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.
Results at the Big Three Auction Houses Tell Two Different Stories
https://news.artnet.com/market/mid-year-review-auctions-2787320
Magritte, Constable, Trump's Smithsonian Wrath
https://hyperallergic.com/magritte-constable-trumps-smithsonian-wrath/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum in London after secret English Channel crossing
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-at-the-british-museum-after-secret-english-channel-crossing
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art announces plans for Thailand outpost
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/tasmanias-museum-of-old-and-new-art-announces-plans-for-thailand-outpost
Exhibition in Bogotá shows off more than 1,000 repatriated pre-Columbian artefacts
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/exhibition-in-bogota-shows-off-more-than-1000-repatriated-pre-columbian-artefacts
Gelman Collection controversy reaches Mexican courts
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/could-mexicos-treasured-kahlo-works-leave-the-country-forever
Unesco reviewing controversial ‘black cube’ project in Florence amid outrage
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/unesco-reviewing-controversial-black-cube-project-in-florence-amid-outrage
Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-staffers-accuse-cape-town-gallery-smac-nonpayment-1234791540/
Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?
https://hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-many-museums-hold-a-convicted-antiquity-dealers-treasures/
US Returns Two Looted Bronze Buddha Statues, Sold by Disgraced Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford, to Indonesia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-returns-indonesia-looted-bronze-buddha-statues-douglas-latchford-1234791873/
ICOM Adopts New Museum Code of Ethics Taking Aim at AI, Colonialism, and Climate Change
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/icom-new-museum-code-of-ethics-ai-colonialism-climate-change-1234791845/
Which Artworks Will Grace the High Line’s Plinth Next?
https://hyperallergic.com/which-artworks-will-grace-the-high-lines-plinth-next/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-returns-59-antiquities-to-italy-iraq-indonesia-1234791699/
Midjourney strikes back: sued AI giant demands Hollywood’s secrets
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/midjourney-demands-hollywood-AI-secrets
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-white-house-report-july-4-1234791701/
Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/edi-rama-defends-kanye-west-concert-tirana-1234791728/
Venice Arts Workers to Protest During US Ambassador’s Visit
https://hyperallergic.com/venice-arts-workers-to-protest-during-us-ambassadors-visit/
Hauser & Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo Artwork
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hauser-wirth-cleared-breaching-russia-sanctions-condo-1234791702/
Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement
https://hyperallergic.com/chicago-photographer-accuses-mickalene-thomas-of-copyright-infringement/
Los Angeles's Post-Fair will expand to Paris during Art Basel week
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/los-angeless-post-fair-will-expand-to-paris-during-art-basel-week
Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/icom-adopts-new-code-of-ethics-for-museums-in-bid-to-address-a-rapidly-changing-world
Flamenco, fashion and freedom: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/riots-resistance-and-the-birth-of-a-new-country-three-photography-shows-to-see-at-les-rencontres-darles

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/new-museum-names-massimiliano-gioni-as-new-director
White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/white-patriarchal-and-christian-white-house-vision-for-the-national-museum-of-american-history
Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/italy-advances-legislation-nazi-looted-art-restitution-1234791606/
Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/patti-smith-and-soundwalk-collectives-sprawling-arles-installation-offers-haunting-world-view
Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/ukraine-gives-its-troops-a-handbook-on-protecting-cultural-property
Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages
https://hyperallergic.com/whitney-museum-screens-taken-over-with-gaza-protest-messages/
Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mickalene-thomas-lawsuit-barbara-karant-infingement-1234791577/
High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/high-line-plinth-artist-proposals-2029-2030-commissions-1234791398/
The Hidden History of Stock Photography
https://hyperallergic.com/the-hidden-history-of-stock-photography/
The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/netherlands-germany-return-2000-artifacts-ghana-1234789956/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Massimiliano Gioni Will Lead the New Museum
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/massimiliano-gioni-new-museum-director-2786527
This Giant Spider at Frieze London Will Transport You to a Digital World
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frieze-artist-award-theo-triantafyllidis-2786271
Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-new-museum-new-york-1234791359/
Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/luisa-cunha-portuguese-conceptual-artist-dies-77-1234791364/
Texas Covers Up Beloved "Black Artists Matter" Mural in Austin
https://hyperallergic.com/texas-covers-up-beloved-black-artists-matter-mural-in-austin/
Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pro-palestine-strike-over-us-ambassador-visit-to-venice-1234791414/
UK Artists Accuse Shuttering Artist Pension Trust of ‘Epic Betrayal,’ Former Barnes Foundation President Richard Glanton Has Died, and More: Morning Links for July 7, 2026
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-artist-pension-trust-shutters-morning-links-july-7-2026-1234791307/
An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/english-national-first-convicted-violating-russia-sanctions-1234791248/
Trump’s Unhinged Attacks on the Smithsonian
https://hyperallergic.com/trumps-unhinged-attacks-on-the-smithsonian/
Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/louisiana-museum-denmark-annouces-remedios-varo-exhibition-fall-1234791322/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Yemen Identifies 28 Looted Artifacts at British Museum, London Auction Houses
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yemen-looted-artifacts-british-museum-auctions-1234791176/
New White House Report Alleges ‘Anti-White’ Bias at Smithsonian
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/white-house-july-4-report-smithsonian-2786226
When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/museum-mergers-neue-galerie-met-museum
In Chloe Wise’s ‘Extrasensory’ Basel Show, UFOs Meet Scripture
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chloe-wise-basel-interview-2786414
Businessman Fined in U.K.’s First Russia Art Sanctions Conviction
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/russia-sanctions-conviction-2786232
Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/experts-blame-earthquake-damage-in-venezuela-on-government-neglect
Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum
https://hyperallergic.com/thieves-steal-over-4-5m-in-jewelry-from-french-museum/
In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor
https://hyperallergic.com/in-two-chicago-exhibitions-liberation-takes-the-floor/
Amid Its Own Copyright Controversy, Midjourney Asks Court to Reveal How Disney Uses AI
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/copyright-midjourney-court-to-reveal-how-disney-uses-ai-1234791213/
Yervant Gianikian, Artist Who Helped Win Armenia the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, Dies at 84
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yervant-gianikian-artist-filmmaker-dead-1234791166/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
How Alexandria Gallery Went From Cleveland Pop-Up to Global Force
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alexandria-gallery-woodmere-2785495
Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-heist-perfect-day-the-mastermind-how-to-steal-a-million-lemle-1234791022/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/e-1027-house-eileen-gray-lorna-bauer-2785325
Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us
https://hyperallergic.com/akira-ikezoes-frogs-and-bears-have-something-urgent-to-tell-us/
Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture
https://hyperallergic.com/charles-seliger-painted-natures-invisible-architecture/
Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space
https://hyperallergic.com/revisiting-35-years-of-an-iconic-newark-artist-led-space/
A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi
https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-344/
Art and Resistance on the Nation’s 250th
https://hyperallergic.com/weekly-7-4-26/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Etruscan frescoes worth €15m go on display in Rome as part of Italian acquisition strategy
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/etruscan-frescoes-worth-£15m-go-on-display-in-rome-as-part-of-italian-acquisition-strategy
Smithsonian museum will loan more than 200 works to institutions in all 50 states and Puerto Rico
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/hirshhorn-museum-art-bridges-loans-every-us-state-puerto-rico
There’s New Money in Old Masters
https://news.artnet.com/market/new-money-old-masters-2786051
‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/even-sewing-a-button-can-be-subversive-ai-weiwei-weaves-stories-of-colonialism-and-exile-into-vast-new-manchester-show
Epstein files reveal Leon Black as a key Van Gogh buyer
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/epstein-papers-reveal-leon-black-as-key-collector-of-van-gogh-works
The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-seventies-helene-bailly-marcilhac-2785263
Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thousands-try-for-tickets-to-bayeux-tapestry-british-museum-1234791120/
Artists Reclaim Lady Liberty
https://hyperallergic.com/artists-reclaim-lady-liberty/
A Standout 250th Show Confronts Centuries of American Contradictions
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/america-250-standout-new-york-historical-democracy-matters-thomas-cole-1234791012/
British Museum Recasts America’s Founding Through Indigenous Eyes
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-america-250-show-2784208

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/canadian-museum-human-rights-palestine-uprooted-nakba-exhibition-politics
How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music
https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/doug-aitken-the-shed-2779635
Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/artist-erna-rosenstein-whose-work-about-memory-and-loss-resonates-today-subject-of-major-vienna-exhibition
President and general manager of leading Marseille art institution Mucem suspended amid workplace allegations
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/president-and-general-manager-of-leading-marseille-art-institution-mucem-suspended-amid-workplace-allegations
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Reimagines America on Its 250th Birthday
https://hyperallergic.com/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-reimagines-america-on-its-250th-birthday/
Artist Calls on Manifesta 16 to Remove Installation, Alleging Plagarism
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manifesta-plagiarism-allegation-nasan-tur-dorothee-bielfeld-1234791108/
Photograph by Boris Mikhailov Stolen from Lithuanian Museum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/boris-mikhailov-photograph-stolen-lithuanian-national-museum-1234791089/
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces a Record $323.8 M. in Culture Funding
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-mayor-mamdani-announces-record-culture-funding-1234791047/
Phillips Has Sold Nearly $2 M. Worth of Art from Disgraced Art Adviser Lisa Schiff’s Collection
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/phillips-lisa-schiff-collection-sales-1234791064/
19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/19th-century-bronze-laocoon-leads-london-old-master-auctions-selling-for-£136m-at-sothebys