News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- Originally, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s edgy and undeniably cool architectural marvel at Seattle Center was known as Experience Music Project. Now the Frank Gehry-designed masterpiece has undergone a name change — its fifth — and has been re-christened the Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP. [Read more from the Seattle Times]
- Bidding will start at $3.8 million – yes, you read that right – for 12 video tapes of Beyonce at age 10, working with the pre-Destiny’s Child group called Girls Tyme. The auction house handling the videos says the rare images “have never been seen by the public.” [Read more from InStyle]
- A hand-colored scroll titled Five Drunken Kings Return on Horses has set a record as the most expensive Chinese artwork sold this year. The painting was purchased at a Beijing auction for $44 million. [Read more from China.org]
- Known as the “Queen of Technicolor,” actress Maureen O’Hara was born in Dublin, Ireland. No surprise, then, that much of the interest in O’Hara’s estate items auctioned by Bonhams came from the Emerald Isle. [Read more from the Irish Times]
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