Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Legacy Hits the Road in a Fancy Trailer: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frank-lloyd-wright-airstream-trailer-2676959
- 5 Asian Painters Making the Personal Political: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/5-asian-painters-making-the-personal-political-2670239
- Why This New Art Trend Feels So Familiar: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/para-pastoral-2673200
- Scientists Uncover 31 Shipwrecks Hidden Beneath Lake Constance: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lake-constance-31-shipwrecks-2677596
- Want to Crack the CIA’s Infamous ‘Kryptos’ Puzzle? Its Secret Key Is Up for Sale: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cia-kryptos-sculpture-code-auction-2677451
- Yoko Ono Will Help Transform JFK Airport’s New Terminal: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-jfk-airport-art-installations-moma-2677047
- ‘Snow White’ Concept Art Leads Historic $5.2 Million Disney Auction: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/heritage-auctions-disney-animation-2677349
- Developers Wall Over a Rediscovered David Wojnarowicz Mural, Sparking Outcries: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-wojnarowicz-mural-emerges-2676804
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Lost Maya stronghold against Spanish conquest discovered in Mexican jungle: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/maya-stronghold-sak-bahlan-mexican-jungle
- More than 200 geoglyphs discovered in Nazca Desert with help of AI: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/248-nazca-lines-discovered-artificial-intelligence-peru
- Rediscovered David Wojnarowicz mural could disappear from view again: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/david-wojnarowicz-mural-louisville-kentucky-developer
- Gas found in space could help repair damage to Old Masters, say researchers: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/oxygen-from-earths-orbit-could-save-old-masters-form-the-effects-of-climate-change-say-researchers
- Glasgow art centre to reopen under new leadership after pro-Palestinian protest incident: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/glasgow-art-centre-to-reopen-under-new-leadership-after-pro-palestinian-protest-incident
ARTnews.com
- Justin Sun, Billionaire Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian,’ Sues Bloomberg News: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/justin-sun-maurizio-cattelan-comedian-bloomberg-news-lawsuit-1234749376/
- A Wojnarowicz Mural Was Rediscovered in Kentucky After Four Decades—Now It’s Being Hidden Again: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/david-wojnarowicz-mural-rediscovered-kentucky-1234749395/
- Long Droughts May Have Played a Significant Role in the Decline of Ancient Mayan Civilization: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-maya-end-droughts-archaeology-1234749367/
- Whitney Museum Names Dan Nadel Curator of Drawings and Prints: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/whitney-museum-names-dan-nadel-curator-drawings-and-prints-1234749377/
- France Tried to Get Rosetta Stone and Free Admission for French Citizens in Exchange for Bayeux Tapestry: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bayeux-tapestry-france-british-museum-1234749372/
- South Korea’s ‘Art Loving’ Ex-First Lady Arrested, Queer Art in Crisis, Beloved Barbie Designers Killed in Car Crash: Morning Links for August 14, 2025: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/south-koreas-art-loving-ex-first-lady-arrested-queer-art-in-crisis-beloved-barbie-designers-killed-in-car-crash-morning-links-for-august-14-2025-1234749363/
- Auction Houses Are Plugging the $3 B. Gap Left by Tanking Art Sales with Luxury Proceeds: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/christies-sothebys-auction-houses-luxury-fashion-art-1234749341/
- Sotheby’s to Open Its New Breuer Building HQ on November 8 with ‘Blockbuster’ Exhibition: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sothebys-to-open-its-new-breuer-building-hq-on-november-8-with-blockbuster-exhibition-1234749349/
Hyperallergic
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1034501/required-reading-746/
- It’s Time to Rethink the 50/50 Split With Art Galleries: https://hyperallergic.com/1034068/its-time-rethink-the-50-50-split-with-art-galleries/
- Anish Kapoor Greenpeace Collab Sends Generic Environmental Message: https://hyperallergic.com/1034588/anish-kapoor-greenpeace-collab-sends-generic-environmental-message/
- Connecting the Heavens and Earth Through Art: https://hyperallergic.com/1034524/connecting-the-heavens-and-earth-through-art-hamburg-planetarium/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1034452/a-view-from-the-easel-298/
- 40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again: https://hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40-year-old-wojnarowicz-mural-resurfaces-only-to-be-hidden-again/
