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.

Edward Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art

https://hyperallergic.com/edward-church-peter-hujar-looted-art/

Leaks Spotted in New Museum Gallery with WangShui Work as NYC Braces for Floods

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-museum-leaks-closure-flash-floods-wangshui-work-1234792787/

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

A de Kooning Homecoming! Rijksmuseum Preps Blockbuster

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/de-kooning-rijksmuseum-2788860

A New Culture Crackdown in Hong Kong—and Other Art Matters

https://news.artnet.com/artnet-bulletin/hong-kong-bookseller-arrests-other-art-matters-2788711

Ana Mendieta’s True Legacy Takes Flight at Tate Modern

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ana-mendieta-tate-modern-2788289

Whereabouts of Cuban artist-activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara remain unknown following end of prison sentence

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/17/whereabouts-of-cuban-artist-activist-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara-remain-unknown-following-end-of-prison-sentence

Italy returns 27 historical objects to Mexico after investigations by art hit squad

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/17/italy-returns-27-historical-objects-to-mexico-after-investigations-by-art-hit-squad

Shanghai Auction Executives Sentenced in Major Fraud Case as Industry Scrutiny Intensifies

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/shanghai-auction-executives-sentenced-in-major-fraud-case-1234792736/

Congressional Representatives Introduce New Bill to Protect Public Artworks in Government Buildings

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-bill-protect-public-artworks-government-buildings-1234792754/

A Mural at Ancient City of Calakmul May Be the Oldest Known Image of Maya Hero Juun Ajaw

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/painting-at-calakmul-may-be-of-maya-mythical-hero-juun-ajaw-1234792541/

How the Surrealists Psyopped the Gestapo and Otherwise Fought Fascism

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/surrealism-antifascism-in-the-very-bowels-of-change-modern-warsaw-dali-picasso-1234792418/

Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem

https://hyperallergic.com/zendayas-earrings-are-part-of-a-much-bigger-problem/

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Detroit Institute of Arts director finds missing Velázquez painting

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/16/detroit-institute-of-arts-director-finds-missing-velazquez-painting

Bavaria Revamps Procedures for Evaluating Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bavaria-revamp-procedures-restitution-nazi-looted-art-1234792420/

Welcome to the Society of the Psyop

https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/trevor-paglen-society-of-the-psyop-2784007

US congress introduces bill to protect public art in federal buildings targeted by Trump administration

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/16/us-congress-introduces-bill-to-protect-public-art-in-federal-buildings-targeted-by-trump-administration

Manhattan District Attorney Repatriates Three Antiquities to Mexico

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manhattan-district-attorney-repatriation-mexico-1234792453/

UK Politicians Call For Investigation of British Museum’s Removal of ‘Palestine’ from Display

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-politicians-call-for-investigation-of-british-museums-removal-of-palestine-from-display-1234792435/

New Lawsuit Alleges Stolen Pierre Soulages Painting Sold at Christie’s as Part of Weis Collection

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pierre-soulages-allegedly-stolen-weis-collection-christies-1234792426/

Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%

https://hyperallergic.com/trump-shrinks-utah-national-monuments-by-90/

Steidl, the Art World’s Go-To Photobook Publisher, Faces Insolvency Proceedings in Germany

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/steidl-the-art-worlds-go-to-photobook-publisher-faces-insolvency-proceedings-in-germany-1234792400/

A New Perspective on Munch’s Famous Frieze, How NYC’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit Transformed the Art Market: Morning Links for July 16, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/a-new-perspective-on-munchs-famous-frieze-how-nycs-antiquities-trafficking-unit-transformed-the-art-market-morning-links-for-july-16-2026-1234792361/

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V&A reveals 2027 exhibitions, ranging from South Asian contemporary art and textiles to punk music and fashion

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/15/va-reveals-2027-exhibition-programming-ranging-from-south-asian-contemporary-art-and-textiles-to-punk-music-and-fashion

Christie’s and Sotheby’s 2026 half year results: trophy lots and luxury goods fuel rebound

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/15/trophy-lots-and-luxury-goods-fuel-rebound-for-christies-and-sothebys-2026-half-year-results

Bavaria approves creation of Nazi loot panel and independent entity for provenance research

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/15/bavaria-approves-creation-of-nazi-loot-panel-and-independent-entity-provenance-research

A Rousing Tate Modern Retrospective Refuses to Reduce Ana Mendieta to a Tragic Figure

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/tate-modern-retrospective-ana-mendieta-1234792240/

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

https://hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-many-museums-hold-a-convicted-antiquity-dealers-treasures/

Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bacteria-legionnaires-disease-metropolitan-museum-of-art-1234792234/

Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks

https://hyperallergic.com/cape-town-gallery-accused-of-withholding-pay-and-artworks/

At Management Gallery, Grotesque Art Evolves for the Doomscroll Era

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/at-management-gallery-grotesque-art-evolves-for-the-doomscroll-era-1234792218/

Jacolby Satterwhite Receives Inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant From Rema Hort Mann Fund and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/jacolby-satterwhite-artists-living-with-cancer-grant-rema-hort-mann-fund-1234792252/

Fresh Insights into China’s Famed Sanxingdui Illuminate Ancient Trade Networks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chinese-bronze-assembled-from-pieces-1234792249/

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Sotheby’s Posts $4.4 Billion in First-Half Sales, a New Record

https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-h1-sales-2787726

Sotheby’s $50.1 M. T. Rex Sale Sets New Record as Scientists Scowl

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/sothebys-gus-t-rex-record-50-million-dinosaur-auction-1234792060/

Robert Rauschenberg foundation donates three sculptures to shared Tate and National Galleries of Scotland collection

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/14/robert-rauschenberg-foundation-donates-three-sculptures-to-joint-tate-and-national-galleries-of-scotland-collection

Roberta Smith Made Kenny Schachter Cry. Twice. And He Still Sings Her Praises

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roberta-smith-house-of-criticism-review-2787686

For Michael Asher, the Museum Was the Medium

https://hyperallergic.com/for-michael-asher-the-museum-was-the-medium/

Why The Met Returned a Roman Bust

https://hyperallergic.com/why-the-met-returned-a-roman-bust/

Man Charged in Theft of More Than 600 Artifacts from UK’s Bristol Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bristol-museum-heist-man-charged-1234792076/

Superblue Teams Up With Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre to Bring Immersive Art to Mumbai

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/superblue-nita-mukesh-ambani-cultural-centre-second-nature-1234792119/

Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality

https://hyperallergic.com/meet-the-doyennes-of-ecosexuality/

Dealer Dominique Lévy Says She Received Death Threats After Denouncing Post–October 7 Letter in Artforum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/dominique-levy-october-7-death-threats-artforum-letter-1234792057/

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New York Investigators Return $600,000 Worth of Looted Art—and More Art Industry News

https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jul-13-2787586

Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art Plans Bangkok Branch

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-of-old-and-new-art-bangkok-outpost-2787630

Ana Mendieta’s ‘Neolithic art’ recreated for major Tate Modern survey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/13/ana-mendietas-neolithic-art-recreated-for-major-tate-modern-survey

Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago Among Amsterdam’s Street Trash Will Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nazi-looted-painting-jacques-goudstikker-returned-1234792013/

High Museum of Art’s Former COO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $600,000

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/high-museum-art-former-coo-guilty-embezzling-1234791968/

A Convicted Antiquities Dealer’s Web

https://hyperallergic.com/a-convicted-antiquities-dealers-web/

Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara?

https://hyperallergic.com/where-is-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara/

Louvre Jewel Heist Suspects Claim ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-jewel-heist-suspects-claim-sponsor-recruited-them-1234791929/

Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?

https://hyperallergic.com/should-we-see-peter-hujars-contact-sheets/

EU Commission Recommends Cancelation of Venice Biennale Grant over Russian Pavilion

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/eu-commission-cancelation-venice-biennale-grant-russia-1234791923/

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

Meet 5 Midwestern Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/midwestern-artists-gallery-network-2785585

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

Results at the Big Three Auction Houses Tell Two Different Stories

https://news.artnet.com/market/mid-year-review-auctions-2787320

Magritte, Constable, Trump's Smithsonian Wrath

https://hyperallergic.com/magritte-constable-trumps-smithsonian-wrath/

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Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum in London after secret English Channel crossing

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-at-the-british-museum-after-secret-english-channel-crossing

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art announces plans for Thailand outpost

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/tasmanias-museum-of-old-and-new-art-announces-plans-for-thailand-outpost

Exhibition in Bogotá shows off more than 1,000 repatriated pre-Columbian artefacts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/exhibition-in-bogota-shows-off-more-than-1000-repatriated-pre-columbian-artefacts

Gelman Collection controversy reaches Mexican courts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/could-mexicos-treasured-kahlo-works-leave-the-country-forever

Unesco reviewing controversial ‘black cube’ project in Florence amid outrage

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/unesco-reviewing-controversial-black-cube-project-in-florence-amid-outrage

Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-staffers-accuse-cape-town-gallery-smac-nonpayment-1234791540/

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

https://hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-many-museums-hold-a-convicted-antiquity-dealers-treasures/

US Returns Two Looted Bronze Buddha Statues, Sold by Disgraced Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford, to Indonesia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-returns-indonesia-looted-bronze-buddha-statues-douglas-latchford-1234791873/

ICOM Adopts New Museum Code of Ethics Taking Aim at AI, Colonialism, and Climate Change

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/icom-new-museum-code-of-ethics-ai-colonialism-climate-change-1234791845/

Which Artworks Will Grace the High Line’s Plinth Next?

https://hyperallergic.com/which-artworks-will-grace-the-high-lines-plinth-next/