Restitution Reckonings and Museums on the Brink

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/judge-rules-dealer-david-nahmad-must-return-nazi-looted-modigliani Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/depaul-art-museum-closure-collection-limbo Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/06/pressures-squeezing-gallery-sector-the-hole-new-york-los-angeles Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds https://hyperallergic.com/paul-klee-other-possible-worlds-jewish-museum/ Thomas Zipp, Visionary Installation Artist With a Punk Sensibility, Has Died https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/thomas-zipp-artist-dead-1234780157/ Ex-Staffers Say the US Holocaust Museum Altered Website and Canceled Programming to Avoid Angering Trump https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-holocaust-museum-canceled-programming-angering-trump-1234780080/ The New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Reckons With Human-Machine Relations in the Workplace https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/new-museum-new-humans-labor-humans-machines-1234780038/ Israel’s Venice Biennale Artist Responds to Calls for Exclusion: ‘I Do Not Support Cultural Boycotts’ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/israel-venice-biennale-artist-responds-cultural-boycott-1234780053/ How Josh Kline Wrote the Essay That the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/josh-kline-new-york-art-world-viral-essay-interview-1234780103/ Famed Gelman Collection Will Return to Mexico by 2028 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gelman-collection-returns-mexico-2028-1234780114/