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

War Casts Shadow on Art Dubai

https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-mar-9-2751976

UK council criticised over sale of collection including works by pioneering photographer Tony Ray-Jones

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/09/uk-council-criticised-sale-collection-including-works-photographer-tony-ray-jones

Show me the money: UK gallery and auction house accounts reveal reality of a tough market

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/09/show-me-the-money-gallery-and-auctioneer-accounts-reveal-reality-of-a-tough-market

Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-museum-cy-twombly-retrospective-1234776412/

60 Percent of Sudan National Museum’s Holdings Have Been Looted, Officials Say

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sudan-national-museum-60-percent-looted-1234776464/

Tomás Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/09/tomas-saraceno-indigenous-land-art-project-argentine-salt-flats

Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes

https://hyperallergic.com/lebanon-gallerist-navigates-ongoing-israeli-airstrikes/

Legal Conflict Between Art-Dealing Brothers Escalates Into Competing Assault Accusations

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/legal-conflict-aicon-brothers-escalated-assault-accusations-1234776413/

Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/institut-restellinis-amedeo-modigliani-catalogue-raisonne-1234776379/

Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/lucy-raven-dam-removal-murderers-bar-1234776380/

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Meet the Forgotten Women of the Flemish Golden Age

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/meet-the-forgotten-women-of-the-flemish-golden-age-2751227

Untitled Space’s Founder on Art, Activism, and Amplifying Marginalized Voices

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/indira-cesarine-the-untitled-space-2751120

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Ludovic Nkoth on Why He Paints the ‘Emotional Texture of Everyday Scenarios’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ludovic-nkoth-flag-art-foundation-2750895

What War in the Middle East Could Mean for the Art Trade

https://news.artnet.com/market/war-in-middle-east-art-trade-2751485

Art by Infamous Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/charles-bronson-art-auction-1234776112/

Biennial Hangover

https://hyperallergic.com/biennial-hangover/

Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Wielded Heavy Wood with a Light Touch, Dies at 99

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thaddeus-mosley-sculptor-dead-1234775273/

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Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/christies-triple-header-20th-and-21st-century-evening-sales-nets-265-m-as-london-proves-its-still-a-draw-to-collectors-1234776027/

$450 Million Newhouse Trove Heads to Christie’s, Led by $100 Million Pollock, Brancusi

https://news.artnet.com/market/450-million-newhouse-trove-heads-to-christies-led-by-100-million-pollock-2750035

How Should We Live With A.I.? A New Group Show Probes Our Ties With Technology

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/technologies-of-relation-mass-moca-2750592

‘A gilded edifice to one man’s ego’: critics pile on at public hearing on Trump’s White House ballroom plans

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/06/national-capital-planning-commission-hearing-trump-white-house-ballroom-east-wing

Pussy Riot slams Russia’s return to Venice Biennale

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/06/pussy-riot-slams-plans-russian-pavilion-venice-biennale

Israel-US Strikes Damage Tehran’s Historic Golestan Palace

https://hyperallergic.com/israel-us-strikes-damage-tehrans-historic-golestan-palace/

Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

https://hyperallergic.com/forget-about-getting-your-ai-art-copyrighted/

Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bauhaus-buildings-white-city-tel-aviv-damaged-1234776001/

Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/zanele-muholi-wins-2026-hasselblad-award-1234775981/

Pedro Friedeberg, Surrealist Artist Who Designed the Iconic Hand-Chair, Dies at 90

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pedro-friedeberg-surrealist-artist-dead-hand-chair-1234775992/

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Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-david-salle-painting-removed-spruth-magers-1234775836/

Unesco World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv damaged by Iranian missile strike

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/05/unesco-world-heritage-buildings-in-tel-aviv-damaged-by-iranian-missile-strike

Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception

https://hyperallergic.com/guggenheim-union-rallies-at-carol-bove-reception/

Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake

https://hyperallergic.com/olafur-eliasson-a-symphony-of-disappearing-sounds-for-the-great-salt-lake/

Art Institute of Chicago’s Beloved Stock Exchange Room May Be Impacted by Expansion Plans

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-institute-of-chicago-stock-exchange-expansion-plan-1234775823/

Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trumps-white-house-ballroom-proposal-too-big-1234775859/

Venice Biennale 2026: all the national pavilions, artists and curators so far

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/05/venice-biennale-2026-all-the-national-pavilions-artists-and-curators-so-far

Sotheby’s Kicks Off London Marquee Auctions With $175 Million White-Glove Sale

https://news.artnet.com/market/by-the-numbers-sothebys-london-march-2026-2751039

Carol Bove’s Gripping Guggenheim Retrospective Transcends Time and Space

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/carol-bove-guggenheim-museum-retrospective-review-1234775914/

‘No one was really interested in finding those works’: major Brazilian art theft still unsolved as statute of limitations expires

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/05/museum-heist-2006-museu-chacara-ceu-rio-statute-limitations

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Liliana Angulo Cortés, director of Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, has died, aged 51

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/04/liliana-angulo-cortes-museo-nacional-colombia-director-obituary

Obscured Gauguin nude sculpture may be revealed in its entirety following museum donation

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/04/gauguin-nude-sculpture-set-to-be-restoried-entirety-following-museum-donation

Exiled Belarus Free Theatre Brings Exhibition on Authoritarianism to the Venice Biennale

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/exiled-belarus-free-theatre-brings-exhibition-on-authoritarianism-to-the-venice-biennale-2749991

Trump Launches Traveling ‘Freedom Truck’ Exhibition

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-freedom-truck-exhibition-2749780

Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch

https://hyperallergic.com/explore-the-mets-collection-in-3d-from-your-couch/

Russia Returns to the Venice Biennale After a Hiatus

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/venice-biennale-2026-national-pavilions-2604196

Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum

https://hyperallergic.com/long-lost-rembrandt-goes-on-display-at-the-rijksmuseum/

New Book Reveals British Museum Staffer Stole 350 Artworks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-staffer-stole-artworks-1234775632/

Guggenheim Union Rallies Outside Carol Bove Reception for New Contract

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/guggenheim-union-rally-carol-bove-new-contract-1234775718/

New Allegations Disrupt Sentencing in Massive Norval Morrisseau Forgery Case

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/norval-morrisseau-forgery-case-sentencing-interrupted-1234775644/

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First Looks at the 2026 Whitney Biennial: Politics, Memory, and Unexpected Emotion

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/whitney-biennial-2026-first-takes-2750160

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Grant Copyright to A.I.-Generated Artwork

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-art-copyright-supreme-court-ruling-2750081

‘It doesn’t put walls around everything’: behind the plans for Manila’s new contemporary art centre

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/behind-plans-for-manila-new-contemporary-art-centre

Spain’s galleries are protesting against high taxes—can Arco Madrid help voice their concerns?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/arco-madrid-45th-edition-benefits-from-influx-of-latin-americans-to-the-new-miami

Tehran’s Unesco-listed Golestan Palace reportedly damaged by US-Israeli strikes

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/03/us-israeli-strikes-damage-unesco-listed-golestan-palace-tehran

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

https://hyperallergic.com/plan-to-close-depaul-art-museum-faces-community-backlash/

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/video-game-leo-castaneda-2026-whitney-biennial-1234775440/

Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israel Bombing of Iran

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/golestan-palace-tehran-damaged-us-israel-bombing-1234775457/

Russia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is Set to Reopen This Year, But Officials Say It Isn’t a ‘Return’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/russian-pavilion-2026-venice-biennale-return-1234775410/

Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for $7.6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/midseaon-auctions-2026-analysis-jeff-koons-1234775448/

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Claire Tabouret Says Her Controversial Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame ‘Come From Place of Love’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/claire-tabouret-notre-dame-2738599

The Lume, the Controversial Immersive Digital Art Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Closed at the End of February

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-lume-controversial-immersive-digital-art-gallery-indianapolis-museum-of-art-closed-1234775359/

UAE galleries close amid Iran missile strikes

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/02/dubai-and-abu-dhabi-galleries-close-in-wake-of-iran-missile-strikes

Danger and inspiration: Bangladeshi artists divided about country’s future after historic election

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/02/bangladeshi-artists-divided-about-future-after-historic-election

Middle East Museums Brace For War, Whitney Biennial Nears Opening, and More: Morning Links for March 2, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/middle-east-museums-war-morning-links-march-2-2026-1234775307/

Painting That Went Unseen for Decades Is a True Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Says

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rembrandt-discovered-rijksmuseum-zacharias-in-the-temple-1234775302/

Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/supreme-court-declines-reconsider-copyright-case-ai-art-1234775358/

Iconic ‘Fly’s Eye Dome’ Sculpture in Long Island Collapsed During Blizzard

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/buckminster-fuller-dome-sculpture-damaged-blizzard-1234775319/

School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program

https://hyperallergic.com/school-of-visual-arts-shutters-its-curatorial-practice-ma-program/

Winston Churchill Statue Vandalized in London with Graffiti Reading ‘Free Palestine’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/winston-churchill-statue-vandalized-1234775323/

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The Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity Politics for Infrastructural Interventions. The Verdict: All Systems Go.

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/whitney-biennial-2026-systems-infrastructure-andrea-fraser-carmen-de-monteflores-emilie-gossiaux-david-johnson-1234775255/

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

At Frieze Los Angeles, Greg Ito’s bright baggage carries hope

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/27/frieze-los-angeles-greg-ito-bright-baggage-carries-hope

‘We're the Tijuana of the tent’: non-profit Ambos's stand at Frieze Los Angeles is relocated

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/27/ambos-frieze-los-angeles-stand-moved

Curator Diya Vij Picked as New York City’s Next Commissioner of Cultural Affairs

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/diya-vij-new-york-city-commissioner-of-cultural-affairs-1234775079/

In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/los-angeles-frieze-art-world-jeffrey-epstein-tod-lippy-1234775119/

Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture Commissioner

https://hyperallergic.com/diya-vij-named-nyc-culture-commissioner/

What's a Gen X to Do?

https://hyperallergic.com/whats-a-gen-x-to-do/