Daily Art Download

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
What Not to Miss at the San Francisco Art Fair, According to Curator Mara Gladstone
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curator-mara-gladstone-san-francisco-art-fair-2766248
Sotheby’s Debt, Delays, and the Drahi Playbook
https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-debt-delays-2766303
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Art Speaks in a Language Left for Us to Translate
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-retrospective-bampfa-1234781753/
Art Talk With Rama Duwaji
https://hyperallergic.com/art-talk-with-rama-duwaji/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin—podcast
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/museum-openings-va-east-los-angeles-county-museum-art-plus-william-blake-dublin-podcast
Zurich’s controversial Bührle Collection is rehung, including five paintings by Van Gogh—plus one forgery
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/zurichs-controversial-buhrle-collection-rehung-including-five-paintings-van-gogh-one-forgery
Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/turkey-notches-another-successful-restitution-after-denver-art-museum-returns-1500-year-old-marble-head-1234781710/
Lebanon appeals to Unesco to intervene amid fears protected citadel has been destroyed
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/lebanon-appeals-to-unesco-to-intervene-amid-fears-protected-citadel-has-been-destroyed
The Big Review: Rothko in Florence ★★★★★
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/the-big-review-rothko-in-florence
Catalan Museum Has Yet to Follow Through on Court Order to Return Contested Murals to Aragon Monastery
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/catalan-museum-hasnt-returned-contested-murals-aragon-monastery-1234781729/
Edmonia Lewis Was the Earliest Known Black Artist to Depict Emancipation. This Is Her First Retrospective.
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/edmonia-lewis-peabody-essex-georgia-museum-of-art-north-carolina-museum-of-art-1234781689/
Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/finland-venice-biennale-russia-pavilion-boycott-1234781822/
Tania El Khoury’s Soothing “Revenge Art”
https://hyperallergic.com/tania-el-khourys-soothing-revenge-art/
The Triumphant New LACMA Has the Potential to Rewrite Art History
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/lacma-david-geffen-galleries-review-1234781676/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Sea change: inside LACMA’s new curatorial strategy
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/16/sea-change-inside-lacmas-new-curatorial-strategy
Barcelona museum refuses to return Sijena murals to monastery
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/16/barcelona-museum-refuses-to-return-sijena-murals-to-monastery
‘The extremely happy part of the crowd’: Hungarian arts figures hope for change after 16 years of Orbán rule
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/16/hungarian-arts-figures-hope-change-after-orban-rule
Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/walker-art-center-restaurant-closes-qr-code-controvery-1234781576/
Foundation, a Prominent NFT Platform of the 2021 Boom, Shuts Down After Failed Sale
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/foundation-nft-platform-shutdown-blackdove-sale-failed-1234781419/
Prominent German Art Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Attempted Intimidation’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kunstfonds-foundation-germany-controversy-1234781494/
Our Critics Disagree on MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, a Wide-Ranging Survey Defined by a Fascination with Fragility
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/greater-new-york-2026-critics-conversation-review-1234781406/
MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting
https://hyperallergic.com/moma-ps1s-greater-new-york-is-gritty-stunning-and-gutting/
Rawya El Chab Tends to the Wounds of Lebanon's Civil War
https://hyperallergic.com/rawya-el-chab-tends-to-the-wounds-of-lebanons-civil-war/
Artnet Makes Significant Layoffs Following Consolidation with Artsy
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artnet-layoffs-artsy-consolidation-beowolff-capital-1234781422/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Is Chinese Censorship Reaching Inside Britain’s Museums?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/va-catalogue-chinese-censorship-2765447
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries reframe 6,000 years of history
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/15/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-new-david-geffen-galleries-reframe-6000-years-history
Art Dubai Downsizes Dramatically as War Reshapes Plans
https://news.artnet.com/market/art-dubai-revised-format-2765451
More than 200 cultural figures sign statement criticising international response to destruction of Iran’s heritage
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/15/more-than-200-cultural-figures-sign-statement-criticising-international-response-to-destruction-of-iran-heritage
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné
https://hyperallergic.com/georgia-okeeffe-museum-launches-digital-catalogue-raisonne/
Beowolff Combines Artsy and Artnet in Digital Art Market Push
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artsy-artnet-merger-beowolff-art-market-1234781320/
Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-museum-temple-of-dendur-giacometti-show-1234781310/
Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List Includes Artist Cao Fei and Photojournalist Lynsey Addario
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/time-magazine-influential-artist-cao-fei-lynsey-addario-1234781306/
The Met is Finally Treating Lee Krasner as Pollock’s Equal—Will the Market Follow?
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/lee-krasner-jackson-pollock-met-art-market-1234781332/
“Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” Posters Emerge Across NYC
https://hyperallergic.com/boycott-the-bezos-met-gala-posters-emerge-across-nyc/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
France’s new restitution law passes final vote
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/14/frances-new-restitution-law-passes-final-vote
FKA Twigs and Brian Eno among artists included in the Vatican's sound-based 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/14/fka-twigs-and-brian-eno-among-artists-included-in-the-vaticans-sound-based-2026-venice-biennale-pavilion
Former High Museum COO Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Theft Charges
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-federal-theft-charges-1234781188/
Beloved CUNY Social Practice Art Program to Shut Down
https://hyperallergic.com/beloved-cuny-social-practice-art-program-to-shut-down/
Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project
https://hyperallergic.com/mexican-artist-alleges-plagiarism-of-femicide-project/
40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge
https://hyperallergic.com/40-years-later-houstons-fotofest-keeps-its-edge/
These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
https://hyperallergic.com/these-are-the-winners-of-the-2026-guggenheim-fellowship/
Hampshire College, Whose Alumni List Includes Many Well-Known Artists, to Close After 51 Years
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hampshire-college-closes-artist-alumni-1234781190/
Artists Criticize Somalia’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion: ‘This Pavilion Does Not Speak for Us’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-somali-pavilion-controversy-1234781181/
Ai Weiwei on Censorship
https://hyperallergic.com/ai-weiwei-on-censorship/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Go Time! Gagosian Christens New Madison Avenue Space With Duchamp Readymades
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gagosian-duchamp-madison-ave-2764178
New Bienal de Yucatán to spotlight Mexican region’s growing art scene
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/13/bienal-yucatan-merida-mexico-launching-november
A Data Analysis of the 2026 Venice Biennale Signals a Shift to the Present
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-2026-data-analysis-2754880
IMLS Spared in Legal Battle—But Threat of Budget Cuts Looms
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/imls-lawsuit-settlement-budget-cuts-2764588
Lost-Lost Film by French Cinema Pioneer Turns Up in Michigan
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lost-georges-melies-film-discovered-michigan-2764682
Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Is Building its First Museum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/barjeel-art-foundation-sharjah-museum-1234781097/
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46
https://hyperallergic.com/celeste-dupuy-spencer-artist-who-confronted-injustice-dies-at-46/
Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut
https://hyperallergic.com/ai-weiwei-and-the-art-of-keeping-your-mouth-shut/
European Commission Tells Venice Biennale to ‘Clear Its Name’ Regarding Russian Pavilion or Risk Losing $2.3 M. Grant for 2028
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/european-commission-letter-venice-biennale-russian-pavilion-1234781084/
Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father
https://hyperallergic.com/chicana-painter-criselda-vasquez-says-ice-detained-her-father/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
What Germany’s Art Market Reveals About the Limits of Localism
https://news.artnet.com/market/germany-art-market-local-2764206
Trump's Clash of Civilizations
https://hyperallergic.com/trumps-clash-of-civilizations/
The Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From a 16th-Century Belgian Manuscript to a Painting of a Mariachi Band
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/five-standouts-expo-chicago-1234780988/
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter Who Used Her Art to Fight for Justice, Dies at 46
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/celeste-dupuy-spencer-painter-dead-1234781046/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Shoptalk: New Guggenheim Director Melissa Chiu on How She Got the Job
https://news.artnet.com/market/melissa-chiu-interview-2761902
Getty Center will close for a year to undergo major renovations
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/10/getty-center-to-undergo-major-renovations-close-for-a-year-beginning-march-2027
Spanish culture ministry denies loan of Picasso's Guernica to Bilbao
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/10/spanish-culture-ministry-denies-loan-picassos-guernica-bilbao
Institute of Museum and Library Services Saved from Defunding After Legal Challenge
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-saved-from-defunding-after-legal-challenge-1234780943/
The Long Legal Saga Between Artist Ryder Ripps and the Bored Ape Yacht Club Is Finally Over
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artist-ryder-ripps-bored-ape-yacht-club-legal-battle-over-1234780915/
Obama Presidential Center Announces Final Cohort of Commissions Ahead of June Opening, Including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Lorna Simpson
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/obama-presidential-center-final-artist-commissions-1234780957/
Trump Unveils Latest Plans for Proposed 250-Foot Tall Triumphal Arch
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trump-unveils-latest-plans-for-proposed-250-foot-tall-triumphal-arch-1234780939/
Ukraine Sanctions Russian Culture Figures Linked to Country’s Participation in Venice Biennale
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ukraine-sanctions-russian-culture-figures-venice-biennale-1234780925/
A Dutch museum has just put its fake Van Gogh on show
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/10/dutch-museum-fake-van-gogh-on-show
Greece Creates New Art Crime Unit to Combat Forgery and Trafficking
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/greece-art-crime-2763957

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/09/melissa-chiu-leaves-hirshhorn-to-take-over-new-yorks-guggenheim-museum
London’s V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/09/londons-va-launches-webpage-exploring-provenance-of-its-objects
Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/09/readymades-replicas-reiterations-marcel-duchamp-the-inventor
The Philosopher Who Predicted Our Post-Literate Art Moment
https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/vilem-flusser-martha-schwendener-book-2760209
Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/09/obama-presidential-center-artist-commissions-expo-chicago
Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/09/greece-introduces-new-law-to-tackle-art-forgery-and-damage
Proposed Restitution Law in France Advances in National Assembly
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/restitution-law-france-advances-1234780729/
LA’s Getty Center to Close for Renovations Beginning in 2027
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/getty-center-year-long-closure-1234780777/
Works from Marian Goodman’s Collection to Anchor Christie’s May Sales
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/marian-goodman-collection-christies-may-sale-richter-1234780701/
Jasper Johns Marks Time
https://hyperallergic.com/jasper-johns-marks-time/