Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ Crashed Into Art History—and Changed It: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/three-things-hokusai-great-wave-2367449
- A Manet Masterpiece, Divided for a Century, Is Reunited in London: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/manet-paintings-reunited-2608628
- Will Cotton Knows His Sugar-Spun World Isn’t For Everyone. He’s Too Determined to Care: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/will-cotton-templon-2650441
- From Polka-Dots to Pumpkins—7 Yayoi Kusama Works to Know: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-yayoi-kusama-works-to-know-2637394
- The Round-Up: A Crypto Billionaire’s Lawsuit, Koons’s Hulk Blasts Back, the Art Basel Awards: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/justin-sun-lawsuit-david-geffen-jeff-koons-hulk-2642600
- A Sprawling Seaside Castle Where Renoir Once Summered Hits the Market: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/castle-where-renoir-summered-hits-market-2650723
- Why Did Tilda Swinton Nap in a Glass Casket at MoMA?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-why-tilda-swinton-napped-moma-2618812
- The Personal Archives of the Trailblazing Artist Pacita Abad Find a Permanent Home: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pacita-abad-archives-stanford-university-2650508
- 5 Rediscoveries Transforming Black Art Narratives: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/5-rediscoveries-transforming-black-art-narratives-2643422
- David Lynch’s Personal Artifacts—From Cameras to Coffee Cups—Are Up for Grabs: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-lynch-collection-auction-2650551
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Augmented reality enjoys growing appeal as a tool for the art trade: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/augmented-reality-growing-appeal-art-market
- Louvre to return 258 works to Fondation des Artistes: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/louvre-to-return-250-works-from-rothschild-bequest
- June's must-see exhibitions: copycats, queer resistance, and the intersection of art and fashion: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/junes-must-see-exhibitions-copycats-seeing-double-and-the-intersection-of-art-and-fashion
- At Kunsthalle Praha, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are reunited in art, as they were in life: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/at-kunsthalle-praha-anna-eva-bergman-and-hans-hartung-are-reunited-in-art-as-they-were-in-life
- Steamy scenes in urban underworlds were Edward Burra’s great subject—now they're coming to Tate Britain: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/steamy-scenes-in-urban-underworlds-were-edward-burras-great-subjectnow-theyre-coming-to-the-tate
- The Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates France’s ‘king of fashion’, who married haute couture to art: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/the-musee-des-arts-decoratifs-celebrates-frances-king-of-fashion-who-married-haute-couture-to-art
- Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses photography to tell stories queer resistance and love: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/amid-a-wave-of-political-hostility-towards-the-getty-center-explores-stories-queer-resistance-and-loving-relationships
- Copy that: in a new exhibition, one hundred artists reinterpret Louvre masterpieces: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/copy-that-in-a-new-exhibition-one-hundred-artists-reinterpret-louvre-masterpieces
- Ancient rock art site under threat as Australian government provisionally extends 'carbon bomb' gas project: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/worlds-oldest-rock-art-site-under-threat-as-australian-government-provisionally-extends-carbon-bomb-gas-project
- Museum openings: V&A East Storehouse and the Met’s Rockefeller Wing, plus Rachel Whiteread at Goodwood Art Foundation—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/museum-openings-va-east-storehouse-and-the-mets-rockefeller-wing-plus-rachel-whiteread-at-goodwood-art-foundationpodcast
- An exhibition in a most extraordinary building explores Japan’s love for Van Gogh: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/japans-love-for-van-gogh-an-exhibition-in-a-most-extraordinary-museum-building
- ‘A homage to heritage’: first-of-its kind collaboration between museum and football team celebrated with documentary: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/hometown-hero-first-of-its-kind-collaboration-between-museum-and-football-team-celebrated-with-documentary
- Is Banksy getting personal? New lighthouse mural prompts speculation over its philosophical meaning: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/is-banksy-getting-personal-new-lighthouse-mural-prompts-speculation-over-its-philosophical-meaning
- Three tombs dating back more than 3,000 years uncovered close to Egypt's Valley of the Kings: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/three-tombs-dating-back-more-than-3000-years-uncovered-close-to-egypts-valley-of-the-kings
- Uzbekistan's inaugural Bukhara biennial promises to explore art, craft and emotion through food: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/uzbekistans-inaugural-bukhara-biennial-promises-to-explore-art-craft-and-emotion-through-food
- Los Angeles dealer Ariel Pittman launching new gallery in MacArthur Park: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/29/ariel-pittman-dealer-launching-official-welcome-gallery-los-angeles
ARTnews.com
- How to Be a Culture Worker in Times Like These: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/how-to-be-culture-worker-democracy-freedom-disobedience-avalanche-1234743652/
- A New David Hammons Book Will Challenge You, Scold You, Flirt with You: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/david-hammons-artist-book-hauser-wirth-1234743679/
- James Rondeau Returns as Director of Art Institute of Chicago Following Plane Incident: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/james-rondeau-returns-as-director-of-art-institute-of-chicago-following-plane-incident-1234743873/
- Centre Pompidou to Open New Brazil Satellite, the Museum’s First in South America: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/centre-pompidou-brazil-satellite-1234743858/
- D.C. Street Where Abstract Painter Alma Thomas Lived and Worked Renamed in Her Honor: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/washington-dc-street-renamed-alma-thomas-way-1234743798/
- Banksy’s Back with a Lighthouse, and No Clue to its Location: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/banksy-sentimental-lighthouse-1234743815/
- Louvre to Return 258 Works from Rothschild Cabinet of Curiosities: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-to-return-258-works-from-rothschild-cabinet-of-curiosities-1234743810/
- Why Leah Ke Yi Zheng Dropped Out of Law School to Make Art: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/leah-ke-yi-zheng-painting-new-talent-1234743480/
Hyperallergic
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1016029/required-reading-735/
- Tamara Lanier on Her Historic Victory Against Harvard University: https://hyperallergic.com/1016488/tamara-lanier-on-her-historic-victory-against-harvard-university/
- How to Get a Read on Rashid Johnson: https://hyperallergic.com/1016391/how-to-get-a-read-on-rashid-johnson-guggenheim-museum/
- A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope: https://hyperallergic.com/1016470/a-new-banksy-mural-is-a-beacon-of-nope/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1015795/a-view-from-the-easel-287/
- Plásmata 3: We’ve met before, haven’t we?: https://hyperallergic.com/1015971/plasmata-3-weve-met-before-havent-we/
- Wen-Jen Deng: The Embedded Stitch: https://hyperallergic.com/1014894/wen-jen-deng-embedded-stitch-contemporary-fiber-art-from-taiwan/
