Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Barbara Gladstone’s $12 Million Chelsea Townhouse Is for Sale: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/barbara-gladstones-12-million-chelsea-townhouse-is-for-sale-2655218
- Who Is Sotheby’s Silly New Clothing Collection For? We’ve Got a Few Ideas: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sothebys-frame-clothing-collection-2655177
- A.I. Analysis Rewrites the Timeline of the Dead Sea Scrolls: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dead-sea-scrolls-older-than-we-thought-ai-2655129
- Caravaggio’s Earliest Painting Has Been Found, Expert Claims: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/earliest-known-caravaggio-painting-2654832
- Has London’s Art Scene Hit a Saturation Point?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/londons-art-scene-saturation-point-2654203
- A Rare Rodin Sculpture, Lost for Over a Century, Fetches $1.2 Million at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/rare-rodin-sculpture-fetches-1-million-2654927
- Are Priceless Frida Kahlo Artworks Missing? Ex-Museum Head Drops Bombshell Allegations: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frida-kahlo-art-missing-at-casa-azul-allegations-2654311
- East Hampton’s White Room Gallery Is Ready for a Rollicking Summer: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-white-room-gallery-east-hampton-2654327
- Smithsonian Rebuffs Trump’s Attempt to Fire Portrait Gallery Director: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-arts-impact-2639197
- This Rare Portrait of the Young Dalai Lama Just Smashed Auction Records: https://news.artnet.com/market/work-of-the-week-krishna-kanwal-2653113
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Prosecution of gallerist under UK’s Terrorism Act should serve as ‘warning to all art dealers’, says Metropolitan Police: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/10/prosecution-of-gallerist-under-uks-terrorism-act-should-serve-as-warning-to-all-art-dealers-says-metropolitan-police
- Education union calls on schools to boycott London's Science Museum over ‘image-laundering’ sponsorship deals: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/10/education-union-calls-on-schools-to-boycott-londons-science-museum-over-image-laundering-sponsorship-deals
- Smithsonian asserts authority to make ‘all personnel decisions’ following Trump attempts to fire gallery director: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/10/smithsonian-asserts-authority-to-make-all-personnel-decisions-following-trump-attempts-to-fire-gallery-director
- New Frida Kahlo museum to open in Mexico City: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/10/new-frida-kahlo-museum-mexico-city-casa-roja
Art Business News
- NAVIGATING EVOLVING RISKS IN PROTECTING PERSONAL ART COLLECTIONS: https://artbusinessnews.com/2025/06/navigating-evolving-risks-in-protecting-personal-art-collections/
ARTnews.com
- Günther Uecker, ZERO Artist Who Made Abstractions from Nails, Dies at 95: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gunther-uecker-zero-artist-dead-1234744874/
- Jerry Gogosian to Wind Down Popular Art World Instagram: ‘I Have Grown Out of It’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jerry-gogosian-winds-down-instagram-hilde-lynn-helphenstein-1234744817/
- Donald Judd Foundation in Marfa Listed on National Register: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/donald-judd-foundation-marfa-national-historic-sites-1234744801/
- ‘Copy’ of Mable Rodin Sculpture Sells for $1 M. at Auction in France: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mable-auguste-rodin-sculpture-despair-auction-rouillac-1234744744/
- Looted Antiquities from Syria Are Being Sold on Facebook Marketplace: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/looted-antiquities-sold-facebook-marketplace-palmyra-syria-1234744748/
- Smithsonian Stands Up to Trump, MOCA Closes its Geffen Branch Amid Protests, Is Putin’s Daughter Dealing Art?: Morning Links for June 10, 2025: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-stands-up-to-trump-moca-closes-its-geffen-branch-amid-protests-is-putins-daughter-dealing-art-morning-links-for-june-10-2025-1234744759/
- France to Charge Non-Europeans $10 Tax to See the Mona Lisa: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/france-hikes-museum-fees-non-europeans-1234744753/
- UK’s Largest Education Union Joins Calls for Boycott of Science Museum Over Controversial Funding: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/science-museum-boycott-education-union-funding-1234744746/
- Maura Brewer Turns Money Laundering into Art: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/maura-brewer-money-laundering-art-1234744709/
- Grace Hartigan’s Artistic Kinship with Midcentury Poets: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/grace-hartigan-gift-of-attention-exhibition-nc-museum-of-art-1234744621/
Hyperallergic
- A Visual Archive of Diasporican Liberation: https://hyperallergic.com/1019108/a-visual-archive-of-diasporican-liberation/
- Nadya Tolokonnikova Builds a Prison of Her Own: https://hyperallergic.com/1019147/nadya-tolokonnikova-builds-a-prison-of-her-own-geffen-contemporary/
- UChicago MFA Students’ Offbeat Aesthetics: https://hyperallergic.com/1019387/uchicago-2025-mfa-students-offbeat-aesthetics/
- How Huguette Caland and Hai-Wen Lin Listen to the Body: https://hyperallergic.com/1015612/how-huguette-caland-and-hai-wen-lin-listen-to-the-body/
- Smithsonian Pushes Back Against Trump’s Meddling in Defiant Statement: https://hyperallergic.com/1019271/smithsonian-pushes-back-against-donald-trump-meddling-in-defiant-statement/
