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

A Smaller Art Brussels Represents a Shift in the Fair Ecosystem Toward a ‘Quality-First’ Approach

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-brussels-2026-report-parloir-fair-1234782661/

An Art Historian’s Riotous Novel Melds Medieval Art with Monica Lewinsky

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/a-new-novel-sees-monica-lewinsky-through-medieval-art-1234782607/

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

How Art Firms Are—or Should Be—Using A.I. Right Now

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-adoption-on-the-rise-2767684

How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker What the Apps Won’t: PTO

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/pto-fields-harrington-gustavo-ajche-bike-ps1-greater-ny-1234782540/

LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-box-los-angeles-gallery-closure-1234782658/

Venice, Here We Come

https://hyperallergic.com/venice-here-we-come/

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The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show

https://news.artnet.com/market/metropolitan-museum-raphael-exhibition-2767828

Venice Biennale’s Prize Ban on Israel and Russia Falls Short for Critics

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-awards-ban-2767588

Sonic investigations non-profit to be artist-in-residence at London's Gasworks

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/24/sonic-investigations-non-profit-to-be-artist-in-residence-at-londons-gasworks

Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/refik-anadol-ai-art-museum-dataland-open-los-angeles-june-1234782560/

A Refreshing Turn to Craft at AIPAD's Photography Show

https://hyperallergic.com/a-refreshing-turn-to-craft-at-aipads-photography-show/

Collector Julia Stoschek Closes Down Berlin Exhibition Venue After 10 Years In Favor of International Projects

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-foundation-venue-berlin-1234782594/

Nude Performance at MFA Boston Confronts One of Art’s Oldest Tropes

https://hyperallergic.com/nude-performance-at-mfa-boston-confronts-one-of-arts-oldest-tropes/

A Buddha Is Reborn on the High Line

https://hyperallergic.com/a-buddha-is-reborn-on-the-high-line/

Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bard-leon-botstein-succession-1234782548/

Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue

https://news.artnet.com/market/new-gagosian-gallery-madison-avenue-new-york-2767601

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Refik Anadol’s Dataland Museum Sets an Opening Date

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dataland-refik-anadol-opening-date-2767486

The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/big-review-lacma-david-geffen-galleries

Harmony Korine Makes Sense of His Shape-Shifting Art: ‘It’s Really One Whole Work’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/harmony-korine-ica-miami-2767009

Nominees for the Turner Prize 2026 announced by Tate

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/nominees-for-the-turner-prize-2026-announced-by-tate

Alma Allen Speaks Out on Backlash Over U.S. Pavilion Commission: ‘A Little Stressful’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alma-allen-speaks-out-venice-biennale-backlash-2767092

Comment | Artnet-Artsy merger: 'a Bloomberg for art?'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/23/comment-|-how-viable-is-the-artnet-and-artsys-merger

Taiwan Revokes National Art Prize from Sakuliu Pavavaljung After Sexual Assault Conviction

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sakuliu-pavavaljung-taiwan-national-art-prize-revoked-1234782497/

Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-2030-moisture-damage-1234782399/

Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-weiwei-24-hour-performance-factory-international-1234782448/

Venice Biennale Awards Jury Won’t Consider Russia and Israel

https://hyperallergic.com/venice-biennale-awards-jury-wont-consider-russia-and-israel/

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Yves Saint Laurent’s Lalanne Mirrors Sell for Record-Shattering $33.5 Million

https://news.artnet.com/market/yves-saint-laurent-lalanne-mirrors-de-gunzberg-sale-2762297

Antony Gormley sculpture quietly removed and sold off by UK council

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/antony-gormley-sculpture-quietly-removed-and-sold-off-by-uk-council

The Photography Show fair’s 45th edition explores medium’s full history from its origins to AI

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/the-photography-show-aipad-fair-45th-edition-preview

Caravaggio and Rubens works destroyed by fire in Second World War are brought back to (digital) life

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/22/caravaggio-and-rubens-works-destroyed-by-fire-in-second-world-war-are-brought-back-to-digital-life

Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery of Art for Lending Program

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/billionaire-mitchell-rales-national-gallery-art-lending-program-1234782323/

Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/panel-recommendation-orphaned-nazi-looted-art-netherlands-1234782335/

Can the V&A’s New Museum Fulfill Its Democratic Promise?

https://hyperallergic.com/can-the-v-as-new-museum-fulfill-its-democratic-promise/

Architectural Competition for Louvre ‘New Renaissance’ Project Reportedly Set to Relaunch in May

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jury-architect-for-louvre-project-set-to-meet-in-may-1234782362/

Trump White House Ballroom Contract Allowed Anonymous Donors, Limited Oversight

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/white-house-ballroom-contract-anonymous-donors-oversight-1234782350/

Venice Biennale’s 2026 Golden Lion Jury to Be Led by Videobrasil Founder

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venice-biennale-2026-golden-lion-jury-1234782325/

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How Pussy Riot Is Challenging Russia’s Return to the Venice Biennale

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pussy-riot-venice-biennale-bid-2766832

Has A.I. Solved the Mystery of This El Greco Painting?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-el-greco-science-advances-2766875

Lack of accountability after crush of crowds at Haiti’s Citadelle Laferrière kills 25

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/21/haiti-citadelle-laferriere-crowd-crush-stampede-25-dead

Mass shooting at Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site leaves one dead, 13 injured

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/21/teotihuacan-site-mass-shooting

Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s NEON to Conclude After ‘Having Fulfilled Its Mission’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-its-mission-1234782219/

Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates 150,000 Objects to Major Mexico City Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/diego-rivera-grandson-donation-museo-anahuacalli-mexico-city-1234782182/

The Iran War Is Already Tanking Luxury Sales in the Gulf—Could Art Be Next?

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/iran-war-gulf-art-market-luxury-sales-down-1234782132/

What We Loved (And Didn’t) in “Greater New York”

https://hyperallergic.com/what-we-loved-and-didnt-in-greater-new-york/

Barbara Chase-Riboud Speaks Out on Declining US Biennale Pavilion

https://hyperallergic.com/barbara-chase-riboud-speaks-out-on-declining-us-biennale-pavilion/

Barbara Chase-Riboud Says She Declined US Pavilion Offer Because It Was ‘Not the Moment’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/barbara-chase-riboud-declined-us-pavilion-venice-biennale-1234782052/

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Drum and trumpet with human skulls attached complicate plan for restitution from Los Angeles to Ghana

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/drum-and-trumpet-with-human-skulls-attached-complicate-plan-for-restitution-from-los-angeles-to-ghana

V&A East Launches With a Fresh Lens on a 2.8 Million-Object Collection

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/va-east-opening-2766616

Diego Rivera’s grandson donates more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/diego-rivera-museo-anahuacalli-donation-grandson-150000-objects

US-Israel war on Iran disrupts art transport routes as prices surge

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/20/us-israel-war-on-iran-disrupts-art-transport-routes-as-prices-surge

Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramović’s New Berlin Mega Show

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marina-abramovic-berlin-exhibition-curator-agnes-gryczkowska-1234781412/

Genesis P-Orridge’s Subversive Mail Art Goes on View

https://hyperallergic.com/genesis-p-orridges-subversive-mail-art-goes-on-view/

James Hayward, West Coast Painter with a Cult Following, Dies at 82

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/james-hayward-painter-dead-1234781960/

Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery

https://hyperallergic.com/mexico-to-divert-train-route-after-cave-art-discovery/

Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Heads to Venice Amid Questions Over Selection Process

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alma-allens-u-s-pavilion-heads-to-venice-1234781956/

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter to Co-Headline ‘Immersive Experience’ at Art Basel

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/daft-punk-thomas-bangalter-art-basel-1234781941/

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Ruins of a ‘Unique‘ Temple Complex Discovered in Northern Sinai

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/unique-2nd-century-bc-temple-discovered-northern-sinai-1234781825/

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What Not to Miss at the San Francisco Art Fair, According to Curator Mara Gladstone

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/curator-mara-gladstone-san-francisco-art-fair-2766248

Sotheby’s Debt, Delays, and the Drahi Playbook

https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-debt-delays-2766303

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Art Speaks in a Language Left for Us to Translate

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-retrospective-bampfa-1234781753/

Art Talk With Rama Duwaji

https://hyperallergic.com/art-talk-with-rama-duwaji/

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Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin—podcast

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/museum-openings-va-east-los-angeles-county-museum-art-plus-william-blake-dublin-podcast

Zurich’s controversial Bührle Collection is rehung, including five paintings by Van Gogh—plus one forgery

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/zurichs-controversial-buhrle-collection-rehung-including-five-paintings-van-gogh-one-forgery

Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/turkey-notches-another-successful-restitution-after-denver-art-museum-returns-1500-year-old-marble-head-1234781710/

Lebanon appeals to Unesco to intervene amid fears protected citadel has been destroyed

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/lebanon-appeals-to-unesco-to-intervene-amid-fears-protected-citadel-has-been-destroyed

The Big Review: Rothko in Florence ★★★★★

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/17/the-big-review-rothko-in-florence

Catalan Museum Has Yet to Follow Through on Court Order to Return Contested Murals to Aragon Monastery

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/catalan-museum-hasnt-returned-contested-murals-aragon-monastery-1234781729/

Edmonia Lewis Was the Earliest Known Black Artist to Depict Emancipation. This Is Her First Retrospective.

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/edmonia-lewis-peabody-essex-georgia-museum-of-art-north-carolina-museum-of-art-1234781689/

Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/finland-venice-biennale-russia-pavilion-boycott-1234781822/

Tania El Khoury’s Soothing “Revenge Art”

https://hyperallergic.com/tania-el-khourys-soothing-revenge-art/

The Triumphant New LACMA Has the Potential to Rewrite Art History

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/lacma-david-geffen-galleries-review-1234781676/