Repatriation Reckonings and Museums Under Siege

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