Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news.
Artnet News
- The Silent Emergency Facing Museums: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/silent-emergency-facing-museums-2694963
- The Affordable Art Fair Makes Its Boston Debut: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/affordable-art-fair-boston-2697453
- Henri Matisse Drawings Rake in More Than $2.5 Million at Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/henri-matisse-drawings-benefit-auction-2684925
- ‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/humans-of-new-york-grand-central-2698047
- Hispanic Society Museum Is Selling Dozens of Old Master Paintings: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hispanic-society-museum-old-master-painting-sale-2698117
- There’s a New Sheriff in Town: Kenny Schachter on Judd, Community, and Car Trouble in Marfa: https://news.artnet.com/market/kenny-schachter-marfa-diary-part-1-2697819
- Inside Fondation Cartier’s Shape-Shifting New Paris Museum by Jean Nouvel: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fondation-cartiers-new-paris-museum-jean-nouvel-2697589
- Public Television Forced to Sell Off Bob Ross Paintings After Congress Slashes Funds: https://news.artnet.com/market/public-television-auction-bob-ross-paintings-2697948
- Four Photographers Documenting the Majesty and Menace of the Natural World: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/important-photographs-2697545
- In Venice, Architects, Curators, and Scholars Are Rethinking Architecture: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/in-venice-architects-curators-and-scholars-are-rethinking-architecture-2697654
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
- Bonhams will auction 30 Bob Ross paintings to benefit public television following Trump’s funding cuts: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/bonhams-auction-bob-ross-paintings-to-benefit-american-public-television
- Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/alice-diop-fragments-for-venus-bingham-bryant-doomed-and-famous-new-york-film-festival
- Comment | Executive odour: Trump’s fervour inspires more flag burning: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/dread-scott-donald-trump-flag-burning-executive-odour
- Artists Zadie Xa and Dominic Chambers contribute works to Art of Wishes auction raising funds for critically ill children: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/artists-zadie-xa-and-dominic-chambers-contribute-works-to-art-of-wishes-auction-raising-funds-for-critically-ill-children
- Sotheby’s to sell painting from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo show: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/sothebys-to-sell-painting-from-jean-michel-basquiats-first-solo-show
- Discovery of 11,000-year-old carved face in Turkey offers new insight into early human expression: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/discovery-of-11000-year-old-carved-face-in-turkey-offers-new-insight-into-early-human-expression
- As censorship rises, is there a future for truly political, truth-telling art?: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/as-censorship-rises-is-there-a-future-for-political-truth-telling-art
- Peter Doig is bringing a cult classic London pub back to life—here's why it matters: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/peter-doig-is-bringing-a-cult-classic-london-pub-back-to-life
- A brush with… Suzanne Jackson—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/a-brush-with-suzanne-jacksonpodcast
- Flemish government announces plans to dissolve Antwerp's Museum of Contemporary Art: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/flemish-government-announces-plans-to-dissolve-antwerps-museum-of-contemporary-art
- Is an auction house's loss a gallery's gain? Pilar Ordovas collaborates with former Sotheby's specialists for African and Oceanic art show: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/knowledge-pays-the-best-interest-art-dealer-pilar-ordovas-collaborates-with-expert-jean-fritts-for-african-and-oceanic-art-show
- Comment | Bristol's Spike Island has become an environmental beacon—here's why it makes financial sense for others to follow suit: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/bristols-spike-island-is-a-green-beaconheres-why-it-makes-environmental-and-financial-sense-for-other-arts-space-to-follow-suit
- Art Basel names 87 galleries taking part in inaugural Qatar fair: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/09/art-basel-qatar-names-galleries-inaugural-edition
ARTnews.com
- Jeff Koons Returns to Gagosian with First New York Show in Seven Years: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jeff-koons-first-new-york-show-2025-gagosian-1234756367/
- Ancient Egyptian Iconography Discovered in a Roman-Era Bathhouse in Turkey: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-egyptian-iconography-roman-bathhouse-sagalassos-turkey-1234756387/
- Beloved London Gallery Harlesden High Street Goes to Mayfair For an Open-Ended Pop-up: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/harlesden-high-street-mayfair-1234756327/
- Christie’s Online Sale of Jonathan Burden Decorative Arts Collection Totals More than $1 M., Smashing Low Estimate of $487,500: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/christies-jonathan-burden-decorative-arts-auction-results-1234756132/
- A New Contemporary Art Center in Kazakhstan Puts Decolonization into Practice: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tselinny-center-of-contemporary-culture-opening-1234755529/
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrands to … the Philadelphia Art Museum: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/philadelphia-museum-of-art-rebrands-philadelphia-art-museum-1234756332/
- UNESCO’s New Chief Faces Big Challenges Amid US Exit and Accusations of Anti-Israel Bias: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/unesco-new-chief-gaza-and-ukraine-us-exit-anti-israel-bias-1234756336/
- National Portrait Gallery Cancels Exhibition Events Due to Government Shutdown: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-portrait-gallery-cancels-exhibition-events-due-to-government-shutdown-1234756324/
- Berlin Gallery Société Now Represents Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/berlin-gallery-societe-represents-edi-rama-prime-minister-albania-1234756310/
- LACMA Receives 130 Austrian Expressionist Artworks from the Otto Kallir Family, Including its First Klimt: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lacma-donation-from-the-otto-kallir-family-gustav-klimt-1234756125/
Hyperallergic
- Vaginal Davis Is Queercore’s Fairy Godmother: https://hyperallergic.com/1048333/vaginal-davis-is-los-angeles-queercore-fairy-godmother-moma-ps1/
- Required Reading: https://hyperallergic.com/1048378/required-reading-754/
- How Textiles Weave Together the Cycle of Life: https://hyperallergic.com/1048372/how-textiles-weave-together-the-cycle-of-life/
- California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering “Political” Art: https://hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepperdine-university-california-school-shutters-exhibition-after-altering-political-art/
- 30 Bob Ross Paintings Head to Auction to Support Public Media: https://hyperallergic.com/1048471/30-bob-ross-paintings-head-to-auction-to-support-public-media/
- Smithsonian Institution Postpones Prestigious Portrait Exhibition: https://hyperallergic.com/1048386/smithsonian-institution-postpones-prestigious-outwin-portrait-competition-exhibition/
- A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined: https://hyperallergic.com/1048010/elsie-siegel-abigail-dudley-tandem-dance-of-the-seen-and-imagined/
- A View From the Easel: https://hyperallergic.com/1048202/a-view-from-the-easel-306/
