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

New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-returns-59-antiquities-to-italy-iraq-indonesia-1234791699/

Midjourney strikes back: sued AI giant demands Hollywood’s secrets

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/midjourney-demands-hollywood-AI-secrets

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-white-house-report-july-4-1234791701/

Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/edi-rama-defends-kanye-west-concert-tirana-1234791728/

Venice Arts Workers to Protest During US Ambassador’s Visit

https://hyperallergic.com/venice-arts-workers-to-protest-during-us-ambassadors-visit/

Hauser & Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo Artwork

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hauser-wirth-cleared-breaching-russia-sanctions-condo-1234791702/

Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement

https://hyperallergic.com/chicago-photographer-accuses-mickalene-thomas-of-copyright-infringement/

Los Angeles's Post-Fair will expand to Paris during Art Basel week

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/los-angeless-post-fair-will-expand-to-paris-during-art-basel-week

Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/icom-adopts-new-code-of-ethics-for-museums-in-bid-to-address-a-rapidly-changing-world

Flamenco, fashion and freedom: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/riots-resistance-and-the-birth-of-a-new-country-three-photography-shows-to-see-at-les-rencontres-darles

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New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/new-museum-names-massimiliano-gioni-as-new-director

White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/white-patriarchal-and-christian-white-house-vision-for-the-national-museum-of-american-history

Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/italy-advances-legislation-nazi-looted-art-restitution-1234791606/

Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/patti-smith-and-soundwalk-collectives-sprawling-arles-installation-offers-haunting-world-view

Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/ukraine-gives-its-troops-a-handbook-on-protecting-cultural-property

Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages

https://hyperallergic.com/whitney-museum-screens-taken-over-with-gaza-protest-messages/

Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mickalene-thomas-lawsuit-barbara-karant-infingement-1234791577/

High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/high-line-plinth-artist-proposals-2029-2030-commissions-1234791398/

The Hidden History of Stock Photography

https://hyperallergic.com/the-hidden-history-of-stock-photography/

The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/netherlands-germany-return-2000-artifacts-ghana-1234789956/

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Massimiliano Gioni Will Lead the New Museum

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/massimiliano-gioni-new-museum-director-2786527

This Giant Spider at Frieze London Will Transport You to a Digital World

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frieze-artist-award-theo-triantafyllidis-2786271

Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-new-museum-new-york-1234791359/

Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/luisa-cunha-portuguese-conceptual-artist-dies-77-1234791364/

Texas Covers Up Beloved "Black Artists Matter" Mural in Austin

https://hyperallergic.com/texas-covers-up-beloved-black-artists-matter-mural-in-austin/

Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pro-palestine-strike-over-us-ambassador-visit-to-venice-1234791414/

UK Artists Accuse Shuttering Artist Pension Trust of ‘Epic Betrayal,’ Former Barnes Foundation President Richard Glanton Has Died, and More: Morning Links for July 7, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-artist-pension-trust-shutters-morning-links-july-7-2026-1234791307/

An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/english-national-first-convicted-violating-russia-sanctions-1234791248/

Trump’s Unhinged Attacks on the Smithsonian

https://hyperallergic.com/trumps-unhinged-attacks-on-the-smithsonian/

Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/louisiana-museum-denmark-annouces-remedios-varo-exhibition-fall-1234791322/

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Yemen Identifies 28 Looted Artifacts at British Museum, London Auction Houses

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yemen-looted-artifacts-british-museum-auctions-1234791176/

New White House Report Alleges ‘Anti-White’ Bias at Smithsonian

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/white-house-july-4-report-smithsonian-2786226

When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/museum-mergers-neue-galerie-met-museum

In Chloe Wise’s ‘Extrasensory’ Basel Show, UFOs Meet Scripture

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chloe-wise-basel-interview-2786414

Businessman Fined in U.K.’s First Russia Art Sanctions Conviction

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/russia-sanctions-conviction-2786232

Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/experts-blame-earthquake-damage-in-venezuela-on-government-neglect

Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum

https://hyperallergic.com/thieves-steal-over-4-5m-in-jewelry-from-french-museum/

In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor

https://hyperallergic.com/in-two-chicago-exhibitions-liberation-takes-the-floor/

Amid Its Own Copyright Controversy, Midjourney Asks Court to Reveal How Disney Uses AI

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/copyright-midjourney-court-to-reveal-how-disney-uses-ai-1234791213/

Yervant Gianikian, Artist Who Helped Win Armenia the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, Dies at 84

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yervant-gianikian-artist-filmmaker-dead-1234791166/

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How Alexandria Gallery Went From Cleveland Pop-Up to Global Force

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alexandria-gallery-woodmere-2785495

Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-heist-perfect-day-the-mastermind-how-to-steal-a-million-lemle-1234791022/

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Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/e-1027-house-eileen-gray-lorna-bauer-2785325

Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us

https://hyperallergic.com/akira-ikezoes-frogs-and-bears-have-something-urgent-to-tell-us/

Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture

https://hyperallergic.com/charles-seliger-painted-natures-invisible-architecture/

Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space

https://hyperallergic.com/revisiting-35-years-of-an-iconic-newark-artist-led-space/

A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi

https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-344/

Art and Resistance on the Nation’s 250th

https://hyperallergic.com/weekly-7-4-26/

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Etruscan frescoes worth €15m go on display in Rome as part of Italian acquisition strategy

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/etruscan-frescoes-worth-£15m-go-on-display-in-rome-as-part-of-italian-acquisition-strategy

Smithsonian museum will loan more than 200 works to institutions in all 50 states and Puerto Rico

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/hirshhorn-museum-art-bridges-loans-every-us-state-puerto-rico

There’s New Money in Old Masters

https://news.artnet.com/market/new-money-old-masters-2786051

‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/even-sewing-a-button-can-be-subversive-ai-weiwei-weaves-stories-of-colonialism-and-exile-into-vast-new-manchester-show

Epstein files reveal Leon Black as a key Van Gogh buyer

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/epstein-papers-reveal-leon-black-as-key-collector-of-van-gogh-works

The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-seventies-helene-bailly-marcilhac-2785263

Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thousands-try-for-tickets-to-bayeux-tapestry-british-museum-1234791120/

Artists Reclaim Lady Liberty

https://hyperallergic.com/artists-reclaim-lady-liberty/

A Standout 250th Show Confronts Centuries of American Contradictions

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/america-250-standout-new-york-historical-democracy-matters-thomas-cole-1234791012/

British Museum Recasts America’s Founding Through Indigenous Eyes

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-america-250-show-2784208

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Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/canadian-museum-human-rights-palestine-uprooted-nakba-exhibition-politics

How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music

https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/doug-aitken-the-shed-2779635

Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/artist-erna-rosenstein-whose-work-about-memory-and-loss-resonates-today-subject-of-major-vienna-exhibition

President and general manager of leading Marseille art institution Mucem suspended amid workplace allegations

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/president-and-general-manager-of-leading-marseille-art-institution-mucem-suspended-amid-workplace-allegations

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Reimagines America on Its 250th Birthday

https://hyperallergic.com/museum-of-fine-arts-boston-reimagines-america-on-its-250th-birthday/

Artist Calls on Manifesta 16 to Remove Installation, Alleging Plagarism

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manifesta-plagiarism-allegation-nasan-tur-dorothee-bielfeld-1234791108/

Photograph by Boris Mikhailov Stolen from Lithuanian Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/boris-mikhailov-photograph-stolen-lithuanian-national-museum-1234791089/

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces a Record $323.8 M. in Culture Funding

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-mayor-mamdani-announces-record-culture-funding-1234791047/

Phillips Has Sold Nearly $2 M. Worth of Art from Disgraced Art Adviser Lisa Schiff’s Collection

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/phillips-lisa-schiff-collection-sales-1234791064/

19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/02/19th-century-bronze-laocoon-leads-london-old-master-auctions-selling-for-£136m-at-sothebys

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Value of Looted Objects at Met Museum Tops $95M After New Seizures

https://hyperallergic.com/value-of-looted-objects-at-met-museum-tops-95m-after-new-seizures/

León Ferrari exhibition cancelled in Chile amid cuts to culture budget

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/01/leon-ferrari-exhibition-cancelled-chile-museo-nacional-bellas-artes

At New York’s Swiss Institute, SoiL Thornton ponders the role an art institution can play in the face of a housing crisis

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/01/at-new-yorks-swiss-institute-soil-thornton-ponders-the-role-an-art-institution-can-play-in-the-face-of-a-housing-crisis

Facing Protests and Political Pressure, Canadian Humans Rights Opens Palestine Exhibition

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/facing-protests-and-political-pressure-canadian-humans-rights-opens-palestine-exhibition-1234790963/

NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture

https://hyperallergic.com/nyc-mayor-mamdani-approves-record-323m-funding-for-culture/

Getty Images and Shutterstock Pull the Plug on $3.7 Billion Merger

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/getty-images-shutterstock-cancel-merger-1234790924/

Manhattan DA’s Office Seized Dozens of Antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in June, Bringing Total to $95 M.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manhattan-d-a-seized-dozens-of-antiquities-from-met-in-june-1234790907/

Norval Morrisseau Case Deepens as Art Expert Says the Artist’s Children Were in on Forgery Scheme

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/norval-morrisseau-children-forgery-scheme-expert-testimony-1234790939/

Mexican Government Faces Legal Action over Its Handling of Art Collection Rich in Kahlos

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gelman-collection-kahlo-mexico-santander-legal-action-1234790914/

On Truth Social, Trump Plasters an AI-Generated Golden Bald Eagle on the White House

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/truth-social-trump-ai-golden-bald-eagle-white-house-1234790937/

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Workers at the Guggenheim in New York vote to authorise a strike

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/30/guggenheim-museum-workers-new-york-vote-authorise-strike

Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo Tapped for Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/skulptur-projekte-munster-artists-2027-2784959

Switzerland Returns 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/switzerland-returned-benin-bronzes-restitution-2785078

Artistic Director for 2028 Gwangju Biennale Will Be Selected Via Open-Call in Break from Tradition

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gwangju-biennale-artistic-director-open-call-1234790814/

Russia’s Hermitage Museum Suspends Archaeological Expeditions in Crimea, Citing Fuel Shortage

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hermitage-museum-suspends-archaeological-expeditions-crimea-1234790797/

Rune Mields, Self-Taught German Conceptual Artist, Dies at 91

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rune-mields-conceptual-artist-dead-1234790852/

Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry

https://hyperallergic.com/philip-gustons-lines-of-poetry/

Christie’s Old Masters Sale in London Totals $48.7 M. as Collectors Chase Standout Pictures

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/christies-old-masters-evening-sale-june-2026-results-1234790894/

Researchers Utilize AI to Translate 2,000-Year-Old Carbonized Scrolls from Herculaneum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/researchers-ai-translate-2000-year-old-carbonized-scrolls-herculaneum-1234790862/

IM Youngzoo’s ‘The Late’ Blends a 1,254-Page Research Book and a 7-Channel Video Into a Meditation on Belief and Technology

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/im-youngzoo-the-late-review-space-zeroone-brooklyn-1234790848/