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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Not unlike the sudden appearance of the cicada, a buzzing critical mass of art-world players burst out of hibernation last Saturday night in the South of France, making for one of the first major international, in-person art happenings since pandemic restrictions started to ease. They surfaced at the behest of Swiss philanthropist Maja Hoffmann, an heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals billions, to celebrate the completion of Luma Arles, her 27-acre creative campus in the city of Arles. The gestation really did take about as long as the cicadas. In 2004 Hoffmann established the Luma Foundationâa nonprofit dedicated to art as well as the environment, human rights, and education. The next year, Hoffmann appointed ....