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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tGood Morning!<\/p>\n BEST KEPT SECRET<\/strong>. According to multiple sources speaking to\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>, Sotheby\u2019s recent, and apparently\u00a0first serious attempt<\/strong>\u00a0at a private, or \u201csecret,\u201d auction couldn\u2019t get off the ground. With an unusual degree of secrecy, the New York auction house organized a sale early last week of Pace founder\u00a0Arne Glimcher<\/strong>\u2018s monumental\u00a0Jackson Pollock<\/strong>\u00a0painting,\u00a0Number 19, 1951<\/em>, measuring nearly five feet tall and four feet wide, estimated at $50 million. But as\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0Daniel Cassady<\/strong>\u00a0writes, \u201cif the plan was to make sure nobody noticed, it worked remarkably well.\u201d The auction was ultimately called off after Sotheby\u2019s couldn\u2019t find enough bidders. Since the Covid-19 pandemic,\u00a0Christie\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0has developed the private, or secret, auction format for top works that owners don\u2019t want to expose to the scrutiny of traditional evening sales.<\/p>\n \u201cGOOD HELLO\u201d TO RUSSIA.\u00a0<\/strong>On Friday,\u00a0Rodney Mims Cook Jr.<\/strong>, the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, spoke at a major economic forum hosted by Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0<\/strong>in St. Petersburg, becoming the first US official to attend the event in nearly a decade, according to reports. Dubbed the \u201cRussian Davos,\u201d the\u00a0St. Petersburg International Economic Forum<\/strong>\u00a0(SPIEF) is designed to attract foreign investment but has seen a drop in attendance from high-profile Western leaders since Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Cook led a US delegation to the forum and spoke during Friday\u2019s plenary session. \u201cYou have a beautiful hometown,\u201d Cook told Putin, according to\u00a0Reuters<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cI do give a good hello from your friend, President Trump.\u201d On Thursday, Cook also attended a roundtable titled \u201cRussia-USA: Dialogue of Cultures,\u201d moderated by Russian cultural envoy\u00a0Mikhail Shvydkoy<\/strong>, who was also key in orchestrating Russia\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s Venice Biennale, the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/strong>. Among the speakers was also US actor\u00a0Steven Seagal, whom the Russian Foreign Ministry appointed as a special envoy for Russian-American \u201chumanitarian relations\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n \n\tAt this month\u2019s London auctions, Sotheby\u2019s will offer\u00a0Amedeo Modigliani<\/strong>\u2018s\u00a0Nu assis au collier<\/em>\u00a0(Seated Nude with Necklace), 1917, a rare piece from the artist\u2019s December 1917 exhibition that police shuttered for indecency, estimated at $60.6 million.\u00a0[Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tAustrian photographer\u00a0Elfie Semotan<\/strong>\u00a0has died at age 84.\u00a0[Monopol<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Leonardo da Vinci<\/strong>\u2018s scattered drawings, designs, and loose notes on paper are being united for the first time digitally.\u00a0[Times of London<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tOn June 5, France\u2019s Conseil d\u2019\u00c9tat, its highest administrative court, rejected a request by a heritage group to cancel plans to loan the Bayeux Tapestry to London\u2019s\u00a0British Museum<\/strong>, and said it lacked the legal jurisdiction to intervene in what it concluded was \u201can act of government\u201d concerning French-British international relations. [Le Journal des Arts<\/strong>]\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOakland-based artist\u00a0Mildred Howard<\/strong>\u00a0discusses her first comprehensive retrospective at a major institution, opening at the\u00a0Oakland Museum of California<\/strong>\u00a0on June 12, titled \u201cMildred Howard: Poetics of Memory.\u201d\u00a0[Guardian<\/strong>]<\/p>\n DIGITAL DIVIDE<\/strong>. Dataland, the world\u2019s first museum dedicated to AI-generated art, founded by\u00a0Refik Anadol<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife, the painter\u00a0Efsun Erkilic<\/strong>, is preparing to open in Los Angeles later this month. As the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reports, it will feature an \u201cimmersive rainforest journey\u201d powered by an AI system called the Large Nature Model, which uses data gathered \u201cethically\u201d from the environment. \u201cThe system is the art,\u201d Anadol told the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0on a recent preview of the exhibition \u201cMachine Dreams: Rainforest,\u201d which includes options for selecting what the show will smell like, and the possibility of sharing visitor biometrics. But as the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0notes in its\u00a0preview<\/strong>, Anadol\u2019s creations \u2014 exemplified by the popular 2022\u201323 installation\u00a0Unsupervised<\/em>, at New York\u2019s MoMA \u2014 also embody the art world\u2019s \u201cdigital divide.\u201d Is\u00a0Unsupervised<\/em>\u00a0\u201ca massive techno lava lamp,\u201d as\u00a0Jerry Saltz<\/strong>\u00a0called it, or \u201can early masterpiece of AI-generated art,\u201d per critic\u00a0Sebastian Smee<\/strong>? Still, museums are increasingly embracing Anadol\u2019s vision. \u201cThere\u2019s not going to be a future in which this kind of work is not happening,\u201d\u00a0Michael Govan<\/strong>, CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA<\/strong>), told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s like Marcel Duchamp \u2014 if you know what\u2019s behind it, you\u2019re open to understanding it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sothebys-to-offer-60-m-modigliani-1234788495\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Amedeo-Modigliani-Nu-assis-au-collier.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. Good Morning! 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