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

Savneet Talwar, Anna Boghiguian, Iris van Herpen

https://hyperallergic.com/anna-boghiguian-savneet-talwar-iris-van-herpen/

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

Van Gogh’s exuberant ‘Tarascon Stagecoach’ will go on show in New York

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/van-goghs-exuberant-tarascon-stagecoach-is-donated-to-los-angeles

National Gallery’s £250 K. Citizens’ Assembly Sparks Art World Criticism and Conservative Backslash

https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/national-gallery-citizens-assembly-criticism-uk-1234794521/

The Rauschenberg Foundation Has Listed its New York HQ For Sale, Making Way for Possible ‘Luxury Rentals or Boutique Condos’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-rauschenberg-foundation-new-york-headquarters-sale-1234794514/

All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/was-unusual-all-night-italian-heist-a-work-of-revenge-1234794571/

Aspen’s Ambitious AIR Festival Turns the Rocky Mountains into a Stage

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/aspen-air-festival-2026-1234794519/

Could This New Legislation Protect Historic Sites From Trump's Wrath?

https://hyperallergic.com/could-this-new-legislation-protect-historic-sites-from-trumps-wrath/

The Lost Pearls of New York City

https://hyperallergic.com/the-lost-pearls-of-new-york-city/

Simone Forti in Her Own Words

https://hyperallergic.com/simone-forti-in-her-own-words/

Smithsonian to Show Historic Islamic Artworks From Louvre’s Collection

https://hyperallergic.com/smithsonian-to-show-historic-islamic-artworks-from-louvres-collection/

Forthcoming New Museum Show Is a Love Letter to the Bowery

https://hyperallergic.com/forthcoming-new-museum-show-is-a-love-letter-to-the-bowery/

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

Too hot to handle: Smithsonian museums shut down due to cooling system failure

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/06/smithsonian-museums-washington-dc-close-cooling-system-failure

As local museums in the UK face closure, government promises help

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/06/as-local-museums-in-the-uk-face-closure-government-promises-help

Uffizi Announces Plans for $57 M. Renovations Over Two Years

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uffizi-announces-plans-for-50m-euro-renovations-over-two-years-1234794465/

New York Historical Replaces Artworks With Reproductions Weeks After Opening $175 M. Expansion

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-historical-artworks-reproductions-sunlight-1234794416/

Simone Forti Talks Yoko Ono, Dance, and Aging in Never-Before-Published Interview

https://hyperallergic.com/simone-forti-talks-yoko-ono-dance-and-aging-in-never-before-published-interview/

Isaiah Davis Makes Metal—and Masculinity—Seem Soft

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/isaiah-davis-masculinity-metal-soft-1234794454/

David Zwirner Recruits Longtime Andrew Kreps Partner Liz Mulholland for LA Outpost

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/david-zwirner-recruits-andrew-kreps-partner-liz-mulholland-1234794448/

More Than 2,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Free Two Indian Artists After Protesting for Workers Rights

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/indian-artists-workers-rights-petition-1234794418/

16 Arrested for Showing Portraits of People Killed by ICE in DC Senate Building

https://hyperallergic.com/16-arrested-for-showing-portraits-of-people-killed-by-ice-in-dc-senate-building/

Anna Boghiguian on Weaving Armenia

https://hyperallergic.com/anna-boghiguian-on-weaving-armenia/

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

Valerie Hillings appointed inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/05/valerie-hillings-appointed-inaugural-director-of-guggenheim-abu-dhabi

Louvre to lend Islamic art treasures to the Smithsonian

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/05/louvre-loans-islamic-art-treasures-smithsonian-national-museum-asian-art

‘Criminalisation of dissent’: Indian artist remains behind bars after workers’ protest

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/05/criminalisation-of-dissent-indian-artist-remains-behind-bars-after-workers-protest

Russian drone destroys unique 300-year-old wooden Cossack church in Ukraine

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/05/russian-drone-destroys-unique-300-year-old-wooden-cossack-church-in-ukraine

Australian Museum Returns 18 Ancestral Remains to Rapa Nui

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/australian-museum-returns-rapa-nui-ancestral-remains-easter-island-1234794357/

Museums Team Up to Buy Artworks, a New AI Startup Tackles Art Forgery, and More: Morning Links for August 5, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/museums-team-up-buy-artworks-new-ai-startup-tackles-art-forgery-more-morning-links-august-5-2026-1234794321/

Advocates Rally to Stop Sale of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts

https://hyperallergic.com/advocates-rally-to-stop-sale-of-glasgows-centre-for-contemporary-arts/

Wyoming Association of Archaeologists Sues Federal Government Over NAGPRA Regulations

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wyoming-association-of-archaeologists-lawsuit-nagpra-1234794355/

Hundreds Demand Reinstatement of SAIC Professor Savneet Talwar

https://hyperallergic.com/hundreds-demand-reinstatement-of-saic-professor-savneet-talwar/

Drawings by Children in Texas ICE Facility Are a Cry for Help

https://hyperallergic.com/drawings-by-children-in-texas-ice-facility-are-a-cry-for-help/

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

The Australian Museum returns remains of Rapa Nui ancestors to Easter Island

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/04/australian-museum-repatriates-rapa-nui-remains-easter-island

London mayor Sadiq Khan calls for city's public museums to remain free to enter

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/04/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-calls-for-national-museums-to-remain-free-to-enter

Valerie Hillings Named Inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

https://hyperallergic.com/valerie-hillings-named-inaugural-director-of-guggenheim-abu-dhabi/

Kimsooja Comes Full Circle

https://hyperallergic.com/kimsooja-comes-full-circle/

Terran Last Gun’s Antique Accounting Ledgers Tell New Stories

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/terran-last-gun-new-talent-2026-1234794280/

Trump Proposes Lowest Smithsonian Budget in Years

https://hyperallergic.com/trump-proposes-lowest-smithsonian-budget-in-years/

A Colossal Ancient Marble Statue Emerges at a UNESCO Site in Turkey

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/colossal-ancient-marble-statue-emerges-unesco-site-turkey-1234794286/

Sale of Insolvent Glasgow Art Center’s Archive Would Be an ‘Irreversible Loss,’ Critics Warn

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/glasgow-cca-archive-sale-creative-scotland-1234794285/

AI Is the New Book Burning

https://hyperallergic.com/ai-is-the-new-book-burning/

Spanish Police Recover a 16th-Century Virgin Relief Stolen 16 Years Ago From Monastery

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/spanish-police-recover-16th-century-virgin-relief-1234794311/

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

Unesco urged to investigate after Israeli forces trigger explosions near Lebanon’s World Heritage-listed Beaufort Castle

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/03/unesco-urged-to-investigate-after-israeli-forces-trigger-explosion-near-lebanons-world-heritage-listed-beaufort-castle

The World’s Largest Painting Sold for $62 M. in 2021 to Benefit Children’s Charities, But They Have Yet to Receive Any Funds

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sacha-jafri-auctioned-world-largest-painting-for-charity-but-the-62-m-owed-is-missing-1234794219/

Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with Entirely New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/taryn-simon-guggenheim-show-new-work-rotunda-1234794169/

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Finally Open

https://hyperallergic.com/guggenheim-abu-dhabi-will-finally-open/

Ellen Pau’s Elegy to a Vanishing Hong Kong

https://hyperallergic.com/ellen-paus-elegy-to-a-vanishing-hong-kong/

White House Proposes Smallest Smithsonian Budget in Years and Cutting Full-Time Staff by 6 Percent

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/white-house-proposes-smallest-smithsonian-budget-in-years-1234794165/

Gagosian Gives Up London and Basel Spaces as Mega-Galleries Rethink Their Footprints

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gagosian-london-basel-gallery-closures-1234794210/

Top 200 Collectors Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai to Divorce After Nearly 30 Years

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/clara-wu-tsai-joseph-tsai-divorce-1234794234/

Michigan Arts School Alumni Allege Abuse by Jeffrey Epstein

https://hyperallergic.com/michigan-arts-school-alumni-allege-abuse-by-jeffrey-epstein/

AI Companies Are Pulping Our Humanity

https://hyperallergic.com/ai-companies-are-pulping-our-humanity/

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

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

This New A.I. Chatbot Hunts Nazi-Looted Art

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-provenance-assistant-looted-art-tool-2792609

Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Walter Benjamin

https://hyperallergic.com/betye-saar-simone-forti-walter-benjamin/

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

Long-Contested Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Gets Opening Date

https://hyperallergic.com/long-contested-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-gets-opening-date/

Business School Professors Launch AI Tool to Help Identify Unclaimed Nazi-Era Looted Artworks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/business-school-professors-ai-tool-nazi-era-looted-artworks-1234794099/

Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600,000 in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/federal-investigation-new-york-state-museum-misused-grants-1234793864/

Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/emma-shapiro-legal-challenge-restore-instagram-account-1234794131/

Gagosian exits locations in Basel and London's Burlington Arcade

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/31/gagosian-exits-locations-in-basel-and-londons-burlington-arcade

Japan’s 400-year-old Kumamoto Castle damaged by 7.1 magnitude earthquake

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/31/japans-400-year-old-kumamoto-castle-damaged-by-71-magnitude-earthquake

V&A Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over “Amazon-Style” Conditions

https://hyperallergic.com/v-a-storehouse-workers-vote-to-strike-over-amazon-style-conditions/

In New York Court, Dealer Yves Bouvier Seeks Sotheby’s Records as Part of New French Criminal Case

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/yves-bouvier-sothebys-documents-picasso-lawsuit-1234794113/

Simone Forti’s Dance of Life

https://hyperallergic.com/simone-fortis-dance-of-life/

Collector Bernardo Paz plans new museum in Brazil next-door to Inhotim

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/31/bernardo-paz-inhotim-founder-new-museum-next-door

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

Judge Says David Nahmad May Owe Millions in Nazi-Looted Modigliani Case

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/judge-awards-interest-nahmad-modigliani-restitution-case-1234793997/

V&A Museum Workers Vote to Strike

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/va-workers-strike-2792232

Family of donor who helped establish Canadian Museum for Human Rights to pause support over Palestine exhibit

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/30/canadian-museum-human-rights-asper-family-funding-palestine-exhibit

Artist starts legal case against Meta for deleting her Instagram account

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/30/artist-starts-legal-case-against-meta-for-deleting-her-instagram-account

Simone Forti, Performance Art Trailblazer, Dies at 91

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/simone-forti-obituary-2792069

FBI Executes Search on Blue-Chip Gallery That May Be Owned by Notorious Philadelphia Collector

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fbi-art-crime-searches-dane-fine-art-1234793945/

Trump’s Border Expansion Threatens 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings

https://hyperallergic.com/trumps-border-expansion-threatens-6-000-year-old-cave-paintings/

Cyberattack on Dresden State Art Collections Lasted Days, Authorities Reveal

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cyberattack-on-dresden-state-art-collections-lasted-days-authorities-reveal-1234793959/

A New Richard Estes Survey Proves There’s More to Photorealism Than Meets the Eye

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/richard-estes-schoelkopf-gallery-2789120

Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List

https://hyperallergic.com/israel-incensed-as-unesco-adds-lebanese-and-west-bank-sites-to-world-heritage-list/