Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- How Rising Artist Marisa Adesman Conjured an Illusionistic World With a 19th-Century Book of Magic: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marisa-adesman-magic-anat-ebgi-2662697
- Rediscovered Turner Masterpiece Crushes Estimates With $2.6 Million Sale: https://news.artnet.com/market/turner-rediscovered-masterpiece-auction-2653461
- Largest-Known Martian Meteorite Lands on the Auction Block: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mars-meteorite-sothebys-auction-2663688
- How This Rising Artist Channels Ancient Maya Culture Into His Contemporary Practice: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/antonio-pichilla-quiacain-elizabeth-xi-bauer-2662895
- Why the Benin Bronzes Are Being Returned—and Who Gets Them: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mfa-boston-benin-bronzes-restitution-2662790
- Rare, Signed Jay-Z Art Book Poised to Fetch $150,000 at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/signed-book-hov-jay-z-auction-2663301
- SuperRare’s New Gallery Is Embracing Digital Art in All Forms—Not Just NFTs: https://news.artnet.com/market/superrare-new-york-gallery-digital-art-2663363
- Curator Xiaowen Zhu on the Best Way to Approach Asia’s Multifaceted Art Scenes: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curator-xiaowen-zhu-interview-2660839
- Senate Passes ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ With $40 Million for Patriotic Sculpture Garden: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-arts-impact-2639197
- ‘Canceled’ Artist Khaled Sabsabi Is Reinstated as Australia’s Representative for Venice Biennale: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/khaled-sabsabi-reinstatement-2663523
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- MFA Boston returns two works to Kingdom of Benin: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/museum-fine-arts-boston-restitutes-benin-bronzes-nigeria
- Tim Blum will phase out traditional gallery model, close Los Angeles and Tokyo locations: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/tim-blum-closing-gallery
- At Baltimore Museum of Art, a new exhibition asks us to consider the connections between race, colonialism and the climate crisis: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/at-baltimore-museum-of-art-a-new-exhibition-asks-us-to-consider-the-connections-between-race-colonialism-and-the-climate-crisis
- A Clara Peeters self-portrait and the only work for which Gandhi posed are among this summer’s auction highlights: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/a-clara-peeters-self-portrait-and-the-only-work-for-which-gandhi-posed-are-among-this-summers-auction-highlights
- As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/as-iraqs-economy-shows-signs-of-recovery-a-thirst-for-new-art-is-emerging
- Should UK museums display mummies? One institution is asking its visitors for their view: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/should-uk-museums-display-mummies-one-institution-asking-visitors-for-their-view
- Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/khaled-sabsabi-reinstated-as-australias-representative-at-the-2026-venice-biennale
- Guercino’s ‘King David’, a Fabergé imperial triptych and Munch’s ‘Man with horse’: June acquisitions round-up: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/02/guercinos-king-david-a-faberge-imperial-triptych-munch-man-with-horse-june-acquisitions-round-up
ARTnews.com
- Khaled Sabsabi, Michael Dagostino Reinstated for Venice Biennale After Creative Australia U-Turn: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/khaled-sabsabi-reinstated-for-venice-biennale-1234746757/
- Peter Phillips, British Pop Art Originator, Dies at 86: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-pop-art-originator-peter-phillips-dies-at-86-1234746734/
- Hundreds of Ancient Ceramic Artifacts Found During Excavation of Preserved Shipwreck in Turkey: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/n