The Paris Opera production of “Ercole Amante” (“Hercules in Love”), a rediscovered 1707 work by the female composer Antonia Bembo, leans into contemporary themes of coercion and consent.

Four decades after the conceptual artist Christo draped the Pont Neuf with fabric, JR, a French street artist, offers his own trick of the eye.

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