Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and For How Much—at Art Basel in Basel 2025: https://news.artnet.com/market/price-check-art-basel-basel-2025-2660511
- Jordan Wolfson’s New Virtual Reality Is Peak Body Horror: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jordan-wolfson-little-room-2659690
- Who Was the Black Figure in This 17th-Century Portrait? A Rare Letter Holds Answers: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/black-portraiture-peregrine-tyam-letter-2657422
- Rare, Mind-Bending M.C. Escher Works Are Up for Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/rare-m-c-escher-works-auction-2660493
- Elizabeth Peyton’s Oasis Portrait Falls Flat at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/work-of-the-week-elizabeth-peytons-liam-noel-2659187
- I Have Seen the ‘Dark Enlightenment Art World’ and It Is Extremely Dorky: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curtis-yarvin-venice-biennale-2660020
- Werner Herzog Anchors Aspen Art Museum’s Bold New Summit: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/aspen-art-museum-air-werner-herzog-2660181
- The Long-Overlooked ‘Queer Queen of Abstraction’ Reclaims the Spotlight: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louise-fishman-van-doren-waxter-2659448
- Lady Pink Transforms MoMA PS1’s Facade Into a Tribute to Graffiti History: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lady-pink-moma-ps1-mural-2660027
- How Curator Andrea von Goetz Built a Creative Haven in the Alps: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curator-andrea-von-goetz-alps-2659767
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/nudes-by-tamara-de-lempicka-and-jenny-saville-lead-quiet-sothebys-modern-and-contemporary-sale
- Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/missing-tom-thomson-painting-waddingtons-auction-lawsuit
- Innovative London drawing fair with no stands stages its second edition: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/the-innovative-london-drawing-fair-that-has-no-stands-stages-its-second-edition
- Art Gallery of Ontario acquires more than 200 Peter Hujar photographs: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/art-gallery-ontario-acquires-peter-hujar-photographs
- Ukrainian Railways and US billionaire Howard Buffett team up to create ‘art train’ exploring war-time resilience: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/ukrainian-railways-us-billionaire-howard-buffett-team-up-art-train-exploring-war-time-resilience
- Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 82: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/nick-hedges-photographer-who-changed-the-way-we-see-homelessness-has-died-aged-82
- Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Giambologna marble sculpture: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/cleveland-museum-art-acquires-giambologna-marble-sculpture
- Amid protests over his extravagant Venetian wedding, Jeff Bezos donates €3m to organisations involved in protecting the city and its ecosystem: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/amid-protests-over-extravagant-venetian-wedding-jeff-bezos-donates-3m-to-organisations-protecting-the-city-and-ecosystem
- London’s Queen Elizabeth II memorial to feature contemplative Yinka Shonibare sculpture: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/londons-queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-to-feature-contemplative-yinka-shonibare-sculpture
- As art market regulations tighten, international dealer association calls for 'unity' across trade: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/24/as-art-market-regulations-tighten-international-dealer-association-calls-for-unity-across-trade
Art Business News
- Art Santa Fe 2025 Spotlights Five Innovative Artists for 25th Anniversary Celebration: https://artbusinessnews.com/2025/06/art-santa-fe-2025-spotlights-five-innovative-artists-for-25th-anniversary-celebration/
ARTnews.com
- No Fireworks, but Women Artists Ensure Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale in London Takes in Respectable $84 M.: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sothebys-london-contemporary-evening-summer-sale-report-1234746083/
- Jeff Koons ‘Split-Rocker’ Sculpture Gifted to LACMA by Lynda and Stewart Resnick: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jeff-koons-split-rocker-lacma-resnicks-1234746066/
- Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer Who Pictured Alienation and Racism, Dies at 95: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rosalind-fox-solomon-photographer-dead-1234746058/
- ‘The Mastermind’ Presents an Art Heist That’s In on the Joke: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/the-mastermind-film-review-kelly-reichardt-josh-oconnor-1234746055/
- A New Video Game Allows You to Repatriate African Artifacts by Looting Western Museum: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/relooted-video-game-repatriation-african-artifacts-1234746041/
- Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Design in London’s St James’s Park Includes Sculpture by Yinka Shonibare: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-memorial-design-london-st-jamess-park-1234746024/
- British Team Uncovers Lost Nile Delta City Built Around Temple and Trade: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archaeologists-uncover-nile-delta-city-egypt-1234746027/
- In Kaleidoscopic Paintings, Aislan Pankararu Communes With His Rural Brazilian Home: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/aislan-pankararu-brazil-new-talent-2025-1234745980/
- Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination, One Poster at a Time: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/guerrilla-girls-feminist-collective-why-so-important-1234745911/
- Banksy Mural Caught in Legal Battle Between Working Man’s Club and One of Its Ex-Employees: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/banksy-mural-lawsuit-bethnal-green-1234746010/
Hyperallergic
- This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum: https://hyperallergic.com/1022702/laura-raicovich-story-of-my-resignation-from-the-queens-museum/
- Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera: https://hyperallergic.com/1022679/stunning-photos-of-the-cosmos-from-the-worlds-largest-digital-camera/
- The Enduring Legacy of ’80s Harlem Drag Balls: https://hyperallergic.com/1022272/the-enduring-legacy-of-80s-harlem-drag-balls/
- Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies: https://hyperallergic.com/1022277/young-joon-kwak-luminescent-bodies-leslie-lohman-museum/
- New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage: https://hyperallergic.com/1019486/new-project-will-map-fire-ravaged-altadenas-cultural-heritage/
- Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox: https://hyperallergic.com/1022419/barbara-t-smith-experiments-in-xerox/
- Lessons on Art and Community From America’s Cultural Treasures: https://hyperallergic.com/1015845/lessons-on-art-community-from-americas-cultural-treasures/
- Design Process in Practice at Pratt Manhattan Gallery: https://hyperallergic.com/1021738/design-process-in-practice-at-pratt-manhattan-gallery/
