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Congress Adopts HEAR Act, Hockney to Celebrate 90th Birthday at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall: Morning Links for March 17, 2026

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the HEAR Act, a bipartisan bill designed to extend and strengthen laws for the restitution of Nazi-looted art. The bill's new amendments, which declare looted art a violation of international law and expand U.S. jurisdiction, have drawn both praise for aiding restitution and concern over potentially unfair burdens on current owners.

Tate Modern announced its 2027 program, headlined by a major David Hockney exhibition in the Turbine Hall featuring his 1970s opera set designs to celebrate his 90th birthday. The program also includes a Sonia Boyce retrospective, an Edvard Munch show, and the museum's first-ever display of Claude Monet paintings, signaling a blockbuster year for the institution.