Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- Slim Phillips London Sale Totals $13.9 Million, Off 32 Percent From 2024: https://news.artnet.com/market/phillips-london-modern-contemporary-art-basquiat-emma-mcintyre-2701048
- Manga Mania Gets Its Big Museum Moment: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/manga-art-podcast-2677306
- Her Intricate Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandts. Who Was the Dutch Master Known as ‘Scissors Minerva’?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/joanna-koerten-paper-cutting-nwma-dutch-women-2698104
- Meet the Gods and Goddesses in the Met’s ‘Divine Egypt’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/divine-egypt-met-2697339
- Sean Kelly Gallery Nixes Los Angeles Shows, Will Operate Privately: https://news.artnet.com/market/sean-kelly-gallery-los-angeles-closure-2700765
- Millennial Collectors Snap Up Historical Works at Frieze Masters: https://news.artnet.com/market/frieze-masters-next-gen-2700630
- Gene Hackman’s Personal Collection Goes Up for Sale: https://news.artnet.com/market/gene-hackman-collection-auction-bonhams-2700910
- You Can Now See the Guillotine Linked to Marie Antoinette’s Demise: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marie-antoinette-execution-guillotine-va-exhibition-2699550
- At $143 Million Christie’s Sale in London, Peter Doig Painting Soars, Yoshitomo Nara Flops: https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-london-peter-doig-by-the-numbers-2698565
- Swedish Man Stumbles on Massive Hoard of Silver Coins and Jewelry: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/massive-silver-hoard-discovered-stockholm-2700531
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Embracing independence: meet the artists giving galleries a swerve: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/embracing-independence-meet-the-artists-giving-galleries-a-swerve
- In the frame: photography comes to the fore at Frieze London and beyond: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/in-the-frame-photography-comes-to-the-fore-at-frieze-london-and-beyond
- From fossils to fine art: top sales at Frieze Masters London: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/from-fossils-to-fine-art-top-sales-at-frieze-masters-london
- Frieze London diary: hair at the fair, art takes the streets and dreamers hit the sheets: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/frieze-london-diary-hair-at-the-fair-art-takes-the-streets-and-dreamers-hit-the-sheets
- ‘Greater balance and fairness’ in stand pricing brings diverse galleries to Frieze London: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/greater-balance-and-fairness-in-stand-pricing-brings-diverse-galleries-to-frieze-london
- Solidarity and shared optimism take centre stage at 1-54 fair: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/solidarity-and-shared-optimism-take-centre-stage-at-1-54-fair
- Archaeologists from Costa Rica and Mexico restore ancient stone spheres at Unesco World Heritage site: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/ancient-sphere-carvings-diquis-culture-costa-rica-restoration-mexico
- In pictures: demand is high at the Pavilion of Art and Design: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/in-pictures-demand-is-high-at-the-pavilion-of-art-and-design
- Cultural resistance to Trump begins to form, with artists leading the charge: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/artists-leading-cultural-resistance-donald-trump-administration
- Comic strips look to the future at the Cartoon Museum in London: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/comic-strips-envision-the-future-at-the-cartoon-museum-in-london
- At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/at-londons-barbican-lucy-raven-chronicles-the-destruction-of-a-california-dam
- ‘We are in a very special situation as collectors’: Petr Pudil on opening the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, and the art he collects: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/we-are-in-a-very-special-situation-as-collectors-petr-pudil-on-opening-the-kunsthalle-praha-in-prague-and-the-art-he-collects
- Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘AI will not destroy humanity, we are doing it ourselves’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/michelangelo-pistoletto-ai-will-not-destroy-humanity-we-are-doing-it-ourselves
- Comment | Galleries are looking to merch to keep spirits up—it's a joyful move in challenging times: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/comment-|-galleries-are-looking-to-merch-to-keep-spirits-upits-a-joyful-move-in-challenging-times
- Tony Fitzpatrick, indefatigable artistic polymath from Chicago, has died, aged 66: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/tony-fitzpatrick-artist-polymath-chicago-obituary
- Extravagant Munich museum dedicated to Symbolist Franz von Stuck to reopen after €13.5m renovation: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/extravagant-munich-museum-symbolist-franz-von-stuck-renovation
- Remembering Sylvio Perlstein, the Belgian art collector and jeweller, who died aged 94: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/remembering-sylvio-perlstein-the-belgian-art-collector-and-jeweller-who-died-aged-94
- How British Museum artefacts are coming out of the cabinets and into the classroom: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/how-british-museum-artefacts-are-coming-out-of-the-cabinets-and-into-the-classroom
- After 550 years, a fabric found in a Norwich bishop’s tomb is recreated: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/16/after-550-years-a-fabric-found-in-a-norwich-bishops-tomb-is-recreated
ARTnews.com
- Five 18th-Century Snuff Boxes Stolen from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum Have Been Recovered: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stolen-snuff-boxes-recovered-cognacq-jay-museum-paris-1234757746/
- An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Be Writing Art History: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/an-indigenous-takeover-of-the-met-asks-who-should-be-writing-art-history-1234757699/
- Francis Bacon Painting Sells for $17.6 M at Sotheby’s London, Leading $63.3 M. Sale: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/sothebys-london-contemporary-evening-sale-francis-bacon-1234757709/
- Robert Rauschenberg Dance Performances Make a Cozy Home at the Guggenheim: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-rauschenberg-dance-guggenheim-1234757639/
- Exhibition of Erotic Art Owned by Top 200 Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Opens at Miami’s Museum of Sex: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/erotic-art-top-200-collector-beth-rudin-dewoody-opens-miami-museum-of-sex-1234757649/
- $3.2 M Basquiat Headlines Smaller Phillips London Sale, Down 30 Percent From Last Year: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/phillips-london-evening-sale-frieze-results-1234757669/
- Poor Farmer Posed as Maharaja to Sell Fake Paintings by M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, Indian Investigators Allege: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fake-paintings-india-investment-banker-farmer-charge-sheet-1234757550/
- Man Arrested for Vandalizing Martin Luther King Memorial in Atlanta: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-arrested-for-vandalizing-martin-luther-king-memorial-atlanta-georgia-1234757631/
- Pace Japan Director Makes the Case for Why Tokyo Can Be Asia’s ‘Center of Art’: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/pace-japan-director-tokyo-interview-1234757210/
- The Stakes Are High For Emerging Galleries at Frieze; Some Are Selling, Others Aren’t As Lucky: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-stakes-are-high-for-emerging-galleries-at-frieze-some-are-selling-others-arent-as-lucky-1234757562/
Hyperallergic
- School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA: https://hyperallergic.com/1049994/school-nixes-exhibition-criticized-by-turning-point-usa/
- The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck: https://hyperallergic.com/1049985/whitney-museum-sixties-surreal-is-a-mindfuck/
- Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration: https://hyperallergic.com/1050039/artists-nationwide-unite-against-the-trump-administration/
- Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month: https://hyperallergic.com/1049937/altman-siegel-gallery-to-close-next-month/
- Ancient Rock Art Rewrites the Arabian Desert’s History: https://hyperallergic.com/1047937/ancient-rock-art-rewrites-the-arabian-deserts-history/
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1049892/required-reading-755/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1049833/a-view-from-the-easel-307/
- Five DC Exhibitions You Can See Despite the Government Shutdown: https://hyperallergic.com/1049869/five-dc-exhibitions-you-can-see-despite-the-government-shutdown/
- Skirball Cultural Center Presents Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston: https://hyperallergic.com/1049334/skirball-cultural-center-draw-them-in-paint-them-out-trenton-doyle-hancock-confronts-philip-guston/
- Textile Futures: Register for the Virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable: https://hyperallergic.com/1048717/textile-futures-virtual-cotsen-textile-traces-global-roundtable/
