Wednesday’s Art Notes

For the ninth installment of MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series, artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla present ‘Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano.’ The artists carved a hole in the center of a grand piano, through which a pianist plays the famous Fourth Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Photo by Dario Cantatore/Getty Images.

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A person taking a stroll along the beach in Ashkelon, Israel, discovered an ancient Roman statue of a woman that had been unearthed just hours before, when a violent storm caused a cliff on the coast to collapse, via ARTINFO.

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Enrique Morente, one of the world’s most celebrated flamenco singers, died on Monday in a Madrid hospital. He was 67. According to reports in the European news media, Morente died as a result of complications of surgery he underwent earlier this month, via the New York Times.

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Mark Zuckerberg is TIME’S Person of the Year.

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Philadelphia collector, artist and philanthropist Linda Lee Alter has donated about 400 works from her collection of art by women — including Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Alice Neel and Nancy Spero — to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, via the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Will Art Stage Singapore help establish the city-state as a destination in the art world? The Wall Street Journal looks at the inaugural event.

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Prosecutors say actor Rip Torn has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from allegations he broke into a Connecticut bank while drunk and armed, via the Associated Press.