Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- The New Rules of Subculture: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/the-new-rules-of-subculture-2642595
- Ilana Savdie’s Shapeshifting Worlds Thrive on Mimicry and Metamorphosis: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ilana-savdies-shapeshifting-worlds-2646636
- Masterpieces From Saunders Collection Rake in More Than $65 Million at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/saunders-collection-old-masters-sothebys-2613872
- Dazzling Tiffany Stained-Glass Window Finds a New Home at Crystal Bridges Museum: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tiffany-window-crystal-bridges-museum-2648343
- BTS Fans Welcome Band’s Return With Art Show—and a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World: https://news.artnet.com/market/state-of-play-asia-art-world-news-may-22-2648226
- This 6th-Century Bucket Discovered at Sutton Hoo Is More Than It Seems: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sutton-hoo-bromeswell-bucket-not-bucket-2648124
- Abraham Lincoln’s Bloodied Gloves Fetch a Stunning $1.5 Million at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/auction-abraham-lincoln-memorabilia-2629104
- Waddington’s Landmark Auction Spotlights Indigenous and Canadian Masterworks: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/waddingtons-auction-2646198
- Lotus L. Kang on Channeling Poetry, Memory, and Spirits Into Her New Work: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lotus-l-kang-on-channeling-poetry-memory-and-spirits-into-her-new-work-2646703
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Interiors of former Whitney Museum building landmarked ahead of Sotheby's move-in: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/marcel-breuer-whitney-building-sothebys-945-madison-interiors-landmarked
- Three ancient artefacts from Metropolitan Museum returned to Iraq: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/metropolitan-museum-repatriates-three-mesopotamian-antiquities-iraq
- 2,500-year-old bird bone tubes used to snort hallucinogens discovered in Peru: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/peru-bone-tubes-hallucinogens-chavin-de-huantar-archaeology
- Recently discovered and restored Artemisia Gentileschi painting will go on view at the Getty in Los Angeles: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/getty-restoration-artemisia-gentileschi-beirut-explosion
- Football great Lionel Messi chooses favourite goal for Refik Anadol to transform into an AI portrait for charity: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/football-great-lionel-messi-chooses-favourite-goal-for-refik-anadol-to-transform-into-an-ai-portrait-for-charity
- Lee Ufan donates eight paintings to Dia Art Foundation: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/lee-ufan-donation-dia-art-foundation-exhibition-avant-arte
- Untitled Art reveals exhibitors for inaugural Houston fair: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/untitled-art-houston-fair-inaugural-exhibitor-lineup
- ‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/art-is-an-important-way-of-depicting-these-atrocities-londons-imperial-war-museum-shines-a-light-on-sexual-violence-in-conflict
- Comment | Are museums ‘guilt tripping’ their visitors? No, they aren’t doing enough: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/are-museums-guilt-tripping-their-visitors-no-they-are-not-doing-enough
- Private museum in Pakistan becomes the first to honour a rich textiles heritage: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/private-museum-in-pakistan-becomes-the-first-to-honour-a-rich-textiles-heritage
- Washington, DC Jewish Museum ‘heartbroken’ by deadly shooting: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/two-israeli-embassy-staff-shot-dead-outside-washington-jewish-museum
- Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/national-gallery-art-washington-dc-little-beasts-flemish-naturalists-insects-animals
ARTnews.com
- Van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ Features in Pope Leo’s First General Address: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pope-leo-first-general-address-van-gogh-sower-at-sunset-1234743440/
- Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands Launches Campaign Against the Guggenheim Museum Expansion in Spain: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mediterranean-alliance-for-wetlands-campaign-against-guggenheim-museum-expansion-spain-1234743366/
- The Met Fails to Honor Lorna Simpson as an Exceptional Painter: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/lorna-simpson-met-museum-painting-survey-review-1234743323/
- Sean Combs May Lose $21 M. Kerry James Marshall If He’s Found Guilty: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sean-combs-diddy-may-lose-kerry-james-marshall-painting-1234743296/
- Untitled Art Names 84 Exhibitors for Inaugural Houston Edition: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/untitled-art-houston-2025-exhibitor-list-1234743160/
- Debate Rages over Whether Rediscovered Klimt Painting Was ‘Smuggled’ out of Hungary: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rediscovered-klimt-painting-tefaf-maastricht-export-debate-1234743209/
- Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed by Gunman Outside Capital Jewish Museum: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/two-israeli-embassy-staff-killed-upon-leaving-capital-jewish-museum-in-washington-d-c-1234743269/
- Giulia Crețulescu Makes Synthetic Fabric Sexy: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/giulia-cretulescu-fiber-art-sexy-1234743086/
Hyperallergic
- School of Visual Arts Faculty Are Officially Unionized: https://hyperallergic.com/1014781/school-of-visual-arts-faculty-are-officially-unionized/
- Hit by Federal Grant Losses, NYC Culture Orgs Ask for More City Funding: https://hyperallergic.com/1014432/hit-by-federal-grant-losses-nyc-culture-orgs-ask-for-more-city-funding/
- Care and Connection Are at the Heart of the 2025 Hawai‘i Triennial: https://hyperallergic.com/1013960/care-and-connection-are-at-the-heart-of-the-2025-hawaii-triennial/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1014439/a-view-from-the-easel-286/
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1014638/required-reading-734/
- Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Fatally Shot Outside DC Museum: https://hyperallergic.com/1014821/two-israeli-embassy-staffers-fatally-shot-outside-dc-museum/
- East West Players Brings Asian-American Stories Into the Limelight: https://hyperallergic.com/1012211/east-west-players-brings-asian-american-stories-into-the-limelight/
- Moss Galleries Resurrects the Visionary Work of John Hultberg: https://hyperallergic.com/1014579/moss-galleries-resurrects-visionary-work-of-john-hultberg/
- Rhode Island School of Design Presents Grad Show 2025: https://hyperallergic.com/1014311/rhode-island-school-of-design-presents-grad-show-2025/
