Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Experts Uncover the First Royal Tomb at Ancient Maya City in Belize: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/first-royal-tomb-maya-caracol-belize-2667767
- Phillips Sues Sugar Magnate’s Son After $15 Million Pollock Guarantee Goes Awry: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/phillips-david-mimran-15-million-pollock-guarantee-2667618
- How Textile Artist Maria Lai Turned ‘Women’s Work’ Into Avant-Garde Art: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maria-lai-magazzino-2665363
- Which Art Gallery Is Going to Close Next? And More Juicy Art World Gossip: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-galleries-closing-museum-restaurants-wet-paint-2667206
- How Paris’s Art Absolument is Reimagining the Contemporary Art Experience: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-absolument-paris-2666938
- From French Stonehenge to Fairytale Castles, These 32 Sites Just Earned World Heritage Status: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/unesco-world-heritage-2025-2667612
- Man in Kilt Breaks Glass Protecting the Stone of Destiny at Museum: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/man-arrested-stone-of-destiny-scottish-museum-2667564
- Abu Dhabi Announces Another Mega Museum—and More Art Industry News: https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jul-14-2667315
- What’s Next for the Middle East’s Market?: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jul-14-2667293
- The Best Art Books of All Time (According to Us): https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-best-art-books-of-all-time-according-to-us-2660987
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed by wildfire: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/historic-grand-canyon-lodge-destroyed-by-wildfire
- A Cleveland artist turns an historic Greyhound bus into a museum: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/cleveland-artist-turns-historic-greyhound-bus-into-a-museum
- Blood, skeletons and syphilis: the story of Edvard Munch’s obsession with health: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/blood-skeletons-syphilis-edvard-munch-obsession-health
- Justin Sun goes bananas for $Trump cryptocurrency: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/justin-sun-goes-bananas-for-trump
- Amid crackdowns on dissent, Russia’s private museums are threatened: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/amid-cracks-down-on-dissent-russias-beleaguered-private-museums-fight-to-survive
- Portraits of Windrush generation to be shown in UK government department following vandalism: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/14/restored-windrush-portraits-to-be-shown-in-uk-government-department-after-vandalism
ARTnews.com
- Murujuga Rock Art in Australia Receives UNESCO World Heritage Status: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/murujuga-rock-art-australia-receives-unesco-world-heritage-status-1234747309/
- Bill Dilworth, Artist Who Watched Over Walter De Maria’s ‘Earth Room,’ Dies at 70: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bill-dilworth-new-york-earth-room-caretaker-dead-1234747310/
- The Real Housewives‘s Racquel Chevremont on Democratizing Art and Showcasing Black Excellence on And Just Like That…: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/racquel-chevremont-interview-and-just-like-that-1234747299/
- Who Was J.M.W. Turner and Why Was He So Important?: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/who-was-j-m-w-turner-why-so-important-british-artist-1234745218/
Hyperallergic
- Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now: https://hyperallergic.com/1027523/four-new-york-city-art-shows-to-see-july-14-2025/
- Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition: https://hyperallergic.com/1027677/artists-decry-centre-pompidous-cancellation-of-caribbean-art-exhibition/
- 150 Years of American Art Comes to Life: https://hyperallergic.com/1027625/150-years-art-students-league-new-york/
- For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable: https