm Kiefer<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cfantastic woodcuts,\u201d the \u201cpoetic and politically powerful\u201d art of Alfredo Jaar<\/strong>, his own studio process, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/morning-links-october-16-norton-simon-museum-1234802810\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-1.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter\u2019s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection. 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