This iconic work is aptly named. In the fall of 1965, performance artist Dorothy Podber visited Andy Warhol’s studio and ask if she could “shoot” them, and when Warhol agreed, assumed she was going to take pictures, she pulled out a gun and shot the canvases.

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, a portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol (USA), sold for $195m.

Warhol breaks record

The status weighs about 5,900 pounds, and it was first installed on the High Line, New York, in 2019. It is now permanently set at the gateway to College Green on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

Simone Leigh was recognized for her bronze bust Brick House at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Simone Leigh won Golden Lions

Questlove won both the Oscar and Grammy for the documentary. After winning both the grand jury prize and audience award at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary sold for more than $12 million, the biggest price tag for a documentary in the festival’s history.

‘Summer of Soul’ wins best documentary at 94th OScars.

Questlove at Oscars

It was the first Super Bowl halftime show centered entirely around Hip Hop.  All artists saw a large boost in their streaming numbers. 
Snoop Dogg’s “The Next Episode” ⬆ 270%, "Still D.R.E" ⬆ 245%
Dr. Dre’s collective Spotify streaming number ⬆ 185%
Blige’s “No More Drama” ⬆ 520%.

Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar performed at Super Bowl.

Super Bowl LVI halftime show

Batiste has the most Grammy nominations since Michael Jackson’s Thriller, released 40 years ago.
He won Oscar for his music work on the Disney movie, Soul and he was the bandleader for Stephen Colbert’s Late shown between 2015 and 2022.

Jon Batiste won album of the year honors for “We Are” and 4 other awards at the Grammy Awards.

Jon Batiste wins 5 Grammys

Within three months of its release, Renaissance amassed over 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Released in July 2022, was an instant No.1 hit and critical darling.

Beyonce's 'Renaissance'

With the 52 dates of Eras’ tour, Taylor Swift will become the highest-grossing female touring artist, a spot which has been held by Madonna. Also, after the infamous Ticketmaster outage, the Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour sold $590M in ticket sales and brought down Ticketmaster.

Taylor Swift Ticketmaster saga

It is estimated that Bob Dylan’s entire back catalogue brings in $16 million in annual recurring revenue.

Top artists selling their back catalogue such as Bob Dylan, etc.

Major musicians sell their entire Song catalogues

The sales attracted over 4 million viewers and five of the works sold exceeded $100 million. 24 works achieved artist records ranging from household names such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne to living artists like Guillermo Kuitca and Nancy Rubens.

It is the biggest sale in auction history, at $1.5 billion.

Paul Allen Auction

It cost $170 million to produce this movie and, the use of F-18s Jets cost the producers $11,000 per hour. But the movie already brought $1.5B worldwide.

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