Markets Ablaze, Museums Under Fire

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Roy Lichtenstein’s Market Is on Fire. Here Comes a Whitney Show With Mega Loans https://news.artnet.com/market/roy-lichtensteins-whitney-museum-loans-2788895 Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/24/unesco-adds-ancient-greek-city-tauric-chersonese-in-crimea-to-world-heritage-in-danger-list President Trump Orders Signs Installed Outside Smithsonian Warning Public of ‘Inaccurate Information’ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/trump-executive-order-smithsonian-signs-inaccurate-information-1234793483/ Nvidia CEO Pours $75M Into San Francisco Art Campus https://hyperallergic.com/nvidia-ceo-pours-75m-into-san-francisco-art-campus/ Venice Biennale President Calls EU Withdrawal of Funding Over Russia ‘Entirely Political, Certainly Not Legal’ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pietrangelo-buttafuoco-eu-grant-withdrawal-venice-biennale-1234793350/ Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Reveals Inaugural Film Program, Including Busby Berkeley Fantasias and Avant-Garde Shorts https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lucas-museum-film-program-1234793351/ Artist Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/p-and-d-artist-joyce-kosloff-is-girl-lydia-popova-1234793456/ Sable Elyse Smith Reveals the Shapes of State Violence https://hyperallergic.com/sable-elyse-smith-reveals-the-shapes-of-state-violence/ Emory Douglas’s Lifetime of Revolutionary Art https://hyperallergic.com/emory-douglass-lifetime-of-revolutionary-art/ Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander in September https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/faro-santander-september-2026-opening-gelman-collection-1234793355/