Tennis champion Venus Williams and artist Adam Pendleton will co-host a charity auction at Pace Gallery in New York on May 20 to support the preservation of Nina Simone’s childhood house. Pendleton, together with several fellow artists, jointly purchased the home in 2017, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated it a National Treasure the next year. Damien Hirst, Daniel Arsham, Anish Kapoor, James Turrell, Sarah Sze, Julian Schnabel, Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince, Vik Muniz, and Rashid Johnson are just some of the outstanding artists whose work might be featured in the art assortment.
She has been a major …