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

Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá dismisses longtime artistic director

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/eugenio-viola-museo-arte-moderno-bogota-dismissed-artistic-director

London’s National Gallery to Slash Staff as $11.2 Million Deficit Forces ‘Strategic Reset’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/london-national-gallery-staff-cuts-2745442

Louvre Rocked by Arrests in $11.8 Million Ticket Fraud Investigation

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-ticket-fraud-2745436

Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/tracey-emin-artist-interview-i-have-done-more-in-my-last-five-years-than-in-the-whole-rest-of-my-life

Texas University Cancels Exhibition Critical of ICE

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cvad-unt-canceled-exhibition-criticizing-ice-2745556

The Big Review | Monuments, The Geffen Contemporary at Moca and The Brick, Los Angeles ★★★★★

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/the-big-review-monuments-moca-los-angeles-the-brick

New IMLS Guidelines Echo Trump’s Vision for American Culture

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/imls-trump-vision-grant-guidelines-2745461

See you, Searle: Guardian chief art critic bows out after 30 years

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/13/see-you-searle-guardian-chief-art-critic-bows-out-after-30-years

Queer Arab Artists on Their Own Terms

https://hyperallergic.com/queer-arab-artists-on-their-own-terms/

Trump Wants the National Portrait Gallery to Commission a New Portrait

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trump-wants-national-portrait-gallery-new-portrait-1234773409/