Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.

Artnet News

- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Florida Design Is Up for Sale: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frank-lloyd-wright-spring-house-florida-sale-2681641

- For Nicoleta Albei-Wigger, Every Painting Is an Emotional Encounter: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/for-nicoleta-albei-wigger-every-painting-is-an-emotional-encounter-2681313

- Nazi-Looted Portrait Shows Up in a Real Estate Listing in Argentina—Then Quickly Disappears: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazi-looted-portrait-real-estate-listing-argentina-2681421

- Van Gogh Museum Battles Dutch State Over $121 Million Funding Deal: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/van-gogh-museum-dutch-state-funding-legal-action-2681520

- Jeff Koons Is Once Again Repped by Gagosian: https://news.artnet.com/market/jeff-koons-gagosian-2681616

- New York Dealer Hal Bromm Can’t Remember His Last Art Fair. He Couldn’t Be Happier: https://news.artnet.com/market/new-york-dealer-hal-bromm-50-anniversary-2680140

- Archaeologists Find Rare Proof of Early Christian Community in the Arabian Gulf: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/christian-cross-sir-bani-ya-uae-2681434

- Museums Are Under Fire. Silence Isn’t an Option: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museums-under-fire-2680158

The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

- New Orleans artists mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/new-orleans-artists-hurricane-katrina-20th-anniversary

- Teiger Foundation gives grants totalling $7m to 85 curators: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/teiger-foundation-2025-grants-to-85-us-curators

- Pro-Palestine mural boarded up overnight at University of North Carolina: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/pro-palestine-mural-coverup-university-north-carolina

- Jeff Koons returns to Gagosian four years after departing for Pace: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/jeff-koons-larry-gagosian-reunited-at-last

- France returns three human skulls to Madagascar—including one that may have belonged to a king: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/france-returns-three-human-skulls-to-madagascar-including-one-that-may-have-belonged-to-a-king

- Campaign group threatens legal action over University of Leicester's trans-inclusive museums guidance: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/campaign-group-threatens-legal-action-over-university-of-leicesters-trans-inclusive-museums-guidance

- A brush with… Jeffrey Gibson—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/a-brush-with-jeffrey-gibsonpodcast

- Rising dealer Sebastian Gladstone expands in LA—what’s behind his success?: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/27/sebastian-gladstone-gallery-rising-dealer-expands-la

Art Business News

- MEET THE ARTIST: Vanessa Dougherty: https://artbusinessnews.com/2025/08/meet-the-artist-vanessa-dougherty/

ARTnews.com

- Royal Sculptures from 2,000-Year-old Sunken City Lifted Out of the Sea Off Alexandria: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/egypt-alexandria-artifacts-lifted-sea-1234750290/

- Fita Campaign Group Threatens Leicester University with Legal Action for Its Trans-Inclusive Museum Guidelines: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fita-campaign-group-threatens-leicester-university-trans-inclusive-museum-guidelines-1234750249/

- Claire Oliver Gallery Expands in New York’s Harlem Neighborhood: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/claire-oliver-gallery-expands-new-york-1234750054/

- Jeff Koons Returns to Gagosian After Leaving the Gallery Four Years Ago: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jeff-koons-gagosian-representation-1234750064/

- Van Gogh Museum Says It May Close If Dutch Government Doesn’t Contribute More Money: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/van-gogh-museum-closure-dutch-government-funding-1234750053/

- $15.5 M. Research Project Uncovers Stone Age Settlement on Seabed Near Denmark: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stone-age-settlement-seabed-denmark-1234750047/

- London’s Bolding Gallery Reinvents Gallery Model, Optimism Ahead of Japan and Korea Art Fairs, and More: Morning Links for August 27, 2025: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/morning-links-august-27-2025-1234750043/

- Anonymous Was A Woman and the New York Foundation for the Arts Award Over $500,000 in Environmental Art Grants: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anonymous-was-a-woman-the-new-york-foundation-for-the-arts-environmental-art-grants-2025-1234749929/

- Art and Ecstatic Ambience in Las Vegas’s Neon Vortex: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/features/las-vegas-chen-lampert-1234749126/

- D.C.’s Museums, Under Attack by Trump, Have Never Been More United in Their Purpose: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/letter-from-washington-dc-art-museums-smithsonian-trump-1234749961/

Hyperallergic

- Your Guide to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs: https://hyperallergic.com/1037354/nyc-fall-2025-art-fair-guide/

- Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?: https://hyperallergic.com/1036158/jenny-saville-uk-greatest-living-painter-national-portrait-gallery-london/

- Photographs That Depict Alzheimer’s With Dignity: https://hyperallergic.com/1037506/alicia-vera-photographs-depict-alzheimers-with-dignity/

- Pennsylvania Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Grant Cuts: https://hyperallergic.com/1037363/pennsylvania-museum-sues-trump-administration-over-grant-cuts/

- Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America: https://hyperallergic.com/1031267/wafaa-bilal-asks-what-it-means-to-be-arab-in-america-mca-chicago/

- Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map: https://hyperallergic.com/1035968/africa-wants-a-more-accurate-world-map/