Daily Art Download — 2025-06-28

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 M