Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Arty Treasures From Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein’s Beach House Come to Auction: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roy-dorothy-lichtenstein-beach-house-artworks-auction-2666069
- Artist Jacky Tsai’s Painting Launches Into Space—Literally: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-jacky-tsais-painting-launches-into-space-literally-2665051
- Want Art But Have No Money? This Art Fair Is for You: https://news.artnet.com/market/zero-art-fair-new-york-free-art-2665995
- Is This a Lost Pollock? No, It’s Ed Sheeran’s Splashy Painting Debut: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ed-sheeran-heni-show-sale-pollock-2666064
- Is It Time To Reconsider the Artistic Value of Ice Age Artifacts?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ice-age-art-2664711
- Good-Bye to All That: I Am Closing My Gallery and Returning to Collecting: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venus-over-manhattan-closing-adam-lindemann-2665314
- Archaeologists Recover Remnants of a Long-Lost Ancient Wonder: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lighthouse-of-alexandria-blocks-recovered-2665823
- Wael Shawky Named Artistic Director of Inaugural Art Basel Qatar: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-qatar-wael-shawky-2664869
- David Hockney Turns 88. He’s Still Smoking, Painting, and Breaking Rules: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/8-times-david-hockney-broke-rules-2638563
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Your weekly dose of wonder: introducing The Specialist, a new podcast by Sotheby's: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/your-weekly-dose-of-wonder-introducing-the-specialist-a-new-podcast-by-sothebys
- Anonymous image makers, New York nights and confronting the colonial: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/anonymous-image-makers-new-york-nights-and-confronting-the-colonial-three-photography-shows-to-see-at-les-rencontres-darles
- A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/natural-history-museum-to-display-dinosaur-fossil-after-london-gallery-helps-secure-buyer
- Art Basel Qatar names Wael Shawky as artistic director of unconventional inaugural edition: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/art-basel-qatar-names-wael-shawky-as-artistic-director-of-unconventional-inaugural-edition
- Sunstroke and protocol faux pas: works by royal tour artists go on show at Buckingham Palace: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/sunstroke-and-protocol-faux-pas-works-by-royal-tour-artists-go-on-show-at-buckingham-palace
- 'The idea is to breathe new life into the space': Didier Fusillier, the president of the newly reopened Grand Palais, on his vision for the Parisian institution: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/the-idea-is-to-breathe-new-life-into-the-space-didier-fusillier-the-president-of-the-newly-reopened-grand-palais-on-his-vision-for-the-parisian-institution
- Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/kew-gardens-to-host-largest-ever-open-air-henry-moore-show
- Remembering Thomas Neurath, who brought single-minded energy and intellectual bravura to leading the publishers Thames & Hudson: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/remembering-thomas-neurath-who-brought-single-minded-energy-and-intellectual-bravura-to-leading-the-publishers-thames-hudson
- ‘Our pattern, our document’: this Indigenous Australian community is using design to assert its rights: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/09/our-pattern-our-document-indigenous-australian-community-using-design-assert-rights
ARTnews.com
- Amazon Prime Day Deals on Tools for Artists, Writers, and Craftspeople: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/product-recommendations/prime-day-sales-on-studio-basics-1234573495/
- The Summer Group Show Isn’t Dead—But the Calculus Around It Is Changing: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-summer-group-shows-new-york-city-1234747129/
- Supreme Court Ruling Advances Trump’s Plan for Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/supreme-court-ruling-advances-trumps-plan-for-mass-layoffs-of-federal-workers-1234747084/
- Adam Lindemann to Close His Venus Over Manhattan Gallery to Focus on Collecting: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/adam-lindeman-to-close-venus-over-manhattan-1234747091/
- Ed Sheeran Is Selling Prints of His Jackson Pollock Rip-Off Paintings for $1,200 Each: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ed-sheeran-paintings-jackson-pollock-heni-1234747085/
- Crystal Bridges and Art Bridges Acquire 90 Works of Contemporary Native Art: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/crystal-bridges-art-bridges-horseman-collection-native-art-1234747066/
- Art Basel Selects Artist Wael Shawky to Lead Forthcoming Qatar Fair: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-basel-qatar-wael-shawky-artistic-director-1234747075/
Hyperallergic
- Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike: https://hyperallergic.com/1026904/penn-museum-workers-vote-to-authorize-strike/
- Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for “Defaming” Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial: https://hyperallergic.com/1026680/gao-zhen-chinese-artist-detained-for-defaming-mao-looks-ahead-to-trial/
- In a Culture of Silence, a Berlin Initiative Speaks Up for Palestine: https://hyperallergic.com/1023064/in-a-culture-of-silence-the-spore-initiative-berlin-speaks-up-for-palestine/
- The Wild, Inclusive Brilliance of New York’s Pyramid Club: https://hyperallergic.com/1026875/the-wild-inclusive-brilliance-of-new-york-pyramid-cocktail-lounge/
- How the Roman Empire Saw the World Through Art: https://hyperallergic.com/1026779/how-the-roman-empire-saw-the-world-through-art/
