Daily Art Download — 2025-07-02

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - 40,000-Year-Old Boomerang Doesn’t Boomerang at All: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mammoth-tusk-boomerang-worlds-oldest-2663430 - Blum, a Market Force for Three Decades, Will Close Galleries: https://news.artnet.com/market/blum-a-market-force-for-three-decades-will-close-galleries-2663456 - Historic Canaletto Masterpiece Shatters the Painter’s Auction Record: https://news.artnet.com/market/canaletto-walpole-heads-to-christies-auction-2643675 - Maja Ruznic Reimagines Colonial Paintings for Site Santa Fe International: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maja-ruznic-site-santa-fe-2661296 - Massive Formula 1 Memorabilia Auction Roars to Life: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/formula-1-memorabilia-auction-sothebys-rm-2663229 - A Dentist Uncovers Surprising Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardo-da-vinci-vitruvian-man-secrets-dentist-2663052 - How One San Francisco Space Helped Define the Course of Photo and Video Art: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rena-bransten-gallery-2661954 - Small Galleries Suffer When Star Artists Depart. Has This Dealer Found a Fix?: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-dealer-provocative-solution-poaching-problem-2655240 - Will Art Lovers Flock to a Tiny New York Village? This New Triennial Hopes So: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/medina-triennial-western-new-york-2661153 - The Subtly Unsettling Logic of This Prize-Winning A.I. Film: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/total-pixel-space-jacob-adler-a-i-film-festival-2662774 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - Collector Ken Griffin spends $18.1m on historic US documents signed by Abraham Lincoln: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/collector-ken-griffin-buyer-thirteenth-amendment-emancipation-proclamation-sothebys - Trump’s bill to cut taxes and social safety net programmes includes $40m for patriotic sculpture park: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/trump-spending-bill-funding-garden-american-heroes - New world record for Canaletto as view of Venice sells for £31.9m: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/canaletto-painting-of-venice-sells-for-record-£319m - US government’s attempts to solicit National Park visitors’ feedback on historical depictions backfires: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/national-park-service-snitch-signs-backfire - Why Helen Chadwick’s earthy, provocative art remains as vital as ever: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/why-helen-chadwick-earthy-provocative-art-remains-as-vital-as-ever - Why sociologists believe that culture might be bad for you: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/why-sociologists-believe-that-culture-is-bad-for-you - An expansive monograph of Celia Paul paints a portrait of a single-minded, singular artist: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/an-expansive-monograph-of-celia-paul-paints-a-portrait-of-a-single-minded-singular-artist - July Book Bag: from a monograph of Vincent Namatjira’s headline-grabbing portraits to a book of Chinese art heists: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/july-book-bag-from-a-monograph-of-vincent-namatjira-headline-grabbing-paintings-to-curious-cases-of-chinese-art-heists - Arshile Gorky’s experience as an immigrant to the US and the painting that defined it: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/arshile-gorkys-experience-as-an-immigrant-to-the-us-and-the-painting-that-defined-it - Penis envy? 35-foot appendage at UK heritage site was almost covered up: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/penis-envy-35-foot-appendage-uk-heritage-site-almost-covered-up - Illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins on dealing with violent imagery and finding ways of ‘showing the impossible’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/01/illustrator-clive-hicks-jenkins-on-dealing-with-violent-imagery-and-finding-ways-of-showing-the-impossible - Rapha