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Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Art Institute of Chicago restitutes Metzinger painting sold in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/22/art-institute-chicago-restitute-jean-metzinger-painting-emanuel-lewenstein-heirs Tyler Mitchell Wins $250,000 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum h...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. The Big Review: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ★★★½ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/21/lucas-museum-narrative-art-los-angeles-big-review Rising costs force museums across North America to rethink climate control guidelines https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/21/museums-acro...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/21/comment-museums-audio-video-exhibition-spaces Perfect posture? MoMA exhibition explores perspectives on body politics in public spaces https://www.theartne...

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. Documenta 16 Curator Naomi Beckwith Says Some Artists Declined to Participate Due to Germany’s Stance on Gaza https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/documenta-16-artists-declined-participate-naomi-beckwith-1234798915/ Head of Brussels Government Seeks to Oust Kanal-Centre Pompidou Dire...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Malba picks architect for expansion that will double its exhibition space https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/17/malba-museum-buenos-aires-frida-escobedo-architect-expansion Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to open new venue for contemporary art https://www.theartnewspap...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Russia’s revered ‘Trinity’ icon reportedly damaged after climate-control system breaks down https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/16/russias-revered-trinity-icon-being-assessed-after-climate-control-system-breaks-down Bolstered by New Laws, Lawsuits in Los Angeles Renew Bids for Res...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/15/metropolitan-museum-groundbreaking-550m-tang-wing-modern-contemporary-art A biting satire of the art world’s transactional wokeness https://www.theartn...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Major Swiss museum acquisition proves far larger after extra works revealed in donor’s unopened portfolios https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/major-swiss-museum-acquisition-proves-far-larger-after-extra-works-revealed-in-donors-unopened-portfolios Pro-Palestine Activists Prote...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Trump Demands ‘Strange Modernist’ Sculpture Be Replaced by George Washington Statue https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trump-demands-sculpture-replaced-george-washington-1234798088/ Good Muslim Artist, Bad Muslim Artist https://hyperallergic.com/good-muslim-artist-bad-muslim-artist...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. How Janine Antoni Simultaneously Disturbs and Delights https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/janine-antoni-bahamian-american-icons-sculptor-lick-lather-1234797619/ 5 Books on Dena Yago’s Shelf https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/columns/dena-yago-books-that-figures-e...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it? https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/review-1-gbp-a-minute-is-the-british-museums-bayeux-tapestry-exhibition-worth-it ‘Rembrandt’s DNA would be the Holy Grail’: new research samples bacteria on...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/portrait-of-bayeux-tapestry-exhibition-sponsor-goes-on-view-at-british-museum-amid-scrutiny-over-ties-to-idf Epstein files reading ro...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy win art world’s ‘Nobel Prizes’ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/09/artists-jenny-holzer-and-andy-goldsworthy-among-winners-of-2026-praemium-imperiale-awards After a Turbulent Decade and Multiple Delays, Brussels’s Kanal-Centre Pompidou Will Ope...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. An exhibition imagines Emmett Till’s life if it hadn’t been brutally cut short https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/09/if-emmett-till-lived-exhibition-preview-museum-contemporary-photography-chicago Two Renoir paintings worth €9m stolen from Renoir Museum in France https://www.thea...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos donates 51 contemporary works to four museums in Greece and Scotland https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/07/collector-dimitris-daskalopoulos-donates-51-contemporary-works-to-four-museums-in-greece-and-scotland Bank opens museum in Spanish city of S...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. A big B’Day gift: Beyoncé gives $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/07/a-big-bday-gift-beyonce-gives-2m-to-the-studio-museum-in-harlem $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art lifts off at long last https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/07/lucas-muse...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Beyoncé Gives the Studio Museum in Harlem a $2 M. Gift on Her Birthday https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beyonce-gives-studio-museum-harlem-gift-her-own-birthday-1234797300/ Vietnam Veterans File Restraining Order to Block Progress on Trump’s 250-Foot Triumphal Arch https://www.ar...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. ‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/04/attribution-decay-artificial-intelligence-research-zheng-dai-david-gifford-mit ‘Putin didn’t win; art won’: Venice Biennale president defends decision to allo...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Answering to the AfD? What Germany’s regional elections could mean for arts funding https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/03/answering-to-the-afd-what-germanys-regional-elections-could-mean-for-arts-funding Amid volatile Korean economy, galleries at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf opt for cau...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Leader of the Art Gallery of Ontario will step down after a decade at the helm https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/02/art-gallery-ontario-director-stephan-jost-stepping-down Paris prosecutors seek trial for Giuliano Ruffini over allegedly forged Old Master paintings https://www.th...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego faces financial and leadership crisis https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/01/institute-contemporary-art-san-diego-financial-leadership-crisis-layoffs The art world's billionaire problem is getting worse https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/metropolitan-museum-costume-institute-john-galliano-exhibition-cancelled London Science Museum's sponsorship deal with BP ends after almo...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. 84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/fall-art-preview-1234792473/ Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen from Vienna museum in brazen daytime heist https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/30/queen-egypt-diamond-platinum-...

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-john-galliano-controversy-arne-glimcher-1234796260/