Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- How to Think About Homeland Security’s Unhinged Art Posts: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dhs-social-media-art-2673020
- The Round-Up: Johnny Depp Does Modigliani, Labubu Mania, and a Weird Idea for the Venice Biennale: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/the-round-up-depp-labubu-venice-biennale-2673181
- What Market Downturn? At Aspen’s Art Week, Business Booms: https://news.artnet.com/market/aspen-art-week-wet-paint-2673044
- Robert Wilson, Avant-Garde Theater Legend, Dies at 83: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robert-wilson-obituary-2673340
- Blum Gallery’s Sudden End Shocked the Art Industry. What Happened?: https://news.artnet.com/market/insiders-speak-out-blum-gallery-2672563
- What Can a Bunch of Rocks Teach Us About the Future of Architecture?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/architecton-a24-rocks-documentary-2672726
- How This Fintech Platform Is Democratizing Art Collecting, Starting at Just $1: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/arttoo-launch-maria-kreyn-life-on-jupiter-2672921
- Hawaiian Petroglyphs Reemerge for the First Time in Years: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/oahu-hawaii-petroglyphs-reemerge-seasonal-swells-2672994
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Yale University Art Gallery withdraws federal funding applications over anti-diversity regulations: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/31/yale-university-art-gallery-federal-funding-withdrawal-diversity
- Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/31/sothebys-returns-ancient-buddhist-gem-collection-to-india-after-legal-pressure
- Comment | Conversations about Crimea’s fate should start with one group—the Crimean Tatars: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/31/comment-conversations-about-crimeas-fate-should-start-with-one-group-the-crimean-tatars
Art Business News
- Vermeer is Not So Fragile: https://artbusinessnews.com/2025/07/vermeer-is-not-so-fragile/
ARTnews.com
- Robert Wilson, Theater Director With a Fervent Art World Following, Dies at 83: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-wilson-theatre-director-artist-dead-1234748659/
- Egypt Uncovers 2,000-Year-Old City, Once a Center of Early Christianity: https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/egypt-archaeology-coptic-city-kharga-discovery-1234748645/
- Newsmakers: Gallerists Alice Black and Tatiana Cheneviere Launch ‘Alternative’ Advisory to Counter ‘Transactional Collecting’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/newsmakers-alice-black-tatiana-cheneviere-adivsory-1234748620/
- France Introduces Bill to Accelerate Return of Looted Artworks, Museums Debate Ethical Issues, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2025: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/france-bill-looted-artworks-museums-ethics-morning-links-1234748621/
Hyperallergic
- Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90: https://hyperallergic.com/1031304/raymond-saunders-who-made-the-color-black-his-own-dies-at-90/
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1030811/required-reading-744/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1030809/a-view-from-the-easel-296/
- How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World: https://hyperallergic.com/1030064/tove-jansson-moomins-brooklyn-public-library/
- 10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August: https://hyperallergic.com/1030567/10-shows-to-see-in-upstate-new-york-this-august-2025/
- Man Dies in Whitney Museum Fall: https://hyperallergic.com/1031052/man-dies-in-whitney-museum-fall/
