Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Louvre Launches Design Contest for $400 Million Expansion, Including a New Room for ‘Mona Lisa’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-launches-design-contest-for-400-million-expansion-including-a-new-room-for-mona-lisa-2662261
- Poland’s 6,000-Year-Old Venus of Kołobrzeg Deemed ‘The Find of the Century’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/polish-venus-of-kolobrzeg-2662194
- Picasso’s Storied Ceramics Studio to Reopen as Museum: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/picasso-ceramics-studio-reopens-2662100
- Marie Antoinette’s Fabulous Pink Diamond Sets a World Record at Christie’s: https://news.artnet.com/market/marie-antoinette-pink-diamond-christies-2653190
- Greece Rallies Global Allies to Reclaim the Parthenon Marbles: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/parthenon-marbles-update-2662028
- Museum Raises $127,000 in 5 Days to Buy Rediscovered Turner Masterpiece: https://news.artnet.com/market/turner-rediscovered-masterpiece-auction-2653461
- Flush with Cash? Performance Space New York Will Let You Name a Bathroom Stall: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bathroom-stall-performance-space-new-york-2661549
- Which Artists Are Big at U.S. Museums This Month? I Scoured Hundreds of Shows to Find Out: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-artist-ranking-june-2025-2661244
- Egyptologists Unearth a Forgotten Ancient City in the Nile Delta: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/egyptologists-rediscover-imet-delta-city-2661567
- What’s Moving—and What’s Not—in Today’s Art Market: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/princedale-modern-edward-warburton-2661083
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Exhibition in Abu Dhabi marks collaboration between Korean and Emirati institutions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/layered-medium-korean-art-exhibition-manarat-al-saadiyat-abu-dhabi
- Trump dances with Jeffrey Epstein in new National Mall sculpture: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/donald-trump-dances-jeffrey-epstein-national-mall-sculpture
- Key player in Norval Morrisseau forgery ring pleads guilty: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/norval-morrisseau-forgery-ring-james-white-guilty-plea
- ‘We are sleepwalking into an intolerable state of affairs’: Mark Wallinger unveils anti-fascist work at Glastonbury Festival: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/we-are-sleepwalking-into-an-intolerable-state-of-affairs-mark-wallinger-unveils-anti-fascist-work-at-glastonbury-festival
- The Royal Academy’s Kiefer-Van Gogh show offers a soaring spectacle: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/the-ras-kiefer-van-gogh-show-offers-a-soaring-spectacle
- A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/art-market-super-group-establishes-management-consultancy-as-industry-enters-new-era
- Open-air museum that recreates 1950s Britain wins Art Fund Museum of the Year prize: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/open-air-museum-that-recreates-1950s-britain-wins-art-fund-museum-of-the-year-prize
- Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/arthur-jafa-mark-leckey-cecilia-alemani-site-santa-fe-trisha-brown-robert-rauschenberg-podcast
- English Heritage chief steps down after a turbulent 18 months in post: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/27/english-heritage-chief-steps-down-after-a-turbulent-18-months-in-post
ARTnews.com
- Why Is That Revealing Photograph of Lorde Going Viral?: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lorde-virgin-vinyl-photograph-talia-chetrit-1234746362/
- Vancouver Art Gallery Lays Off 30 Unionized Employees: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vancouver-art-gallery-lays-off-30-unionized-employees-1234746371/
- Mystery Artists Return With Trump Dance Sculpture on the National Mall: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mystery-artists-return-with-trump-dance-sculpture-1234746367/
- Why Is Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory So Important?: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/salvador-dali-the-persistence-of-memory-why-so-important-1234745589/
- 25 Trans Artists Breaking Boundaries: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/trans-artists-to-know-1234746233/
- Liz Collins Finds Transcendence Through Labor-Intensive Fiber Art: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/liz-collins-fiber-art-risd-museum-venice-biennale-1234746310/
- A Supergroup of Art Market Veterans Have Formed A Consultancy to Solve High-Level Art World Problems: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/phillip-hoffman-ed-dolman-patti-wong-consultancy-new-perspectives-1234746137/
- English Heritage Boss Steps Down After Proposing Severe Job Cuts: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/english-heritage-nick-merriman-steps-down-1234746351/
Hyperallergic
- Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair: https://hyperallergic.com/1023837/anna-wintour-to-remain-met-gala-chair/
- Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone: https://hyperallergic.com/1023753/tourist-denied-us-entry-after-ice-found-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone/
- Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum: https://hyperallergic.com/1023398/lisa-yuskavages-genre-defying-works-on-paper-morgan-library-and-museum/
- Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: https://hyperallergic.com/1022705/funding-for-mfa-students-the-90000-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-for-new-americans/
