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.
Value of Looted Objects at Met Museum Tops $95M After New Seizures
https://hyperallergic.com/value-of-looted-objects-at-met-museum-tops-95m-after-new-seizures/
León Ferrari exhibition cancelled in Chile amid cuts to culture budget
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/01/leon-ferrari-exhibition-cancelled-chile-museo-nacional-bellas-artes
At New York’s Swiss Institute, SoiL Thornton ponders the role an art institution can play in the face of a housing crisis
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/01/at-new-yorks-swiss-institute-soil-thornton-ponders-the-role-an-art-institution-can-play-in-the-face-of-a-housing-crisis
Facing Protests and Political Pressure, Canadian Humans Rights Opens Palestine Exhibition
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/facing-protests-and-political-pressure-canadian-humans-rights-opens-palestine-exhibition-1234790963/
NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-mayor-mamdani-approves-record-323m-funding-for-culture/
Getty Images and Shutterstock Pull the Plug on $3.7 Billion Merger
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/getty-images-shutterstock-cancel-merger-1234790924/
Manhattan DA’s Office Seized Dozens of Antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in June, Bringing Total to $95 M.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manhattan-d-a-seized-dozens-of-antiquities-from-met-in-june-1234790907/
Norval Morrisseau Case Deepens as Art Expert Says the Artist’s Children Were in on Forgery Scheme
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/norval-morrisseau-children-forgery-scheme-expert-testimony-1234790939/
Mexican Government Faces Legal Action over Its Handling of Art Collection Rich in Kahlos
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gelman-collection-kahlo-mexico-santander-legal-action-1234790914/
On Truth Social, Trump Plasters an AI-Generated Golden Bald Eagle on the White House
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/truth-social-trump-ai-golden-bald-eagle-white-house-1234790937/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Workers at the Guggenheim in New York vote to authorise a strike
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/30/guggenheim-museum-workers-new-york-vote-authorise-strike
Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo Tapped for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/skulptur-projekte-munster-artists-2027-2784959
Switzerland Returns 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/switzerland-returned-benin-bronzes-restitution-2785078
Artistic Director for 2028 Gwangju Biennale Will Be Selected Via Open-Call in Break from Tradition
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gwangju-biennale-artistic-director-open-call-1234790814/
Russia’s Hermitage Museum Suspends Archaeological Expeditions in Crimea, Citing Fuel Shortage
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hermitage-museum-suspends-archaeological-expeditions-crimea-1234790797/
Rune Mields, Self-Taught German Conceptual Artist, Dies at 91
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rune-mields-conceptual-artist-dead-1234790852/
Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry
https://hyperallergic.com/philip-gustons-lines-of-poetry/
Christie’s Old Masters Sale in London Totals $48.7 M. as Collectors Chase Standout Pictures
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/christies-old-masters-evening-sale-june-2026-results-1234790894/
Researchers Utilize AI to Translate 2,000-Year-Old Carbonized Scrolls from Herculaneum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/researchers-ai-translate-2000-year-old-carbonized-scrolls-herculaneum-1234790862/
IM Youngzoo’s ‘The Late’ Blends a 1,254-Page Research Book and a 7-Channel Video Into a Meditation on Belief and Technology
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/im-youngzoo-the-late-review-space-zeroone-brooklyn-1234790848/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Swiss Institute Buys Space by New Museum, Plans Bowery Move
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/swiss-institute-bowery-move-new-york-2784593
UK government leaving museums vulnerable with ‘hands-off approach’, parliamentary report says
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/29/what-does-the-latest-parliamentary-report-on-financial-resilience-in-uk-government-sponsored-museums-reveal
Entire Herculaneum Scroll Deciphered by A.I. for the First Time
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/herculaneum-scroll-translated-unraveled-vesuvius-challenge-2784765
Three Swiss Museums Return Trove of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/swiss-museums-return-benin-bronzes-nigeria-1234790609/
Refik Anadol to Stage Monumental AI Installation on Smithsonian Castle in DC
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/refik-anadol-ai-smithsonian-castle-washington-dc-1234790733/
Texas Tattoo Artist Gets 30-Year Sentence Over “Anti-Trump” Zines
https://hyperallergic.com/texas-tattoo-artist-gets-30-year-sentence-over-anti-trump-zines/
Heir of German Jewish Collector Seeks Return of Van Gogh Painting from Musée d’Orsay
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/heir-german-jewish-collector-van-gogh-painting-musee-dorsay-1234790703/
Man Pleads Guilty in Fraud That Swindled Bruce Springsteen Manager
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thomas-doyle-pleads-guilty-courbet-art-fraud-jon-landau-1234790603/
The Met and the Art Smuggler
https://hyperallergic.com/the-met-and-the-art-smuggler/
The Artists Countermapping the World
https://hyperallergic.com/the-artists-countermapping-the-world/

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.
5 Queer Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network to Celebrate This Pride Month
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artnet-gallery-network-june-pride-2779732
What Is the Raphael Loggia, the Vatican Masterpiece Being Restored After 500 Years?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-loggia-vatican-palace-restoration-2784105
Pace, William Kentridge, “AlgaeBTQ+”
https://hyperallergic.com/pace-william-kentridge-algaebtq/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Comment | Art Basel’s Zero 10 grows up and outgrows the digital community that led to its inception
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/26/art-basel-zero-ten-swiss-edition-expansive-view-digital-art
Too hot to handle? European heatwave exposes museums' lack of preparedness for climate extremes
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/26/too-hot-to-handle-european-heatwave-exposes-museums-lack-of-preparedness-for-climate-extremes
Canadian Museum for Human Rights show on Palestinian displacement offers nuanced, empathetic perspective amid uproar
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/26/canadian-museum-human-rights-palestine-uprooted-exhibition-preview
Nari Ward Tackles the Immigrant Experience at Deste Foundation’s Hydra Fete
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/summer-dispatch-1-hydra-2784224
Vatican Museums Launch Major Restoration of Raphael’s Famous Frescoes
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vatican-museums-raphael-frescoes-restoration-1234790506/
Committee Urges Irish Government to Establish New Laws and Policies Related to Restitution
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/committee-urges-irish-government-establish-new-laws-policies-restitution-repatriation-cultural-objects-1234790490/
A Mystery Seller Will Offer $60 M. in Art and Design at Sotheby’s, Including Works by Canaletto, Degas, Guardi, Fragonard, and Picasso
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/sothebys-magnum-opus-auction-mystery-seller-degas-picasso-1234790321/
Misan Harriman to Step Down From Southbank Centre
https://hyperallergic.com/misan-harriman-to-step-down-from-southbank-centre/
US State Department Seeks Designs ‘Exemplifying America’s Exceptionalism’ for Venice Architecture Biennale
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/americas-exceptionalism-at-the-2027-venice-architecture-biennale-1234790489/
William Kentridge and Lapis Blue
https://hyperallergic.com/william-kentridge-and-lapis-blue/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Sotheby's auction of Joe Lewis collection breaks record for most expensive sold in UK
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/25/in-a-boost-for-london-sothebys-evening-sale-of-joe-lewis-collection-becomes-most-expensive-sold-in-uk
How to Make a Sculpture With Sound
https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/tarek-atoui-2781914
Ireland urged to create national panel to evaluate claims for Nazi-era and colonial loot
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/25/ireland-urged-to-create-national-panel-to-evaluate-claims-for-nazi-era-and-colonial-loot
Far-right candidate's election in Colombia clouds future of long-delayed museum devoted to victims of armed conflict
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/25/presidential-election-bogota-museo-de-memoria-colombia
Manifesta 2026 asks what should happen to Germany’s unused churches
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/25/manifesta-16-ruhr-asks-what-should-happen-to-germanys-unused-churches
Paris Museums and Tourist Sites Continue to Limit Hours Amid Record-Breaking Heatwave
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/museums-tourist-sites-paris-limit-hours-record-breaking-heatwave-1234790289/
Misan Harriman to step down as chair of London's Southbank Centre
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/25/misan-harriman-to-step-down-as-chair-of-londons-southbank-centre
British Artist Tess Jaray, Known for Her Hard-Edge Abstractions, Has Died at 88
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tess-jaray-british-hard-edge-abstract-painter-dies-at-88-1234790353/
Judge Gives Trump Administration Deadline to Explain Tarp Covering Kennedy Center
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/judge-trump-deadline-explain-tarp-covering-kennedy-center-1234790317/
Art Basel’s Parent Company, MCH Group, To Launch New Miami Festival in October
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-basel-mch-group-jupiter-festival-miami-october-1234790318/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
$392.6 M. Lewis Collection Sale Smashes Records at Sotheby’s, Led by $63.9 M. Modigliani
https://news.artnet.com/market/392-6-m-lewis-collection-sale-smashes-records-led-by-63-9-m-modigliani-2783495
Crystal Bridges, fresh off major expansion, hires Courtenay Finn as next chief curator
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/24/crystal-bridges-hires-courtenay-finn-chief-curator
Meta and YouTube’s recent losses in youth social media addiction cases may put artists and activists at risk
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/24/meta-youtube-legal-losses-put-artists-activists-risk
Helen Cammock removes film criticising Winston Churchill from London's National Portrait Gallery following complaint
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/24/helen-cammock-video-work-criticising-winston-churchill-removed-from-national-portrait-gallery
Picasso painting recovered in French drug raid was stolen ‘opportunistically’, police source says
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/24/picasso-painting-recovered-in-french-drug-raid-was-stolen-opportunistically-say-police-source
Since the 1960s, Marilou Schultz Has Merged Diné Weaving and Digital Worlds
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/marilou-schultz-candice-hopkins-hessel-museum-dine-weaving-1234790145/
Pratt Manhattan Gallery Moves “Beyond Digital” in New Exhibition
https://hyperallergic.com/pratt-manhattan-gallery-moves-beyond-digital-in-new-exhibition/
In Open Letter, Hundreds of Artists Urge Mayor Mamdani for Two-Year Ban on AI in Classrooms
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/letter-artists-zohran-mamdani-two-year-ban-ai-classrooms-1234790115/
Australian Artist Accused of Copying Work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nicholas Harding
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jane-allan-copying-claims-jean-michel-basquiat-nicholas-harding-1234790157/
Inside the Mind of an Antiquities Looter
https://hyperallergic.com/inside-the-mind-of-an-antiquities-looter/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Smithsonian women’s museum launches augmented reality experience after congressional setback
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/23/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum-augmented-reality-project
Fate of historic murals uncertain following Manhattan homeless shelter’s closure
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/23/bellevue-homeless-shelter-manhattan-wpa-murals-preservation-uncertain
The Netherlands and Germany agree to return more than 2,000 cultural artefacts to Ghana
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/23/the-netherlands-and-germany-to-return-more-than-2000-cultural-artefacts-to-ghana
New Museum and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum Inaugurate Partnership with Ho Tzu Nyen Commission
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-museum-ulsan-art-museum-partnership-ho-tzu-nyen-commission-1234790042/
R.M.S. Titanic’s Plan to Sell Salvaged Artifacts at Auction Faces Ongoing Opposition
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rms-titanic-sell-salvaged-artifacts-auction-ongoing-opposition-1234790045/
Artists Facing Censorship Can Turn to This New Guideline for Guidance
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-facing-censorshipturn-to-this-for-guidance-1234790040/
Pace Gallery’s Hall of Mirrors
https://hyperallergic.com/pace-gallerys-hall-of-mirrors/
Who Will Fight for Artists' Rights in Congress?
https://hyperallergic.com/who-will-fight-for-artists-rights-in-congress/
Hundreds of Artists Ask NYC Mayor to Ban AI in Schools
https://hyperallergic.com/hundreds-of-artists-ask-nyc-mayor-to-ban-ai-in-schools/
Paris Drug Bust Recovers Stolen $17 M. Picasso Canvas
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/paris-drug-bust-recovers-stolen-picasso-1234790016/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
$627 Million London Museum Gets Opening Date—and More Art Industry News
https://news.artnet.com/market/627-million-london-museum-gets-opening-date-and-more-art-industry-news-2782733
What Sold at Art Basel
https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/what-sold-at-art-basel-2782712
‘Artists need to be able to advocate for their own work’: new guide advises artists on navigating censorship
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/22/national-coalition-against-censorship-free-guide-for-artists
Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tate-modern-frida-kahlo-record-advance-tickets-1234789885/
Stolen Picasso Turns Up During Paris Drug Bust
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stolen-picasso-found-paris-drug-raid-2782725
Marc Spiegler Got It All Wrong
https://hyperallergic.com/marc-spiegler-got-it-all-wrong/
vanessa german’s Shrine to Forgotten Black Girls
https://hyperallergic.com/vanessa-germans-shrine-to-forgotten-black-girls/
Israeli Artist Yaacov Agam, Known for His Optical and Kinetic Artworks, Has Died at 98
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/israeli-kinetic-optical-artist-yaacov-agam-dies-1234789922/
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/
In a New Documentary, Artists Get Candid About AI
https://hyperallergic.com/in-a-new-documentary-artists-get-candid-about-ai/