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.
EU imposes sanctions on Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of Russia's State Hermitage Museum
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/29/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-mikhail-piotrovsky-director-of-russias-state-hermitage-museum
Ittai Gradel, gems expert who uncovered British Museum thefts, dies aged 61
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/29/ittai-gradel-gems-expert-uncovered-british-museum-thefts-died-aged-61
Why London’s Whitechapel Gallery Hired an Economist
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitechapel-gallery-economist-2768633
Comment | The slopification of political art
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/29/slopification-political-art-press-any-key-to-continue
East Africa meets Western Europe as Michael Armitage takes on Venice's Palazzo Grassi
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/29/east-africa-meets-western-europe-as-michael-armitage-takes-on-venices-palazzo-grassi
Venice Bound? Here’s All the News You Need to Know About This Year’s Biennale
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/news-explainer-venice-biennale-2758682
Duo Who Sold Fake Warhol, Banksy Plead Guilty in $2M Fraud
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/father-daughter-forgery-scheme-2768661
Reclaiming the Self-Taught Artist’s Creative Identity
https://hyperallergic.com/self-made-american-folk-art-museum/
How Will the Venice Biennale Impact Alma Allen’s Market?
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/alma-allen-venice-biennale-us-pavilion-market-1234783155/
George Herms, Titan of West Coast Assemblage, Dies at 90
https://hyperallergic.com/george-herms-titan-of-west-coast-assemblage-dies-at-90/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Art Basel Curbs Pre-Fair Sales—and More Art Industry News
https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-apr-27-2768017
The Art Trade Is Taking Calculated Risks With A.I.
https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-apr-27-2768000
Towering homage to Bamiyan Buddhas rises over Manhattan’s High Line
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/27/towering-homage-to-bamiyan-buddhas-rises-over-manhattans-high-line
Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/digital-art-pioneer-nancy-burson-mysticism-quantum-physics-1234782713/
Sharjah Biennial Lines Up 109 Artists for 2027 Edition, Titled ‘What Remains, Sits Restive’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sharjah-biennial-2027-artist-list-1234782699/
Art Show in London Canceled Over Allegations of Antisemitism from Pro-Israel Group
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/matthew-collings-show-london-cancelled-antisemitism-israel-1234782753/
Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/nalini-malani-of-woman-born-venice-1234782739/
Italian Culture Minister Will Not Attend Venice Biennale Opening in Protest of Russia’s Participation
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/italian-culture-minister-protest-venice-biennale-russia-1234782691/
Russia's Venice Pavilion to Close to the Public in Compliance With Sanctions
https://hyperallergic.com/russias-venice-pavilion-to-close-to-the-public-in-compliance-with-sanctions/
The Death of the Art School
https://hyperallergic.com/the-death-of-the-art-school/

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A Smaller Art Brussels Represents a Shift in the Fair Ecosystem Toward a ‘Quality-First’ Approach
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-brussels-2026-report-parloir-fair-1234782661/
An Art Historian’s Riotous Novel Melds Medieval Art with Monica Lewinsky
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/a-new-novel-sees-monica-lewinsky-through-medieval-art-1234782607/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
How Art Firms Are—or Should Be—Using A.I. Right Now
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-adoption-on-the-rise-2767684
How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker What the Apps Won’t: PTO
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/pto-fields-harrington-gustavo-ajche-bike-ps1-greater-ny-1234782540/
LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-box-los-angeles-gallery-closure-1234782658/
Venice, Here We Come
https://hyperallergic.com/venice-here-we-come/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show
https://news.artnet.com/market/metropolitan-museum-raphael-exhibition-2767828
Venice Biennale’s Prize Ban on Israel and Russia Falls Short for Critics
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-awards-ban-2767588
Sonic investigations non-profit to be artist-in-residence at London's Gasworks
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/24/sonic-investigations-non-profit-to-be-artist-in-residence-at-londons-gasworks
Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/refik-anadol-ai-art-museum-dataland-open-los-angeles-june-1234782560/
A Refreshing Turn to Craft at AIPAD's Photography Show
https://hyperallergic.com/a-refreshing-turn-to-craft-at-aipads-photography-show/
Collector Julia Stoschek Closes Down Berlin Exhibition Venue After 10 Years In Favor of International Projects
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-foundation-venue-berlin-1234782594/
Nude Performance at MFA Boston Confronts One of Art’s Oldest Tropes
https://hyperallergic.com/nude-performance-at-mfa-boston-confronts-one-of-arts-oldest-tropes/
A Buddha Is Reborn on the High Line
https://hyperallergic.com/a-buddha-is-reborn-on-the-high-line/
Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bard-leon-botstein-succession-1234782548/
Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue
https://news.artnet.com/market/new-gagosian-gallery-madison-avenue-new-york-2767601

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Refik Anadol’s Dataland Museum Sets an Opening Date
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dataland-refik-anadol-opening-date-2767486
The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/big-review-lacma-david-geffen-galleries
Harmony Korine Makes Sense of His Shape-Shifting Art: ‘It’s Really One Whole Work’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/harmony-korine-ica-miami-2767009
Nominees for the Turner Prize 2026 announced by Tate
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/nominees-for-the-turner-prize-2026-announced-by-tate
Alma Allen Speaks Out on Backlash Over U.S. Pavilion Commission: ‘A Little Stressful’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alma-allen-speaks-out-venice-biennale-backlash-2767092
Comment | Artnet-Artsy merger: 'a Bloomberg for art?'
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/comment-|-how-viable-is-the-artnet-and-artsys-merger
Taiwan Revokes National Art Prize from Sakuliu Pavavaljung After Sexual Assault Conviction
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sakuliu-pavavaljung-taiwan-national-art-prize-revoked-1234782497/
Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-2030-moisture-damage-1234782399/
Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-24-hour-performance-factory-international-1234782448/
Venice Biennale Awards Jury Won’t Consider Russia and Israel
https://hyperallergic.com/venice-biennale-awards-jury-wont-consider-russia-and-israel/

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Yves Saint Laurent’s Lalanne Mirrors Sell for Record-Shattering $33.5 Million
https://news.artnet.com/market/yves-saint-laurent-lalanne-mirrors-de-gunzberg-sale-2762297
Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/antony-gormley-sculpture-quietly-removed-and-sold-off-by-uk-council
The Photography Show fair’s 45th edition explores medium’s full history from its origins to AI
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/the-photography-show-aipad-fair-45th-edition-preview
Caravaggio and Rubens works destroyed by fire in Second World War are brought back to (digital) life
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/caravaggio-and-rubens-works-destroyed-by-fire-in-second-world-war-are-brought-back-to-digital-life
Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery of Art for Lending Program
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/billionaire-mitchell-rales-national-gallery-art-lending-program-1234782323/
Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/panel-recommendation-orphaned-nazi-looted-art-netherlands-1234782335/
Can the V&A’s New Museum Fulfill Its Democratic Promise?
https://hyperallergic.com/can-the-v-as-new-museum-fulfill-its-democratic-promise/
Architectural Competition for Louvre ‘New Renaissance’ Project Reportedly Set to Relaunch in May
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jury-architect-for-louvre-project-set-to-meet-in-may-1234782362/
Trump White House Ballroom Contract Allowed Anonymous Donors, Limited Oversight
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/white-house-ballroom-contract-anonymous-donors-oversight-1234782350/
Venice Biennale’s 2026 Golden Lion Jury to Be Led by Videobrasil Founder
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-2026-golden-lion-jury-1234782325/

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
How Pussy Riot Is Challenging Russia’s Return to the Venice Biennale
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pussy-riot-venice-biennale-bid-2766832
Has A.I. Solved the Mystery of This El Greco Painting?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-el-greco-science-advances-2766875
Lack of accountability after crush of crowds at Haiti’s Citadelle Laferrière kills 25
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/21/haiti-citadelle-laferriere-crowd-crush-stampede-25-dead
Mass shooting at Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site leaves one dead, 13 injured
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/21/teotihuacan-site-mass-shooting
Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s NEON to Conclude After ‘Having Fulfilled Its Mission’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-its-mission-1234782219/
Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates 150,000 Objects to Major Mexico City Museum
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/diego-rivera-grandson-donation-museo-anahuacalli-mexico-city-1234782182/
The Iran War Is Already Tanking Luxury Sales in the Gulf—Could Art Be Next?
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/iran-war-gulf-art-market-luxury-sales-down-1234782132/
What We Loved (And Didn’t) in “Greater New York”
https://hyperallergic.com/what-we-loved-and-didnt-in-greater-new-york/
Barbara Chase-Riboud Speaks Out on Declining US Biennale Pavilion
https://hyperallergic.com/barbara-chase-riboud-speaks-out-on-declining-us-biennale-pavilion/
Barbara Chase-Riboud Says She Declined US Pavilion Offer Because It Was ‘Not the Moment’
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/barbara-chase-riboud-declined-us-pavilion-venice-biennale-1234782052/

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Drum and trumpet with human skulls attached complicate plan for restitution from Los Angeles to Ghana
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/drum-and-trumpet-with-human-skulls-attached-complicate-plan-for-restitution-from-los-angeles-to-ghana
V&A East Launches With a Fresh Lens on a 2.8 Million-Object Collection
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/va-east-opening-2766616
Diego Rivera’s grandson donates more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/diego-rivera-museo-anahuacalli-donation-grandson-150000-objects
US-Israel war on Iran disrupts art transport routes as prices surge
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/us-israel-war-on-iran-disrupts-art-transport-routes-as-prices-surge
Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramović’s New Berlin Mega Show
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marina-abramovic-berlin-exhibition-curator-agnes-gryczkowska-1234781412/
Genesis P-Orridge’s Subversive Mail Art Goes on View
https://hyperallergic.com/genesis-p-orridges-subversive-mail-art-goes-on-view/
James Hayward, West Coast Painter with a Cult Following, Dies at 82
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/james-hayward-painter-dead-1234781960/
Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery
https://hyperallergic.com/mexico-to-divert-train-route-after-cave-art-discovery/
Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Heads to Venice Amid Questions Over Selection Process
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alma-allens-u-s-pavilion-heads-to-venice-1234781956/
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter to Co-Headline ‘Immersive Experience’ at Art Basel
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/daft-punk-thomas-bangalter-art-basel-1234781941/

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Ruins of a ‘Unique‘ Temple Complex Discovered in Northern Sinai
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/unique-2nd-century-bc-temple-discovered-northern-sinai-1234781825/