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

Exclusive: an unknown archive of treasures from Van Gogh’s doctor, Paul Gachet

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/19/exclusive-an-unknown-archive-of-treasures-from-van-goghs-doctor-paul-gachet

Art Basel Is Facing an Unexpected Challenge: Itself

https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-acquired-taste-2782205

New documentary goes behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s biggest project

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/19/rashaad-newsome-documentary-assembly

Greece’s Parthenon Just Reclaimed a Missing Piece of Its Ancient Silhouette

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/parthenon-restored-pediment-scaffolding-removed-2782546

The Icelandic Collective Turning Perfume Into a Multisensory Art Form

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fischersund-scent-art-music-collective-2782033

Why Is Everyone Obsessed with UFOs Right Now?

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/ufo-obsession-speilberg-disclosure-days-chloe-wise-karla-knight-eliza-douglas-thandi-loewenson-1234789581/

10 Contemporary Artists Reckoning With Fatherhood

https://hyperallergic.com/10-contemporary-artists-reckoning-with-fatherhood/

Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer

https://hyperallergic.com/georgia-okeeffe-the-wanderer/

Rosalie Favell and the Search for Herself

https://hyperallergic.com/rosalie-favell-and-the-search-for-herself/

Rare Monumental Laocoön Bronze Poised for $4 Million Sale

https://news.artnet.com/market/laocoon-bronze-sothebys-2782104

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Obama Presidential Center opens, offering an art-filled, hopeful view of US history

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/19/obama-presidential-center-chicago-art-filled-campus-museum

New textile museum in Mexico City celebrates Indigenous artistry

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/18/museo-arte-textil-mexico-city-opens

Inside Refik Anadol's Dataland, the world’s first AI art museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/18/refik-anadol-dataland-opens-los-angeles

Pierre Huyghe pushes the boundaries at the Beyeler

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/18/pierre-huyghe-pushes-the-boundaries-at-the-beyeler

Art Basel Qatar to move to Herzog & de Meuron-designed venue

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/18/art-basel-qatar-to-have-herzog-de-meuron-designed-home

Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches Augmented Reality Project On National Mall

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum-launches-augmented-reality-project-national-mall-1234789791/

A New York Judge Gives Dealer David Nahmad 30 Days To Return Nazi-Looted Modigliani Painting

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/judge-david-nahmad-30-days-return-nazi-looted-modigliani-1234789748/

Helen Cammock Video Work Sparks Controversy Regarding Churchill’s Role in 1943 Bengal Famine

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/helen-cammock-video-national-portrait-gallery-churchill-1234789766/

Artist Gavin Snider Accuses Tik Tok-Famous Artist Devon Rodriguez of Stealing Knicks Artworks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/tik-tok-star-artist-devon-rodriguez-steal-knicks-artworks-1234789700/

Heritage Groups Sue Trump Over “Garden of American Heroes"

https://hyperallergic.com/heritage-groups-sue-trump-over-garden-of-american-heroes/

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First Swiss edition of Zero 10, Art Basel’s digital art initiative, explores medium’s ‘historical arc’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/first-swiss-edition-of-zero-10-art-basels-digital-art-initiative-opens

Cao Fei: ‘The scenarios in many of my works have come true later’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/cao-fei-the-scenarios-in-many-of-my-works-have-come-true-later

Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/david-nahmad-given-30-days-return-nazi-looted-modigliani

Mexican authorities urge Sotheby’s to stop sale of two pre-Columbian artefacts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/mexico-opposes-sothebys-auction-pre-columbian-artefacts

‘Everything indicates’ murder of Russian dissident artist in Poland was a political killing

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/russian-dissident-artist-robert-kuzovkov-semyon-skrepetsky-murder-poland

Right-wing politician’s complaint against Masp exhibition dismissed in Brazil

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/17/brasil-complaint-masp-exhibition-la-chola-poblete-censorship-dismissed

Louvre President Tells French Senate Museum Is ‘at the End of Its Rope’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/christophe-leribault-louvre-president-french-senate-warning-1234789495/

Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Detention in First Durational Performance

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-weiwei-jail-performance-manchester-2781925

Menil Collection Launches New Commission Program, with Teresita Fernández as Inaugural Artist

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/menil-collection-teresita-fernandez-commission-1234789631/

US House Appropriations Committee Proposes Cutting Department of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/house-committee-proposes-cutting-arts-grant-1234789505/

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At Art Basel, Everyone Is Playing It Safe, Eying Market Recovery

https://news.artnet.com/market/art-basel-2026-sales-2781637

Exhibition examines new vocabulary that gave same-sex desire a place in art

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/16/exhibition-examines-new-vocabulary-that-gave-same-sex-desire-a-place-in-art

Mauritshuis able to keep its Rembrandts following legal dispute

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/16/mauritshuis-able-to-keep-its-rembrandts-following-legal-dispute

Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the Dust

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/refik-anadol-dataland-review-2-2781630

Whitney Names New Director of Independent Study Program

https://hyperallergic.com/whitney-names-new-director-of-independent-study-program/

New documentary captures two art critics at a turning point

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/16/jerry-saltz-roberta-smith-art-criticism-documentary-tribeca-film-festival

In Our Current Climate Crisis, Angelica Mesiti Asks How Can We Re-Tune Ourselves

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/angelica-mesiti-museum-tinguely-basel-1234789339/

See Obama Center’s Newest Artistic Commissions, Including Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Portrait of the Former First Couple

https://www.artnews.com/list/artnews/news/see-obama-centers-newest-artistic-commissions-including-njideka-akunyili-crosbys-portrait-of-the-former-first-couple-1234789425/

D.C. Preservationists Sue to Halt Trump’s Sculpture ‘Garden of American Heroes’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/preservationists-sue-trumps-scultpure-garden-of-heroes-1234789350/

“Helter Skelter” Can’t Look America in the Eye

https://hyperallergic.com/helter-skelter-cant-look-america-in-the-eye/

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Tea company's collection of South Asian Modern art soars at Christie's London

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/tea-companys-south-asian-collection-soars-at-christies-london

Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/anish-kapoor-just-because-a-thing-is-big-it-doesnt-mean-its-of-any-interest-or-even-good

Russian Strike Damages Ukrainian Monastery, Art Museum

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kyiv-pechersk-lavra-fire-damage-attack-2781338

What’s Going on With the Met’s Odd New Giacometti Show?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/giacometti-in-the-temple-of-dendur-2781077

Ibrahim Mahama: ‘All these things are the stains; they are part of the story’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/ibrahim-mahama-all-these-things-are-the-stains-they-are-part-of-the-story

Shuang Li shows how wild weather mirrors our fractured world

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/shuang-li-shows-how-wild-weather-mirrors-our-fractured-world

The art world honours David Hockney, ‘who flew the flag higher than any other British artist’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/the-art-world-honours-david-hockney-who-flew-the-flag-higher-than-any-other-british-artist

Russian drone attack on Ukraine damages several cultural sites

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/15/russian-drone-attack-on-ukraine-damages-several-cultural-sites

The Obamas Unveil First-Ever Official Dual Portrait

https://hyperallergic.com/the-obamas-unveil-first-ever-official-dual-portrait/

Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser & Wirth for Worldwide Representation

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/leonardo-drew-joins-hauser-and-wirth-1234788673/

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The Art Trade’s Talent Problem

https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jun-15-2781271

It’s a Nightclub, a Book Fair, a Sauna, an Art Show, and More. It’s Basel Social Club!

https://news.artnet.com/market/its-a-nightclub-a-book-fair-a-sauna-an-art-show-and-more-its-basel-social-club-2781196

Artist Kohei Nawa Brings His Pixelated Menagerie to Los Angeles

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kohei-nawa-photon-camp-2780919

Why the Tragicomic Feels Like the Most Honest Aesthetic Now

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/tragicomnic-times-martine-utierrez-peggy-ahwesh-jordan-wolfson-1234789029/

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Almine Rech Announces Collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/almine-rech-now-represents-leonora-carrington-1234789226/

Obama Center, Nayland Blake, Danielle Mckinney

https://hyperallergic.com/obama-center-nayland-blake-danielle-mckinney/

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David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/12/david-hockney-an-artist-of-brio-and-versatility-with-global-recognition-beyond-the-art-world-has-died-aged-88

Duane Michals, Who Expanded Photography’s Boundaries With Élan, Dies at 94

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/photographer-duane-michals-died-obituary-2780563

What Comes After Grow-or-Go? How Goodman Gallery Changed Course

https://news.artnet.com/market/goodman-gallery-business-model-art-market-downturn-2779450

Mauritshuis Museum Can Keep Contested Rembrandts, Fallout From Viral Artist Residency ‘Scandal,’ and More: Morning Links for June 12, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mauritshuis-museum-contested-rembrandts-morning-links-1234789023/

Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/francesca-casadio-director-of-getty-conservation-institute-1234789046/

Cleveland Museum of Art Plans $600 M. Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Museum’s Long-Term Health

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/cleveland-museum-of-art-600-million-fundraising-campaign-1234789009/

Christie’s London Sale Confirms Growing Appetite for South Asian Art

https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-record-sale-south-asian-market-2780652

AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-identifies-lost-cadell-painting-bought-for-100-dollars-1234789159/

Construction of Trump’s Washington, DC arch could put archaeological sites at risk

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/12/trump-washington-dc-arch-construction-archaeological-site-risks

The War Against Imagination

https://hyperallergic.com/the-war-against-imagination/

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Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/11/comment-|-georg-baselitzs-final-exhibition-is-a-warning-that-history-is-repeating-itself

Inside the Artist Residency ‘Scandal’ Dividing the Internet

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/abstract-magazine-summer-residency-2780124

Crimean Museum Struck by Ukrainian Drone, Reportedly Damaging Collection

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sevastopol-art-museum-crimea-ukrainian-drone-strike-1234788875/

How A.I. Helped Identify a Lost Scottish Masterpiece

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-a-i-helped-identify-a-lost-scottish-masterpiece-2780288

Metropolitan Museum of Art Repatriates Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/metropolitan-museum-repatriates-khmer-sculptures-cambodia-1234788927/

Citing Financial Trouble, Charleston’s International African American Museum to Furlough Staff

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/international-african-american-museum-charleston-furloughs-1234788931/

Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture

https://hyperallergic.com/painting-intentionally-defaced-at-museum-of-african-american-culture/

See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/never-before-shown-martin-wong-paintings-wrightwood-1234788750/

Duane Michals, Maker of Enigmatic Sequences of Images That Defied Photography’s Conventions, Dies at 94

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/duane-michals-photographer-dead-1234788848/

Carmen Maria Machado on Power

https://hyperallergic.com/carmen-maria-machado-on-power/

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Former director of Rio’s Museu de Arte Moderna ordered to pay breach-of-contract fine

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/10/museu-arte-moderna-rio-fabio-szwarcwald-fine-breach-contract

Dépendance, Maverick Brussels Gallery, Calls It Quits

https://news.artnet.com/market/dependance-brussels-gallery-closes-2780171

The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/matt-campbell-cambodia-looted-antiquities-2779870

International organisations and Lebanese culture ministry issue warnings amid Israeli capture of Beaufort Castle and strikes on Tyre

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/10/international-organisations-and-lebanese-ministry-of-culture-issue-warnings-amidst-israeli-capture-of-beaufort-castle

Gaudí goes viral: TikTok partners with Sagrada Familia to livestream inauguration of finished tower

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/10/gaudi-goes-viral-tiktok-partners-with-sagrada-familia-to-livestream-content-of-finished-tower

Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum

https://hyperallergic.com/largest-ever-arthur-jafa-survey-coming-to-new-museum/

Who Asked for an AI Art Museum?

https://hyperallergic.com/who-asked-for-an-ai-art-museum/

Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches, Screen Art Film on Legendary Football Star Zinédine Zidane

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/guggenheim-museum-world-cup-matches-livestream-zidane-screening-1234788706/

Pace Plans to Give Up 8,600-Square-Foot London Gallery as It Continues to Cut Costs

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/pace-london-gallery-hanover-square-rent-1234788699/

Valentine Willie, Visionary Advocate of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Dies at 71

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/valentine-willie-visionary-advocate-southeast-asian-contemporary-art-dead-71-1234788721/