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PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Smoke resembling the flag of Team France is shown over Pont d’Austerlitz during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images)

New Aspen Art Fair Opens, the World’s Best Art Destinations, Paris Olympics Fail to Reconcile France, and More: Morning Links for July 30, 2024

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES HITS DON’T LIE. If the Olympics opening ceremony, which tended to promote cultural diversity and inclusion, seems to have conquered the hearts of most people and papers, The Art Newspaper sees it as proof that France is actually fractured. In light of …

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Visitors queue under the Eiffel Tower to enter, on the day of its reopening after a strike, in Paris on February 25, 2024. The Eiffel Tower, closed for five days due to a strike, reopens on February 25, 2024 following an agreement between the unions and the Paris monument's operating company, the latter announced on Saturday. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Eiffel Tower Reopens After Strike, but Losses Mount to Millions

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The Eiffel Tower has reopened its iconic lattice structure to visitors after a six-day strike by employees, marking an end to a tumultuous period marred by demands for changes to the landmark’s business model and concerns over its maintenance. However, the strike has left a financial toll, with losses mounting to as much as 2 …

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Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future

Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future

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BERLIN and PARIS — In recent years, impending ecological apocalypse has spurred a number of contemporary artists to visualize fears of an environmental collapse. Yet it’s also inspired artists to imagine post-apocalyptic futures. British artist Emma Talbot and American artist Dana Schutz address the subject of societal, ecological meltdown in their recent shows, organized respectively …

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