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.
‘New Humans’ and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-humans-new-museum-2755615
The Cultural Heritage Sites Damaged by the U.S.-Israel War on Iran
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/iran-cultural-heritage-sites-damaged-us-israel-war-2755784
Art Dubai Postpones 20th Edition as Iran War Rages On
https://news.artnet.com/market/art-dubai-postpones-20th-edition-as-iran-war-rages-on-2755811
Mexico’s culture ministry urges eBay to halt sales of pre-Hispanic artefacts
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/19/mexico-calls-ebay-stop-sales-pre-hispanic-artefacts
Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-museum-acquires-rediscovered-rosso-fiorentino-painting-1234778208/
San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Plans to Sell Building
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/contemporary-jewish-museum-san-francisco-building-sale-1234778138/
Our Critics Say the New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/new-museum-reopening-expansion-new-humans-review-1234778022/
Fort Lauderdale Still Fighting Removal of Rainbow Crosswalks: ‘We Are the Last Man Standing’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fort-lauderdale-still-fighting-removal-of-rainbow-crosswalks-we-are-the-last-man-standing-1234778180/
Lauren Halsey’s Long-Awaited LA Sculpture Park in South Central Is Finally Here—See Inside
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/lauren-halsey-la-sculpture-park-south-central-1234778115/
Art Movements: And the $100K Rauschenberg Award Goes to...
https://hyperallergic.com/gemini-said-art-movements-and-the-100k-rauschenberg-award-goes-to/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
British Museum did not remove Palestine from labels due to pressure campaign, museum sources say—as backlash continues
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/19/british-museum-did-not-remove-palestine-from-labels-due-to-pressure-campaign-museum-sources-say-as-backlash-continues
The new New Museum: now with twice the space
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/18/the-new-new-museum-now-with-twice-the-space
Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tate-liverpool-director-helen-legg-royal-academy-of-arts-1234777854/
Congress Moves to Expand Holocaust Art Restitution Claims
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hear-act-expansion-nazi-looted-art-claims-congress-1234777756/
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
https://hyperallergic.com/what-do-we-really-think-of-the-new-new-museum/
Dizzy, Nauseous Columbus Art Museum Workers Issue Complaints About Chemical Fumes
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/columbus-art-museum-workerscomplaints-chemical-fumes-1234777850/
Man Causes ‘Catastrophic Damage’ to Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chihuly-glass-museum-vandalism-damage-1234777828/
Major Corporate Sponsor Withdraws from Sydney Biennale, Citing Alleged Hate Speech
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/major-corporate-sponsor-withdraws-from-sydney-biennale-citing-alleged-hate-speech-1234777832/
Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/paris-dealer-kamel-mennour-buys-galerie-malingue-1234777869/
Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue
https://hyperallergic.com/remembering-axel-burrough-kazumasa-nagai-and-eliane-radigue/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
The Tensions Seething Beneath the Surface of the 2026 Whitney Biennial
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-biennial-2026-trends-2754215
178 Venice Biennale Participants Demand Israel Be Barred From Exhibition
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/open-letter-israel-venice-biennale-2754460
MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn to Depart After 18 Years
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mca-chicago-director-madeleine-grynsztejn-departs-1234777519/
US congress passes revamped Holocaust recovery bill that sidesteps many legal defences
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/17/us-congress-passes-hear-act-2026-holocaust-era-art-recovery-nazi-loot
DePaul Art Museum Advisory Board Calls on University to Save the Institution, Expressing ‘Anger, Frustration, and Deep Sadness’ Over Abrupt Closure
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/depaul-art-museum-advisory-board-letter-save-institution-1234777628/
The Canonization of Frida Kahlo
https://hyperallergic.com/the-canonization-of-frida-kahlo/
When a Palestinian Artist Asserts Her Own Humanity
https://hyperallergic.com/when-a-palestinian-artist-asserts-her-own-humanity/
Court Decision Ends Dispute Over Who Actually Bought Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 M.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-everydays-nft-lawsuit-decision-1234777672/
Egidio Marzona, Collector Who Built a Monument to the Avant-Garde, Dies at 81
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/egidio-marzona-dead-avant-garde-collector-archive-1234777644/
Trevor Paglen Wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award for Art and Technology
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trevor-paglen-wins-lg-guggenheim-award-1234777569/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Tate Modern to Mount Its First Monet Show Ever
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tate-modern-monet-show-painting-time-2754600
Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/16/tate-announces-major-david-hockney-edvard-munch-and-sonia-boyce-exhibitions-for-2027
New York Academy of Art Donates $66,000 Linked to Jeffrey Epstein
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-york-academy-of-art-donates-epstein-funds-2754580
Oscar Win for Artist Duo’s Dystopian Short Film
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/two-people-exchanging-saliva-singh-musteata-2026-oscars-2739484
Art Dealer Yves Bouvier to Stand Trial Over Missing Picassos—and More Art Industry News
https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-mar-16-2753972
Endemic leaking problems at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater finally come to an end
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/16/fallingwater-endemic-leaking-problems-finally-come-to-an-end-frank-lloyd-wright
London’s Timothy Taylor to Close New York Outpost After a Decade
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/timothy-taylor-closes-new-york-outpost-1234777524/
Blue Shields Placed at 34 Archaeological Sites Across Lebanon, Signaling Enhanced Protections
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/blue-shields-placed-at-34-archaeological-sites-across-lebanon-signaling-enhanced-protections-1234777575/
Monet, Munch, and Hockney Headline Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/monet-munch-hockney-tate-2027-exhibition-calendar-1234777566/
Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gelman-collection-santander-mexico-controversy-frida-kahlo-1234777507/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Strange Coin Used on U.K. Bus Turns Out to Be 2,000-Year-Old Relic
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leeds-bus-fare-coin-carthaginian-museum-2754140
Masterpieces From London’s National Gallery, Now on Display at Home With LG Gallery+
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lg-gallery-londons-national-gallery-2749112
Italy’s Culture Minister Calls For Resignation Over Russian Pavilion’s Return to Venice Biennale
https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/italy-culture-minister-venice-biennale-russia-pavilion-resignation-1234777479/
The Wild Ways Artists Have Made Their Livings, from the Renaissance to Today
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/book-mason-currey-artists-living-romare-bearden-franz-kafka-1234776793/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
A New Brooklyn Art Fair With a Global Outlook Debuts This Spring
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/conductor-the-art-fair-of-the-global-majority-2753208
Art Dealers Report More Sales in 2025—But Fewer Buyers
https://news.artnet.com/market/art-dealer-sales-2025-2754173
New York Academy of Art to Give Away Money Donated by Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-academy-of-art-epstein-donations-charity-1234777470/
The Palaces of Memory
https://hyperallergic.com/the-palaces-of-memory/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Cash-Strapped Hong Kong Arts Hub Saved—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
https://news.artnet.com/market/the-asia-pivot-state-of-play-20260313-2754018
Van Gogh Museum Adds Rare Work by a Woman Artist to Its Collection
https://news.artnet.com/market/virginie-demont-breton-van-gogh-2753841
Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all?
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/13/mschf-our-cow-angus-saved-conceptual-art-project-animal-rights-meat-industry
Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/13/pedro-friedeberg-obituary-mexican-artist-hand-chair
60% of Sudan’s National Museum Looted, Report Says
https://hyperallergic.com/60-of-sudans-national-museum-looted-report-says/
Dealer Yves Bouvier to stand trial in Paris over missing Picassos
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/13/yves-bouvier-to-stand-trial-in-paris
Lawsuit Alleges DOGE Cancelled $349,000 HVAC Grant to Museum after ChatGPT Flagged It As DEI
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chatgpt-dei-high-point-museum-hvac-grant-lawsuit-doge-1234777297/
South Carolina’s International African American Museum Officially Acquires Earliest Known Daguerreotypes of Enslaved Americans
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/international-african-american-museum-1850-daguerreotypes-1234777444/
Contemporary Art Market Declines For Fourth Straight Year, as Old Masters and Impressionist Works Rebound: Art Basel UBS Report
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/contemporary-art-market-cooling-old-masters-report-1234777454/
Beverly Buchanan’s Architecture of Care
https://hyperallergic.com/beverly-buchanans-architecture-of-care/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
David Hockney Takes on the Bayeux Tapestry With a 300-Foot iPad Epic
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-hockney-serpentine-north-2753359
King Charles Portraitist Jonathan Yeo’s Paintings Get the A.R. Treatment
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jonathan-yeo-snap-augmented-reality-sxsw-2753266
Victor Vasarely’s crumbling Aix legacy to be restored
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/12/victor-vasarelys-crumbling-aix-legacy-to-be-restored
Dingo-related work at Sydney Biennale takes on new resonance following backpacker death
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/12/dingo-related-work-sydney-biennale-new-resonance-following-backpacker-death
Brian Eno and 200+ Artists Urge British Museum to “Stop Erasing Palestine”
https://hyperallergic.com/brian-eno-and-200-artists-urge-british-museum-to-stop-erasing-palestine/
Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/glenn-lowry-leon-black-trustee-jeffrey-epstein-1234777261/
Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-slavery-exhibit-slave-ship-artifact-return-1234777204/
Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bob-rennie-national-gallery-of-canada-donation-24-artworks-1234777302/
Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/biennale-of-sydney-jewish-group-pro-palestine-artists-1234777201/
Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/unt-leaders-canceled-anti-ice-show-texts-1234777202/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
How Frida Kahlo’s Mythic Life Became Artistic Legend
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frida-kahlo-making-of-an-icon-2736648
Is most art now just too expensive for most people?
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/11/is-most-art-now-just-too-expensive-for-most-people
Nifty Gateway has shut down, but NFTs are not dead—they are evolving
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/11/nifty-gateway-shut-down-nft-marketplace-evolving
E.U. Threatens to Pull Venice Biennale Funding Over Russia Pavilion’s Return
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-russia-pavilion-eu-funding-2752812
Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design
https://hyperallergic.com/merging-craft-practices-and-new-media-at-the-museum-of-craft-and-design/
Final sentencing in Norval Morrisseau forgery scandal derailed by new allegations
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/11/norval-morrisseau-forgery-ring-final-sentencing-derailed-allegations
Caravaggio portrait of influential patron—and future Pope Urban VIII—purchased by Italy for €30m
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/11/caravaggio-portrait-influential-patronand-future-pope-urban-viii-purchased-by-italy
Text Messages Reveal How University of Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show
https://hyperallergic.com/text-messages-reveal-how-university-of-texas-leaders-axed-an-anti-ice-show/
Beeple’s Pooping Robot “Dogs” Are Heading to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-robot-dogs-neue-nationalgalerie-berlin-1234777052/
Art Basel Qatar's Complicity
https://hyperallergic.com/art-basel-qatars-complicity/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Texas university's sudden cancellation of exhibition with works critical of Ice sparks censorship row
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/10/university-north-texas-closes-victor-quinonez-exhibition
A Powerful Medieval Queen Returns—As an A.I. Avatar You Can Chat With
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/eleanor-of-castile-ai-leeds-castle-2752385
Missile strike hits boundary of archaeological site in Tyre, Lebanon as minister calls for Unesco intervention
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/10/lebanon-ancient-city-tyre-hit-by-strikes-minister-calls-for-unesco-intervention
Unesco sites in Iranian city of Isfahan damaged by US-Israel strikes
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/10/unesco-sites-in-iranian-city-of-isfahan-and-others-across-countrydamaged-by-us-israel-strikes
Artists Behind Removed Trump-Epstein Statue Have Placed A New One in Washington, D.C.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-trump-epstein-statue-washington-d-c-titanic-1234776937/
Michael Joo Looks Back On His Career, With Another Venice Biennale Appearance on the Horizon
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/michael-joo-space-zero-one-venice-biennale-1234775845/
EU Says It Could Pull Funding to Venice Biennale Over Russian Pavilion
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-russian-pavilion-eu-threatens-funding-1234776850/
The US Art Market Is Stabilizing—but It’s a Different Market Now, Per New Bank of America Report
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/b-of-a-arttactic-art-market-report-2026-trends-1234776748/
US and Israel Strikes Damage 17th-Century Palace in Isfahan
https://hyperallergic.com/us-and-israel-strikes-damage-17th-century-palace-in-isfahan/
Designer Dries Van Noten to Launch Foundation in Venice Ahead of the Biennale
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/dries-van-noten-launch-foundation-venice-1234776799/