Daily Art Download — 2025-07-01

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Remnants of a Renaissance-Era Equestrian Statue Emerge From a French Dig: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/remnants-enaissance-equestrian-statue-french-dig-2662751 - Decade-Long Raphael Rooms Restoration Reveals Major Art Historical Discovery: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/raphael-rooms-restoration-discovery-2662624 - The Scene at Two Essential Summer Art Parties—and a Bevy of Juicy Art World Gossip: https://news.artnet.com/market/the-scene-at-two-essential-summer-art-parties-and-a-bevy-of-juicy-art-world-gossip-2662367 - Ken Griffin Acquires Emancipation-Era Documents in Record-Breaking Sale: https://news.artnet.com/market/kenneth-griffin-13th-amendment-emancipation-proclamation-sothebys-2662810 - Art That Shines With Pride From the Artnet Gallery Network: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-that-shines-with-pride-from-the-artnet-gallery-network-2662000 - How Rome’s Blockbuster Caravaggio Show Brings the Baroque Master to Life: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rome-caravaggio-2025-show-2662212 - The Eccentric Story Behind History’s Most Fabulous Cat Painting: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/my-wifes-lovers-cat-painting-2651799 - Italy’s VAT Rates Are Now the Lowest in Europe—and More Art Industry News: https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jun-30-2662140 - London’s Market Adapts: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jun-30-2662201 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - A first glimpse (and listen) inside Lacma’s $720m new building: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/lacma-david-geffen-galleries-first-glimpse - Ten essential works of art to see at the National Gallery in London: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/ten-essential-works-of-art-to-see-at-the-national-gallery-in-london - Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/chardin-strawberries-masterpiece-forms-fruity-backdrop-dior-catwalk - New book delves into submerged stories of an elusive Spanish galleon: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/book-delves-into-submerged-stories-of-an-elusive-spanish-galleon - Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/home-of-murdered-pakistani-artist-ismail-gulgee-becomes-a-museum - UK mental health hospitals are about to get more art: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/uk-mental-health-hospitals-about-to-get-more-art-as-charity-announces-more-than-50-new-commissions - Culture workers feel the pain of Sudan’s endless civil war: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/culture-workers-feel-the-pain-of-sudans-endless-civil-war - Symbol of a scandalous Victorian love story, long-lost silver stag sculpture goes on show: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/30/symbol-of-a-scandalous-victorian-love-story-long-lost-silver-stag-sculpture-goes-on-show ARTnews.com - Jonathan Anderson Makes Dior Debut with Nod to European Art History: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jonathan-anderson-dior-debut-paris-european-art-june-2025-1234746494/ - Tyler Mitchell Photographs Star Alongside Ayo Edebiri in ‘The Bear’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-bear-tyler-mitchell-photographs-1234746538/ - Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Buys Lincoln’s Handwritten Copy of 13th Amendment for $13.7 M.: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/ken-griffin-13th-amendment-copy-sothebys-1234746499/ - In a Florida Exhibition, Sandy Rodriguez Examines the Hidden Histories of the Gulf of Mexico: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/sandy-rodriguez-ringling-museum-of-art-exhibition-1234746496/ - Curator Brice Arsène Yonkeu Talks Identity, Amoako Boafo’s dot.ateliers, and His New Gagosian Show ‘Ever So Present II’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brice-arsene-yonkeu-amoako-boafos-dot-a