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 Frick’s New Restaurant Is a Work of Art, Too: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/westmoreland-frick-collection-restaurant-review-2654568
- How Art Busan Became Asia’s Most Promising Art Fair: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-busan-2025-2653879
- Olga de Amaral’s Sumptuous Works Are In Hot Demand, as Textile Art Gains Market Momentum: https://news.artnet.com/market/olga-de-amaral-appraisal-2653746
- French Museums Plan Ticket Price Hike for Non-European Visitors: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/french-museums-hike-ticket-prices-non-european-visitors-2654566
- As National Guard Descends, L.A. Museum Closes—With Pussy Riot Founder Inside: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/moca-los-angeles-geffen-nadya-tolokonnikova-2654494
- Marley Freeman Is Making Abstraction Cool Again: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marley-freeman-karma-2652612
- How Was the Nebra Sky Disk Made? Science May Finally Have the Answer: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-nebra-sky-disc-made-study-2578814
- U.K. Dealer Jailed for Selling Art to Suspected Hezbollah Financier—and More Art Industry News: https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jun-9-2653630
- Antiquities Face More Red Tape: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jun-9-2653576
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Metropolitan Museum and watchmaker Vacheron Constantin launch artist residency: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/metropolitan-museum-vacheron-constantin-residency
- Albanian dictator’s fortress-like palace becomes ‘hub for artistic experimentation’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/albanian-dictators-fortress-like-palace-becomes-hub-for-artistic-experimentation
- Newly attributed Turner painting, last sold for £500, goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with £300,000 estimate: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/newly-attributed-turner-painting-previously-sold-for-£500-goes-under-the-hammer-at-sothebys-with-£300000-estimate
- Peggy Guggenheim's influential—and short-lived—London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and at London's Royal Academy: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/peggy-guggenheims-influentialand-short-livedlondon-gallery-to-be-celebrated-in-new-show-in-venice-and-londons-royal-academy
- Très Riches Heures: Chantilly exhibition offers ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to see famed medieval manuscript: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/medieval-manuscripts-tres-riches-heuresonce-in-a-lifetime-opportunity
- Comment | Most forms of environmental protest are no longer possible—that's where the power of images comes in: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/most-forms-of-environmental-protest-are-no-longer-possiblethats-where-the-power-of-images-comes-in
- Former director claims Frida Kahlo works went missing from Mexico City museum: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/09/alleged-frida-kahlo-works-missing-mexico-city-museum
ARTnews.com
- Smithsonian Institution Subtly Announces It Will Challenge Trump’s ‘Firing’ of National Portrait Gallery Director: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-institution-challenges-kim-sajet-firing-trump-1234744738/
- Trust Overseeing Rivera and Kahlo Estates Accused of Mismanagement: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rivera-kahlo-estate-mismanagement-allegations-1234744688/
- FBI Recovers Two Paintings Missing for 40 Years from University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fbi-recovers-paintings-university-new-mexico-harwood-museum-art-1234744684/
- A New Art Fair, Arrival, Ditches the Basel Frenzy for the Berkshires’ Calm: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/arrival-ditches-the-art-fair-frenzy-for-the-berkshires-1234744661/
- Judge Rules Cuts at Institute of Museum and Library Services Allowed as Lawsuits Proceed: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-restraining-order-overturned-1234744651/
- ‘Dissident-Right Art Hos’ US Pavilion Pitched for Venice Biennale by Far-Right Blogger Curtis Yarvin: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-pavilion-2026-venice-biennale-dissident-right-art-hos-1234744650/
- Beijing Wraps Up Inaugural ‘Art Season,’ Making Bid to Reclaim Top Spot in China’s Art Economy: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/beijing-china-gallery-weekend-art-season-recap-1234744646/
- 10 Key Works in “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939”: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/the-first-homosexuals-exhibition-wrightwood-659-1234743711/
- LGBTQ+ Artists Having Institutional Shows This Pride Month: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/lgbtq-artists-institutional-shows-pride-month-1234672213/
- Who Was Ching Ho Cheng and Why Was He So Important?: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/who-was-ching-ho-cheng-1234744132/
Hyperallergic
- Defining Photos From LA’s Historic Anti-ICE Protests: https://hyperallergic.com/1018989/defining-photos-from-los-angeles-historic-anti-ice-protests/
- Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Arch Reopens After $8.9M Restoration: https://hyperallergic.com/1018689/brooklyn-grand-army-plaza-arch-reopens-after-restoration/
- The Pink Triangle That Mobilized a Movement: https://hyperallergic.com/1018227/act-up-pink-triangle-that-mobilized-a-movement/
- New York City and Upstate Shows to See Right Now: https://hyperallergic.com/1015609/new-york-city-and-upstate-shows-to-see-june-9-2025/
- Tim Hawkinson Makes the Ordinary Otherworldly: https://hyperallergic.com/1018495/tim-hawkinson-makes-the-ordinary-otherworldly/
- Renée Green Questions the Meaning of Meanings: https://hyperallergic.com/1014181/renee-green-questions-the-meaning-of-meanings-dia-beacon/
- New York Society of Women Artists Presents Into the NOW – The Time of Our Lives: https://hyperallergic.com/1018192/new-york-society-of-women-artists-centennial-exhibition-2025/
