> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Billie Holiday Comes to Queens - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/billie-holiday-comes-to-queens/ - Published: 2026-05-21T10:00:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-21T10:00:37.000Z - Description: Thomas J Price and Tavares Strachan are frontrunners for a new commission to honor the jazz legend. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Daily Newsletter, Newsletter You’ve heard of Chicken Little, but what about Chicken Linda? At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a “devotional chicken costume” — words I never thought I’d see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you’d expect. You simply must read it. A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world. *—Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/chicken-linda.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-divine-powers-of-chicken-linda/) ### [The Divine Powers of “Chicken Linda”](https://hyperallergic.com/the-divine-powers-of-chicken-linda/) Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art. | Taliesin Thomas --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/01c7f9d2-4fcd-11f1-89de-de097870deb9-1.jpeg)](https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/graduate-studies/advertising-campaigns/ad-campaign-art-market-studies-mps.php?utm%5Fcampaign=fr%5Fgraduate%5Fma-market-studies&utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=digital-banner-ads) With hands-on, interdisciplinary coursework; high-level networking opportunities; and an engaging internship, the three-semester MA in Art Market Studies at FIT prepares students to shepherd artists in their careers, buy and sell artworks, and succeed at the business of art. [Learn more ](https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/graduate-studies/advertising-campaigns/ad-campaign-art-market-studies-mps.php?utm%5Fcampaign=fr%5Fgraduate%5Fma-market-studies&utm%5Fsource=hyperallergic&utm%5Fmedium=digital-banner-ads) --- ### News [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/IMG_1462.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/guggenheim-to-screen-artistic-portrait-of-soccer-legend-zinedine-zidane/) - A 2006 [film celebrating French soccer legend](https://hyperallergic.com/guggenheim-to-screen-artistic-portrait-of-soccer-legend-zinedine-zidane/) Zinédine Zidane will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup. - The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has revealed [six commission proposals](https://hyperallergic.com/who-should-design-nycs-new-billie-holiday-monument/) for a monument celebrating the legacy of groundbreaking jazz vocalist Billie Holiday. - CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan was [booed during a commencement speech](https://hyperallergic.com/calarts-president-booed-during-commencement-speech/) by students who held signs protesting staff layoffs. - The Museum of the City of New York will open the [Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism](https://hyperallergic.com/as-democaracy-falters-a-new-york-museum/), dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city’s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing. --- ### Community [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/memoriam-.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-f-john-sierra-valie-export-and-mary-lovelace-oneal/) ### [Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O’Neal](https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-f-john-sierra-valie-export-and-mary-lovelace-oneal/) This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/CMoG_Image_5-1.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/tough-stuff-women-in-the-american-glass-studio/) ****Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio** Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/tough-stuff-women-in-the-american-glass-studio/) --- ### Member Comment This comprehensive and enlightening discussion of the inevitability of death reminds me of my naive late in life discovery of Epicurus (Epikouros) 341–270 BC, a Greek philosopher, who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism that valued living a life of responsible pleasure rather than suffering valued by early follows of Christianity with reward in the afterlife, that Epicurus believed didn't exist. Butch Murphy on Ed Simon's “[Art’s Greatest Gift of Death](https://hyperallergic.com/arts-greatest-gift-of-death-memento-mori/)” --- ### From the Archive [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/05/surrealism.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/the-small-magazines-that-birthed-surrealism/) ### [The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism](https://hyperallergic.com/the-small-magazines-that-birthed-surrealism/) "Surrealism Through Its Journals" reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word. | Lavinia Liang