Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Prominent Art Advisory Implodes After 37 Years, as Ex-Partners Fire Off Lawsuits: https://news.artnet.com/market/prominent-art-advisory-implodes-after-37-years-as-ex-partners-fire-off-lawsuits-2667729
- KAWS’s Colossal Figures Are Taking Root at the New York Botanical Garden: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kaws-take-over-new-york-botanical-garden-2668006
- Is Bernini’s Baroque Masterpiece the Most Controversial Religious Artwork of All Time?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bernini-the-ecstasy-of-saint-teresa-2659785
- A Risqué Pompeii Mosaic Returns Home Decades After Wartime Theft: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/risque-pompeii-mosaic-looted-german-restituted-2668012
- More Than 500 Designs by Rei Kawakubo Hit the Auction Block: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rei-kawakubo-comme-des-garcons-piasa-auction-2667989
- Christie’s Reports Flat First-Half Total, Following Last Year’s Steep Drop: https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-first-half-results-2025-2667914
- In Surprise Move, New York Dealer Harper Levine Plots Bangkok Expansion: https://news.artnet.com/market/harpers-gallery-bangkok-2667721
- A Piece of Japan’s Most Iconic Futurist Tower Just Landed at MoMA: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nagakin-capsule-tower-moma-2667631
- What’s Behind the Dramatic Price Surge for This Édouard Vuillard Painting?: https://news.artnet.com/market/work-of-the-week-edouard-vuillard-2667374
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- ‘Free art, with strings attached’: Zero Art Fair’s first edition in New York City puts a new spin on the old fair format: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/free-art-with-strings-attached-zero-art-fairs-first-edition-in-new-york-city-puts-a-new-spin-on-the-old-fair-format
- Marina Abramović and Peter Doig win £77,000 Praemium Imperiale prizes: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/marina-abramovic-peter-doig-win-praemium-imperiale-prizes
- National Trust à la française? French culture minister considers plans for new heritage body based on UK model: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/national-trust-a-la-francaise-french-culture-minister-considers-plans-for-new-heritage-body-based-on-uk-model
- Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/christies-celebrates-the-late-syrian-artist-marwan-with-non-selling-show-in-london
- Millais treasure trove goes on long-term loan to Scottish gallery: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/hundreds-strong-millais-treasure-trove-goes-on-long-term-loan-to-scottish-gallery
- New photography venue to open in Dublin’s gentrifying east docklands: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/new-photography-venue-opens-dublin-gentrifying-east-docklands
- London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/15/london-urban-oasis-hosts-an-artists-multimedia-investigation-of-plants-resilience-in-the-face-of-climate-crisis
ARTnews.com
- Justin Sun, Billionaire Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana, Is Purchasing $100 M. of Trump’s Memecoin: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/justin-sun-maurizio-cattelan-banana-trump-memecoin-1234747455/
- WeTransfer Changes Terms of Service After Criticism About Updates to Licensing Rights: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wetransfer-changes-terms-licensing-rights-ai-1234747368/
- French Art Galleries Struggle Amid Wavering Art Market, Survey Reveals: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/french-art-galleries-struggle-amid-wavering-art-market-survey-reveals-1234747374/
- A Cleveland Artist Is Transforming a Trashed Greyhound Bus into a Museum of Migration: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/a-cleveland-artist-is-transforming-a-trashed-greyhound-bus-into-a-museum-of-migration-1234747377/
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