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#ArtnetNews: In the late 1920s, Eleanora Fagan left Baltimore for New York City, singing to dive bars in the outer boroughs. Within a couple of years, she had changed her name to Billie Holiday and was cutting jazz records with the likes of Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman.

Now, the borough of Queens, which heard Holiday’s haunting voice early on and became her on-and-off home in the 1950s, is commissioning a public monument to the singer outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (@jamaicaartscenter).

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Article by Richard Whiddington (@writerprofile)

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Pictured: Nekisha Durrett (@nekishadurrett), Bending the Note artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Nikesha Breeze (@nikeshabreeze), Lady Sings the Truth: A Monument to Billie Holiday artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Thomas J. Price (@thomasjprice__), Held Within artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tanda Francis (@tandafrancis), Blood at the Root artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

#ArtnetNews: In the late 1920s, Eleanora Fagan left Baltimore for New York City, singing to dive bars in the outer boroughs. Within a couple of years, she had changed her name to Billie Holiday and was cutting jazz records with the likes of Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman.

Now, the borough of Queens, which heard Holiday’s haunting voice early on and became her on-and-off home in the 1950s, is commissioning a public monument to the singer outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (@jamaicaartscenter).

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Richard Whiddington (@writerprofile)

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Pictured: Nekisha Durrett (@nekishadurrett), Bending the Note artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Nikesha Breeze (@nikeshabreeze), Lady Sings the Truth: A Monument to Billie Holiday artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Thomas J. Price (@thomasjprice__), Held Within artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tanda Francis (@tandafrancis), Blood at the Root artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

#ArtnetNews: In the late 1920s, Eleanora Fagan left Baltimore for New York City, singing to dive bars in the outer boroughs. Within a couple of years, she had changed her name to Billie Holiday and was cutting jazz records with the likes of Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman.

Now, the borough of Queens, which heard Holiday’s haunting voice early on and became her on-and-off home in the 1950s, is commissioning a public monument to the singer outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (@jamaicaartscenter).

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Richard Whiddington (@writerprofile)

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Pictured: Nekisha Durrett (@nekishadurrett), Bending the Note artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Nikesha Breeze (@nikeshabreeze), Lady Sings the Truth: A Monument to Billie Holiday artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Thomas J. Price (@thomasjprice__), Held Within artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tanda Francis (@tandafrancis), Blood at the Root artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

#ArtnetNews: In the late 1920s, Eleanora Fagan left Baltimore for New York City, singing to dive bars in the outer boroughs. Within a couple of years, she had changed her name to Billie Holiday and was cutting jazz records with the likes of Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman.

Now, the borough of Queens, which heard Holiday’s haunting voice early on and became her on-and-off home in the 1950s, is commissioning a public monument to the singer outside the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (@jamaicaartscenter).

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Richard Whiddington (@writerprofile)

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Pictured: Nekisha Durrett (@nekishadurrett), Bending the Note artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Nikesha Breeze (@nikeshabreeze), Lady Sings the Truth: A Monument to Billie Holiday artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Thomas J. Price (@thomasjprice__), Held Within artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tanda Francis (@tandafrancis), Blood at the Root artwork proposal. Photo courtesy of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

#ArtnetNews: In 2020, Egyptian archaeologists discovered the lost “golden city” of Aten—built under King Tutankhamun’s grandfather Amenhotep III in the late 1300s B.C.E. then abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten.

“I don’t think you can oversell it,” Salima Ikram, the head of the American University in Cairo’s Egyptology unit, said as crews announced the discovery. “It is mind-blowing.” This summer, dozens of relics unearthed there will debut to American fans in the show “Treasures of the Pharaohs” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (@deyoungmuseum).

The exhibition made its global premier in Rome last November. All of its offerings are on loan from Egypt’s storied institutions, like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum. The country’s famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass wrote the catalog.

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Article by Vittoria Benzine (@vittoriabenzine)

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Pictured: Outer anthropoid coffin from the Thuya Dynasty 18 (1386 to 1349 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Armchair of Princess Sitamun, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1391-1353 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Pectoral pendant of Amenemope (1000 – 991 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

#ArtnetNews: In 2020, Egyptian archaeologists discovered the lost “golden city” of Aten—built under King Tutankhamun’s grandfather Amenhotep III in the late 1300s B.C.E. then abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten.

“I don’t think you can oversell it,” Salima Ikram, the head of the American University in Cairo’s Egyptology unit, said as crews announced the discovery. “It is mind-blowing.” This summer, dozens of relics unearthed there will debut to American fans in the show “Treasures of the Pharaohs” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (@deyoungmuseum).

The exhibition made its global premier in Rome last November. All of its offerings are on loan from Egypt’s storied institutions, like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum. The country’s famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass wrote the catalog.

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Vittoria Benzine (@vittoriabenzine)

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Pictured: Outer anthropoid coffin from the Thuya Dynasty 18 (1386 to 1349 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Armchair of Princess Sitamun, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1391-1353 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Pectoral pendant of Amenemope (1000 – 991 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

#ArtnetNews: In 2020, Egyptian archaeologists discovered the lost “golden city” of Aten—built under King Tutankhamun’s grandfather Amenhotep III in the late 1300s B.C.E. then abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten.

“I don’t think you can oversell it,” Salima Ikram, the head of the American University in Cairo’s Egyptology unit, said as crews announced the discovery. “It is mind-blowing.” This summer, dozens of relics unearthed there will debut to American fans in the show “Treasures of the Pharaohs” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco (@deyoungmuseum).

The exhibition made its global premier in Rome last November. All of its offerings are on loan from Egypt’s storied institutions, like the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Luxor Museum. The country’s famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass wrote the catalog.

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Vittoria Benzine (@vittoriabenzine)

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Pictured: Outer anthropoid coffin from the Thuya Dynasty 18 (1386 to 1349 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Armchair of Princess Sitamun, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1391-1353 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Pectoral pendant of Amenemope (1000 – 991 B.C.E.) Photo by Massimo Listri, courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

#ArtnetNews: Less than four months remain until the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry goes on view in its homeland for the first time in nearly a millennium—a historic loan that has nonetheless stirred up controversy. Now, London’s British Museum has unveiled just how it plans to display the UNESCO-designated relic within its walls.

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Article by Vittoria Benzine (@vittoriabenzine)

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Pictured: Part of the Bayeux Tapestry. Photo by Antoine Cazin © La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, courtesy of the British Museum.
Early concept visualization by Opera Amsterdam. Photo © Trustees of The British Museum, courtesy of the British Museum

#ArtnetNews: Less than four months remain until the nearly 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry goes on view in its homeland for the first time in nearly a millennium—a historic loan that has nonetheless stirred up controversy. Now, London’s British Museum has unveiled just how it plans to display the UNESCO-designated relic within its walls.

Tap the link in bio to read more.

Article by Vittoria Benzine (@vittoriabenzine)

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Pictured: Part of the Bayeux Tapestry. Photo by Antoine Cazin © La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, courtesy of the British Museum.
Early concept visualization by Opera Amsterdam. Photo © Trustees of The British Museum, courtesy of the British Museum

#ArtnetNews: Sotheby’s sold $303.9 million worth of modern art in New York on Tuesday, in a solid if lackluster affair that included an auction record for a painted bottle.

Titled 'Femme-bouteille', the bottle in question was painted by René Magritte in 1955 with a female nude across its surface. The work was part of the collection of Sybil Shainwald, a female health lawyer who died last year.

It was one of the more unusual objects in the auction, which was led by more traditional works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh.

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Article by Katya Kazakina (@katyakaz)

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Pictured: Vincent van Gogh's La Moisson en Provence (1888) sold for $29.4 million on an estimate of $25 million to $35 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
Pablo Picasso’s Arlequin (Buste), 1909, sold for $42.6 million. Courtesy Sotheby’s.

#ArtnetNews: Sotheby’s sold $303.9 million worth of modern art in New York on Tuesday, in a solid if lackluster affair that included an auction record for a painted bottle.

Titled 'Femme-bouteille', the bottle in question was painted by René Magritte in 1955 with a female nude across its surface. The work was part of the collection of Sybil Shainwald, a female health lawyer who died last year.

It was one of the more unusual objects in the auction, which was led by more traditional works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh.

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Article by Katya Kazakina (@katyakaz)

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Pictured: Vincent van Gogh's La Moisson en Provence (1888) sold for $29.4 million on an estimate of $25 million to $35 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
Pablo Picasso’s Arlequin (Buste), 1909, sold for $42.6 million. Courtesy Sotheby’s.

#ArtnetNews: A landmark expansion of the Louvre is one step closer to becoming a reality today, as the Paris museum announced an international team of architects to realize its ambitions.

New York’s Selldorf Architects will team up with Studios Architecture Paris to see through the project, which has been dubbed the “Nouvelle Renaissance.” Estimated to cost in excess of €1 billion ($1.2 billion), it is intended to address a host of problems facing the embattled museum, including crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding, and insufficient security. Still, the project’s budget remains uncertain as the Louvre must either overcome a significant funding shortfall or reassess its ambitions.

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Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred

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Pictured: A rendering of new planned exterior of the Louvre. Image courtesy STUDIOS Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects.

#ArtnetNews: Jackson Pollock’s "Number 7A" (1948) sold for $181.2 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new auction record for the giant of Abstract Expressionism. Pollock is now in an exclusive club of 13 artists whose auction prices have surpassed $100 million.

It came from the collection of media magnate S.I. Newhouse, who died in 2017. The painting had been estimated at $100 million. Christie’s heralded it as the last “drip” painting in private hands.

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Article by Katya Kazakina

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Pictured: Jackson Pollock, Number 7A (1948). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd.

#ArtnetNews: The big auction season has officially begun! On Thursday evening, May 14, Sotheby’s sold $433 million of art, including an 11-lot group from the late New York dealer Bob Mnuchin‘s collection, led by a fiery $86 million Mark Rothko painting.

The big three houses are offering $1.8 billion worth of art by low estimate, a 50 percent jump from the $1.2 billion they anticipated last year. (They fell short of that, totaling only $1 billion before fees.) Driving the change are consignments from the estates of key art world figures like Mnuchin, philanthropist Agnes Gund, and dealer Marian Goodman.

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Article by Katya Kazakina

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Pictured: Sotheby's day sale of 20th-century art on Friday. Courtesy of Sotheby's

#ArtnetNews: Nicole Kidman and Constantin Brancusi—now that’s an unexpected pair.

The award-winning actor appears in a new Christie’s ad promoting the upcoming auction of a sculpture by Brancusi from the late media mogul S.I. Newhouse‘s collection. Titled "Danaïde" (1913), the bronze head will be offered for sale with the potentially record-setting estimate of $100 million on May 18 in New York. Newhouse bought it for $18.2 million in 2002, the highest price for a sculpture at the time.

Christie’s released the ad on its website, YouTube channel, and Instagram. The nearly two-minute film, produced by Studio 11F, opens with the actor striding into the auction house’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in a pair of Louboutin stilettos and taking the elevator to a private viewing room where Danaïde awaits on a pedestal behind a wall of white curtains.

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Article by Katya Kazakina

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Pictured: Nicole Kidman with Constantin Brancusi's "Danaïde" (c. 1913). Photo: Hunter Abrams, courtesy of Christie's.

#ArtnetNews: Of the more than 200,000 artworks in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, few depict ordinary people. The British artist Es Devlin is addressing the oversight.

In a project set to run through October 27, the set designer and contemporary artist is inviting all 69 million U.K. residents to take part in a collective portrait of the nation. Participating is relatively straightforward: people simply upload a selfie to a dedicated page and then watch as their face morphs into the charcoal and chalk markings of a Devlin drawing.

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Article by Richard Whiddington

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Pictured: Es Devlin in her studio considering the markings in a digital portrait. Photo: courtesy Google Arts & Culture Lab.

#TheArtAnglePodcast:This week on the podcast, Los Angeles has a new museum. Or a new vision for an old one. One of the most important museums in the country, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has just debuted a long-awaited new building.

It’s designed by the revered Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. It cost three quarters of a billion dollars to realize. And long before it opened to the public last month, it has been controversial, for a whole host of reasons. It debuts with LACMA’s charismatic director Michael Govan promising not just a new LACMA, but a new vision for how museums show art and relate to the public.

Ben Davis went out to Los Angeles to see the new building last month, and spoke to culture critic Carolina Miranda.

Miranda has the gift of being both a sharp observer or L.A. art and a gifted translator of sometimes esoteric museum and architecture debate. She has published an analysis of Zumthor and Govan’s vision means for CityLab, called “For Better or Worse, the New LACMA Is an Instant LA Icon,” and she is here with me today to talk about what LACMA means for the city and for museums now.

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#ArtnetNews: In 2002, Lucian Freud unveiled a surprising portrait: a full-length work of a naked and pregnant Kate Moss splayed out on a narrow cot, executed with an unflinching intensity. Freud rarely painted celebrities—he famously turned down Princess Diana—but had made an exception for Moss. Even more unexpected, though, was the unlikely friendship that blossomed between the elder artist and the supermodel.

That bond sits at the center of Moss & Freud, a new film that dramatizes how the pair brought "Naked Portrait" (2002) into the world. It’s the first feature from British director and screenwriter James Lucas, who landed an Academy Award for his 2013 short film The Phone Call. As a partaker in the East London scene of the early 2000s, Lucas remembered being intrigued when he first learned about the portrait session.

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Article by Min Chen (@objectsofloathing)

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Pictured: Lucian Freud and Kate Moss in North London, 2003. Photo: Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images.

#ArtnetNews: A major Mark Rothko painting from the collection of the legendary New York financier and dealer Robert Mnuchin hammered at $74 million at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday night. With fees, it totaled $85.8 million.

"Brown and Blacks in Reds" (1957) was estimated at $70 million to $100 million and offered in an 11-lot sale dedicated to material from Mnuchin's collection, ahead of the auction house's the Now and Contemporary art evening auction. The investment banker-turned-gallerist died in December, aged 92.

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Article by Article by Margaret Carrigan (@reallifemaggie)
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Pictured: Mark Rothko, "Brown and Blacks in Reds" (1957). Courtesy of Sotheby's.