Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Think You Know ‘The Thinker’? There’s More to Rodin’s Iconic Sculpture Than Meets the Eye: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rodins-the-thinker-history-2649667
- From a Cipher Machine to Rare Documents—WWII Artifacts Hit the Auction Block: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/world-war-ii-documents-and-artifacts-auction-2652068
- Still Life Painter Clara Peeters’s Only Known Self-Portrait Comes to Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/clara-peeters-only-self-portrait-comes-to-auction-2649481
- Amid Censorship Outcry, Whitney Museum ‘Pauses’ Its Storied Independent Study Program: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-museum-paused-independent-study-program-censorship-2651955
- How Have Women Been Represented in Modern Art? A New Exhibition Shines a Light on the Thorny Topic: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bode-galerie-the-woman-in-art-muse-and-creator-2650722
- China’s Famed Terracotta Warriors Damaged by Museum Visitor: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/terracotta-army-damaged-2651752
- Italian Museum to Restore Ancient Etruscan Treasure in Public View: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/etruscan-sarcophagus-spouses-restoration-rome-2651594
- Step Into the Met’s Radically Reimagined Rockefeller Wing: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/metropolitan-museum-of-art-rockefeller-wing-reopening-2647607
- Louvre to Return 258 Erroneously Gifted Artworks—and More Art Industry News: https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jun-2-2651753
- Do Artists Need Galleries?: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jun-2-2651704
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Seven years after brutal fire, National Museum of Brazil to partially reopen: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/national-museum-brazil-partial-reopening-devastating-fire
- ‘The pain has become unbearable’: Tel Aviv Museum of Art workers stage daily protest outside the institution: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/tel-aviv-museum-art-workers-daily-protest-israel-hamas-war
- A rare dining set by Claude Lalanne and a childhood portrait of the Dalai Lama: our pick of the June auctions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/object-lessons-claude-lalanne-dining-set-dalai-lama-portrait
- London Gallery Weekend 2025: the best shows for photography lovers: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/london-gallery-weekend-2025-the-best-shows-for-photography-lovers
- British Museum faces internal criticism over private Israel independence day event: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/british-museum-faces-internal-criticism-over-israel-independence-day-event
- Berlin museums’ first woman leader plans to tackle reforms and construction: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/berlin-museums-first-woman-leader-plans-to-tackle-reforms-and-construction
- China’s terracotta army reportedly ‘damaged’ by museum visitor: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/chinas-terracotta-army-damaged-by-museum-visitor
- Must-see exhibitions and must-read books on Korean art: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/must-see-exhibitions-and-must-read-books-on-korea-art
- Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/che-onejoon-the-afroasia-collective-is-now-more-important-to-me-than-my-personal-art
- Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/sun-woo-im-interested-in-how-the-body-navigates-unfamiliar-territory
- Choi Goen: ‘My work always begins with discovering a material’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/choi-goen-my-work-always-begins-with-discovering-a-material
- Jewyo Rhii: ‘If you don’t die today, you get another opportunity to live’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/jewyo-rhii-if-you-dont-die-today-you-get-another-opportunity-to-live
- ikkibawiKrrr: ‘We spend a lot of time visiting sites and being with people’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/ikkibawikrrr-we-spend-a-lot-of-time-visiting-sites-and-being-with-people
- The Wallace Collection appoints Selldorf Architects to lead masterplan to transform its historic London home: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/wallace-collection-appoints-selldorf-architects-lead-masterplan-transform-historic-london-home
- Min ha Park: ‘I think about creating situations where things don’t immediately
explain themselves’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/min-ha-park-i-think-about-creating-situations-where-things-dont-immediatelyexplain-themselves
- Minae Kim on creating a ‘ludicrous sculptural sitcom’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/minae-kim-on-creating-a-ludicrous-sculptural-sitcom
- Korean artists are taking the world by storm—but why does their work resonate so widely?: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/korean-artists-are-taking-the-world-by-stormbut-why-does-their-work-resonate-so-widely
- Byungjun Kwon: ‘I want to break away from the passive, one-sided way of experiencing performances’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/byungjun-kwon-i-want-to-break-away-from-the-passive-one-sided-way-of-experiencing-performances
- Spate of wins for racehorses named after superstar painters: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/spate-of-wins-for-horses-named-after-french-superstar-painters
- Comment | In the Trump era, LGBTQ+ communities and culture need support: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/lgbtq-pride-month-leader-dave-harper-trump-era
- New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/02/new-videos-of-african-cultural-sites-rockefeller-wing-the-met
ARTnews.com
- Ancient Rock Art Site in Australia Under Threat After Government Extends Life of Nearby Gas Mega-Plant: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-rock-art-australia-woodside-energy-burrup-peninsula-1234744046/
- Whitney Museum Pauses Independent Study Program After Cancellation of Pro-Palestine Performance and Backlash: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/isp-alumni-open-letter-whitney-museum-palestine-performance-1234744083/
- At 98, Thaddeus Mosley Is Still Building His Forest of Wood Sculptures: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/thaddeus-mosley-new-york-wood-sculptures-1234744085/
- MoMA PS1 Chief Curator Ruba Katrib Talks ‘The Gatherers’ Exhibition and What Art Can and Can’t Do: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/ruba-katrib-moma-ps1-the-gatherers-exhibition-interview-1234744012/
- Holocaust Museum and Three Synagogues Vandalized with Green Paint in Paris: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/holocaust-museum-synagogues-vandalized-green-paint-paris-1234744059/
- British Museum Criticized by Staffers for Allowing Israeli Embassy to Host Party Celebrating Israel’s Independence: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-israel-embassy-party-petitiion-backlash-1234744056/
- Two Terracotta Warriors Damaged By Tourist at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in China: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/terracotta-warriors-china-damage-tourist-mausoleum-qin-shi-huang-1234744034/
- These Are the US Art Schools Most Dependent on International Students: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-art-schools-international-students-1234743928/
- 26 Masterpieces to See at the Palace of Versailles: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/palace-of-versailles-masterpieces-to-see-1234739898/
- Tate Britain and National Portrait Gallery Buy Work by ‘Britain’s Caravaggio,’ Banksy’s Lighthouse Mural Defaced, Paris Holocaust Museum Vandalized: Morning Links for June 2, 2025: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tate-and-national-portrait-gallery-buy-work-by-britains-caravaggio-banksys-lighthouse-mural-defaced-paris-holocaust-museum-vandalized-morning-links-for-june-2-2025-1234744031/
Hyperallergic
- The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: June 2025: https://hyperallergic.com/1017617/the-hyperallergic-art-crossword-june-2025/
- Four New York City Shows to See Right Now: https://hyperallergic.com/1016018/four-new-york-city-shows-to-see-june-3-2025/
- The Smithsonian Design Triennial Reinvents Home: https://hyperallergic.com/1016899/smithsonian-design-triennial-2025-reinvents-home/
- We’re Not Your Pride Publicity Stunt: https://hyperallergic.com/1017623/were-not-your-pride-publicity-stunt/
- A New Frida Kahlo Museum Is Coming to Mexico City: https://hyperallergic.com/1017587/a-new-frida-kahlo-museum-is-coming-to-mexico-city/
- Opportunities in June 2025: https://hyperallergic.com/1017087/opportunities-june-2025/
- Whitney Museum Suspends Independent Study Program: https://hyperallergic.com/1017569/whitney-museum-suspends-independent-study-program/
- Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity: https://hyperallergic.com/1016476/ben-shahn-on-nonconformity/
