Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Recent Old Masters Sales Had Bruising Results—and Surprising Wins. Here Are 4 Takeaways: https://news.artnet.com/market/old-masters-sales-takeaways-art-detective-2649690
- Here’s My Personal Method for Seeing an Art Show, If You Want to Get the Most Out of It: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-to-look-at-art-2650882
- Trump Says He Has Fired the Director of Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-arts-impact-2639197
- Justin Sun Gives $6.2 Million Banana to Notorious Silk Road Founder: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/justin-sun-gave-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-cattelan-banana-2651374
- Liste Art Fair Basel Celebrates 30 Years as a Champion of Emerging Talent: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/liste-art-fair-basel-celebrates-30-years-as-a-champion-of-emerging-talent-2650622
- Art Institute of Chicago Director to Resume Role After Mid-Flight Incident: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-institute-of-chicago-director-on-leave-airline-incident-2640021
- Banksy’s New Artwork in Marseille Offers an Ambiguous, Rueful Message: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/banksy-marseille-lighthouse-2651230
- Inside the V&A East Storehouse, Where the Museum Is the Exhibit: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/inside-va-east-storehouse-2651021
- More Than 100 Hidden Ancient Structures Come to Light in Peru: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/100-hidden-structures-peru-gran-pajaten-lidar-2650852
- The Monument Maker: The World Is Catching Up to Barbara Chase-Riboud: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-monument-maker-barbara-chase-riboud-2650705
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Trump claims he has fired director of US National Portrait Gallery: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/trump-claims-he-has-fired-director-of-us-national-portrait-gallery
- One of New York City’s oldest houses to open as its neighbourhood’s first museum: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/30/new-york-city-historic-lott-house-marine-park-brooklyn-restoration-museum
- 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
ARTnews.com
- Trump Fires National Portrait Gallery Director for Being a ‘Strong Supporter of DEI’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-portrait-gallery-director-fired-trump-1234743964/
- Lorde’s ‘Man of the Year’ Pays Homage to an Iconic New York Land Artwork: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lorde-man-of-the-year-new-york-earth-room-1234743926/
- David Lynch’s Personal Items Hit the Auction Block in Los Angeles: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/david-lynch-personal-items-auction-1234743939/
- Museum Removes Māori Artist’s Work Inviting Viewers to Walk on New Zealand Flag: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/museum-removes-maori-artist-new-zealand-flag-diane-prince-1234743927/
- Japanese Sculptor Kunimasa Aoki Wins 2025 Loewe Craft Prize: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/japanese-sculptor-kunimasa-aoki-wins-2025-loewe-craft-prize-1234743920/
- 3,000-Year-Old Mayan Complex Uncovered in Guatemala: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/maya-complex-uncovered-guatemala-1234743891/
- More Artists Claim They Are Owed Money by London’s Arusha Gallery: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/more-artists-claim-owed-money-london-arusha-gallery-1234743900/
- Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Features a Real Renoir and a Salient Spoof of Art Collecting: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-phoenician-scheme-wes-anderson-renoir-art-collecting-1234743890/
- 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/
Hyperallergic
- Trump Says He Fired National Portrait Gallery Director Over DEI Support: https://hyperallergic.com/1016952/amid-assault-on-the-arts-trump-says-he-fired-national-portrait-gallery-director/
- Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization: https://hyperallergic.com/1016918/joiri-minaya-venus-flytrap-upends-the-allure-of-exoticization/
