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

Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm for the Scars of European Conquest

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/sponsored-content/museum-rietberg-paradise-colonial-photography-contemporary-1234785044/

Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/09/artists-world-cup-protest-posters-anti-ice

Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/three-men-convicted-museum-heist-ancient-romanian-gold-1234788616/

My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum

https://hyperallergic.com/my-queasy-forest-scented-stroll-through-las-new-ai-art-museum/

Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/16th-gwangju-biennial-artist-list-matthew-barney-tehching-hsieh-nina-canell-1234788663/

SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference

https://hyperallergic.com/saic-puts-professor-on-leave-after-palestine-reference/

How the Pace Layoffs Went Down—And What Comes Next

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/how-the-pace-layoffs-went-down-1234788685/

MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/first-survey-of-piet-mondrian-s-new-york-paintings-moma-1234788642/

Templon Gallery Closes New York Outpost, Tone Hansen to Lead Moderna Museet: Morning Links for June 9, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/templon-gallery-closes-new-york-outpost-tone-hansen-to-lead-moderna-museet-morning-links-for-june-9-2026-1234788592/

Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves

https://hyperallergic.com/nayland-blake-doesnt-believe-in-fixed-selves/

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Mexico City museum with world's richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/08/museo-dolores-olmedo-reopens-mexico-city-diego-rivera-frida-kahlo

New digital archive reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts for the first time in four centuries

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/08/new-digital-archive-reconstructs-leonardo-da-vinci-manuscripts

Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/crystal-bridges-museum-moshe-safdie-expansion-american-art-1234788435/

Nearly Half of Mid-Career Women Are Thinking of Leaving the Art World: Report

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hardwiring-change-report-2026-2779250

Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/alma-allen-david-resnicow-venice-biennale-us-pavilion-1234788547/

A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

https://hyperallergic.com/a-first-look-at-the-art-in-the-new-obama-presidential-center/

Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name

https://hyperallergic.com/winning-penn-station-redesign-features-trumps-name/

Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike

https://hyperallergic.com/italian-arts-workers-announce-nationwide-strike/

Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anti-trump-street-art-collective-vjaybombs-goes-viral-as-la-becomes-a-canvas-of-protest-1234788515/

Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chairman-us-commission-fine-arts-st-petersburg-conference-1234788498/

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Leonardo’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardotheka-da-vinci-codex-2779022

Is the Mega-Gallery Model Collapsing?

https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/art-market-minute-jun-8-2779180

Jurassic Art—5 Artworks That Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dinosaurs-gallery-network-2761041

As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/america-250-donald-trump-smithsonian-mfa-boston-museums-1234788176/

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What Makes a Gallery Weekend Good?

https://news.artnet.com/market/london-gallery-weekend-2026-2779093

Celia Paul, Edward Hopper, Saif Azzuz

https://hyperallergic.com/celia-paul-edward-hopper-saif-azzuz/

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Artists Threaten Lawsuit as Venice Biennale Award Crisis Deepens

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-threaten-lawsuit-venice-biennale-awards-2778696

More than 100 artists threaten legal action against Venice Biennale

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/04/more-than-100-artists-threaten-legal-action-against-venice-biennale

Mega Gallery Pace is Dropping Some 50 Artists, 50 Staff in ‘Model Correction’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/pace-gallery-layoffs-artist-roster-cuts-1234788318/

Pace Cuts 50 Workers and 50 Artists, Citing a “Broken” Gallery Model

https://hyperallergic.com/pace-cuts-50-workers-and-50-artists-citing-a-broken-gallery-model/

Serial Museum Leader Philippe Vergne Named Artistic Director of the Bass in Miami Beach

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/philippe-vergne-curator-bass-museum-miami-2778742

Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kulapat-yantrasast-artistic-director-2027-bukhara-biennial-1234788298/

Art Movements: Meet MoMA's New Photo Chief

https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-meet-momas-new-photo-chief/

Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-director-dies-at-56-1234788359/

A New French Study Says It Is Safe to Ship the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/french-study-says-safe-ship-bayeux-tapestry-british-museum-1234788355/

The Best Part of “Moss & Freud” Is When It’s Over

https://hyperallergic.com/the-best-part-of-moss-and-freud-is-when-its-over/

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Pace Gallery Downsizes, Cutting Artists and Staff

https://news.artnet.com/market/pace-gallery-downsizes-cutting-artists-and-staff-2778584

Crystal Bridges’s New Expansion Makes Room for More of Its Story

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art-expansion-2777902

MoMA Names Makeda Best as Photography Curator

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/makeda-best-photo-moma-2778344

JR's wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/03/jrs-wrapped-parisian-bridge-installation-damaged-in-storm

Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/03/call-my-agent-why-artist-management-companies-are-making-a-comeback

Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/03/venice-verdicts-art-world-figures-give-their-thoughts-on-the-2026-biennale

Louvre Heist Investigation Reaches Belgium

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-heist-investigation-belgium-suspects-2778384

Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-threaten-sue-venice-biennale-organizers-awards-1234788244/

New Trump Rule Could Cut Enrollment at Nearly Half of Arts MA Programs

https://hyperallergic.com/new-trump-rule-could-cut-enrollment-at-nearly-half-of-arts-ma-programs/

How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/olga-frobe-kapteyn-aby-warburg-carl-jung-1234787853/

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Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/02/artist-and-satirist-hilde-lynn-helphenstein-has-died-at-age-40-in-sao-paulo-local-media-reports

Pussy Riot Turns Its Venice Biennale Protest Into a Music Video

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pussy-riot-debut-album-cyka-2778042

Comment | Furor over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/02/colourised-ansel-adams-photo-artificial-intelligence-press-any-key-to-continue

Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its ‘Exclusive’ Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/art-basel-reveals-galleries-artists-selected-exclusive-1234788177/

Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/higher-ed-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-arts-education-1234788169/

French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein & Co. Gallery Can Proceed

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/claude-monet-heirs-wildenstein-gallery-lawsuit-1234788135/

Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/muralist-wyland-vara-lawsuit-dallas-whale-mural-fifa-1234788123/

Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lucian-freud-painting-denied-authenticated-public-display-1234788120/

Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97

https://hyperallergic.com/artist-julio-le-parc-maestro-of-light-movement-and-defiance-dies-at-97/

Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/israeli-airstrikes-hit-900-year-old-crusader-castle-in-lebanon-1234788131/

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Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/blue-chip-gets-a-boost-but-edgier-art-remains-in-the-doldrums

British Museum director responds to pushback after Jewish Culture Month event postponed

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/british-museum-director-responds-to-pushback-after-jewish-culture-month-event-postponed

Mondrian Estate Teams With One-Time NFT Sensation Doodles

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mondrian-estate-doodles-nft-2777701

Inside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's major expansion

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/crystal-bridges-opens-expansion-art-bridges-wellness-programme

A Dystopian ‘Black Mirror’ Experience Lands at the Shed

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/black-mirror-immersive-experience-shed-2777850

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Jerry Gogosian Satirist, Found Dead in São Paulo

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jerry-gogosian-hilde-lynn-helphenstein-dead-2777922

Pioneering Kinetic Artist Julio Le Parc Dies at 97—and More Art Industry News

https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-june-1-2777689

Chichén Itzá reopens after dispute with vendors that led to 13-day closure

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/chichen-itza-reopens-vendor-dispute

What a $181 Million Pollock Doesn’t Say

https://hyperallergic.com/what-a-181-million-pollock-doesnt-say/

Chinese Archaeologist Liu Bin, Known for Work at Liangzhu Site, Pleads Guilty to Corruption and Misappropriation Charges

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chinese-archaeologist-liu-bin-pleads-guilty-corruption-1234788076/

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The 2026 Whitney Biennial in five key themes

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/2026-whitney-biennial-exhibition-review-five-themes

British Museum Evacuated After Suspicious Device Found in Restroom

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-evacuated-suspicious-device-security-alert-1234787980/

As Full-Time Art Critics All But Disappear, What Can We Learn From the Retiring Generation?

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/christopher-knight-roberta-smith-peter-schjeldahl-critis-retire-1234787590/

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John M Armleder Reframes Centuries of Art History at MAH Geneva

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/john-m-armleder-mah-geneva-2776555

Julio Le Parc, Pioneer of Kinetic Art and Venice Biennale Prize Winner, Dies at 97

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/julio-le-parc-dead-97-kinetic-art-venice-biennale-tate-modern-1234787972/

In Minor Keys, Khaled Sabsabi, Louvre Heist Film

https://hyperallergic.com/in-minor-keys-khaled-sabsabi-louvre-heist-film/