Daily Art Download — 2025-06-26

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Saint Laurent’s Poetic Men’s Show Drew on Queer Art History: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/saint-laurent-spring-2026-mens-show-queer-art-history-2661202 - Ai Weiwei Will Unveil a Major installation in Ukraine Amid Ongoing Conflict: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-weiwei-major-installation-ukraine-2661107 - Cleveland Museum of Art Snaps Up Last Giambologna Marble in Private Hands: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cleveland-museum-of-art-acquires-giambologna-2660966 - Notre-Dame Welcomes Back Its Beloved Spire Statues: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/notre-dame-cathedral-spire-statues-return-2660990 - Thomas Jefferson Letter Arguing for the Right to Bear Arms May Fetch $90,000: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/letter-thomas-jefferson-right-bear-arms-2660991 - Gilded-Age Tiffany Window Shatters Estimates With $4.2 Million Sale: https://news.artnet.com/market/goddard-tiffany-window-heads-to-auction-2640386 - A Decade of Demna’s Most Iconic Designs Takes Center Stage in Paris: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/balenciaga-decade-of-demna-2660980 - Why Were Hatshepsut’s Statues Destroyed After Her Death? A New Theory Emerges: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hatshepsut-statues-destroyed-research-2660641 - The Surprising Lives of the Women Who Loved Picasso: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/women-who-loved-picasso-book-2654784 - This Artist Is Famous For His ‘Bad Taste’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chen-fei-bad-taste-interview-2657226 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - Taste test: artist-made desserts will be shown (and eaten) in New York gallery’s one-night exhibition: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/cake-exhibition-artists-desserts-eating-olympia-gallery-new-york - Getty launches international art and sustainability fellowship: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/getty-global-art-sustainability-fellowship-programme - Historic condom exhibit at Rijksmuseum sparks protest: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/historic-condom-exhibit-at-rijksmuseum-sparks-protest - A brush with... Hew Locke—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/a-brush-with-hew-locke-podcast - Treasure House Fair hopes to be the flagship summer event London desperately needs: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/treasure-house-fair-hopes-to-be-the-flagship-summer-event-london-desperately-needs - Party time: Cate Blanchett, Beth Ditto, Lily Allen and more light up glitzy Serpentine summer bash: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/party-time-art-stars-sparkle-glitzy-serpentine-summer-party - ‘A dialogue about rationality and irrationality’: Ai Weiwei to present new installation in Ukraine: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/25/dialogue-about-rationality-irrationality-ai-weiwei-new-installation-ukraine ARTnews.com - Bob Dylan Announces New Art Book ‘Point Blank’ to Release This Fall: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bob-dylan-announces-new-art-book-point-blank-1234746149/ - Hong Kong Real Estate Firm’s Art Lending Deal with Sotheby’s Hits Snag: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-lending-hong-kong-real-estate-sothebys-1234746125/ - Ancient Roman Settlement Discovered in France: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-roman-settlement-ales-france-1234746097/ - Cara Romero’s Indigenous Futurist Lens Resists Erasure Through Humor and Strength: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/cara-romero-photographer-hood-museum-exhibition-1234746099/ - In the Show of the Summer, Rosa Barba Remakes the World: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/rosa-barba-moma-times-square-moynihan-1234746109/ - Ai Weiwei to Stage New Work About ‘War and Peace’ in Ukraine: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-new-artwork-ukraine-russia-1234745896/ Hyperallergic - The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph: https://hyperallergic