Daily Art Download — 2025-07-11

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Digital Art and the Post-Pandemic Generation: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/maya-man-art-2662314 - Lilian Martinez’s New Print Captures the Essence of Summer: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lincoln-center-editions-lilian-martinez-2666103 - Homeland Security Officials Descended On a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/homeland-security-puerto-rican-museum-chicago-2666579 - A Long-Hidden Detail in Vermeer’s Quiet Street Scene Emerges: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vermeer-the-street-new-research-2666535 - Jane Birkin’s Original Hermès Bag Just Made History at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hermes-birkin-bag-sale-sothebys-2666475 - The Five Friends Who Defined Post-War Art, Seen Together for the First Time: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/five-friends-museum-brandhorst-rauschenberg-2665217 - Ancient Egyptian DNA Fully Sequenced for the First Time: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/first-ancient-egyptian-genome-dna-sequence-2666293 - Historic Galileo Manuscript Just Set a New Auction Record: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/galileo-1-5-million-sale-auction-record-2666349 - Johnny Depp’s New Film Attempts a Portrait of Modigliani—But Is It Just Another Sketch?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/modi-johnny-depp-modigliani-film-2665696 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - New York City art schools see surge in Gen Z applications: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/new-york-city-art-schools-see-surge-in-gen-z-applications - Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/venus-over-manhattan-will-close-after-13-years - Prospect New Orleans will not take place in 2027: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/prospect-new-orleans-will-not-take-place-in-2027 - Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/horde-of-stolen-documentsincluding-logbook-saviour-netherlands-recovered-art-detective - ‘Why don’t you talk about the hostages?’: Nan Goldin interrupted by protester during Gaza-focused speech at Rencontres d’Arles: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/why-dont-you-talk-about-the-hostages-nan-goldin-confronted-by-protester-during-gaza-focused-acceptance-speech-at-rencontres-darles - Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/phillips-claims-stake-in-south-asian-market-with-london-group-show - Resistance is febrile at this summer's Rencontres d’Arles: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/resistance-is-febrile-at-this-summers-rencontres-darles - France resisted loan of Bayeux Tapestry for ‘decades’, Macron says during British Museum visit: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/france-resisted-loan-of-bayeux-tapestry-for-decades-says-macron - Turkish power plant reborn as regional cultural hub: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/turkish-power-plant-reborn-as-regional-cultural-hub - Syria, Ukraine and Gaza among countries to receive heritage funds from Aliph: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/syria-ukraine-and-gaza-are-among-countries-to-receive-heritage-funds-from-aliph - ‘Research powerhouse’: Abu Dhabi's Zayed National Museum confirms 2025 opening: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/10/research-powerhouse-abu-dhabis-zayed-national-museum-confirms-2025-opening ARTnews.com - Amazon Prime Day Deals on Tech for Artists, Writers, and Craftspeople Continue This Evening: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/product-recommendations/prime-day-sales-on-studio-basics-1234573495/ - Original Birkin Bag Sells For Record-Breaking $8.2 M at Sotheby’s Paris to Japanese Buyer: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/birkin-bag-sale-record-sothebys-paris-1234747227/