Record Sales, Restored Masterpieces, and War’s Shadow

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction Stolen Van Gogh Back on View at Dutch Museum After Dramatic Restoration Cecily Brown Turns Pastoral Visions Into Painterly Chaos in Her London Museum Debut Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena Unesco grants enhanced protection to 39 Lebanese heritage sites as war escalates Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission and New $50,000 Acquisition Fund Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing Trump’s White House Ballroom Plan Stalls as Congress Balks Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence Melvin Edwards, Who Sculpted a New Vocabulary for Political Art, Dies at 88