Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Hot Lots and Top Flops: 6 Surprises at the November Auctions: https://news.artnet.com/market/hot-lots-top-flops-november-day-sales-2025-2718580 - Jacob Hashimoto’s Sculptural Installations Are a Riot of Color and Form: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jacob-hashimoto-miles-mcenery-gallery-2717777 - How Has the Temple of Venus Weathered Millennia? A New Study Has Answers: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/temple-of-venus-roman-engineering-materials-study-2718960 - The Roosevelt Portrait That Trump and Mamdani Somehow Bonded Over: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-mamdani-roosevelt-salisbury-portrait-2718933 - Lost Michelangelo Study for the Sistine Chapel Bound for $2 Million Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/michelangelo-sistine-chapel-study-christies-2718805 - Lucy Sparrow’s U.S. Museum Debut Is a Felted Ode to 1980s Supermarkets: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lucy-sparrow-museum-crystal-bridges-momentary-2718745 - Can a New Director Steady the Embattled Philadelphia Art Museum?: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/philadelphia-art-museum-new-director-2718492 - Nightmare Before Christmas? Brueghel-Inspired A.I. Holiday Mural Shocks London Suburb: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-brueghel-santa-scene-removed-2718499 - Trump’s Kennedy Center Is Hosting Events for His Allies at Deep Discounts: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-arts-impact-2639197 - 19th-Century Sculpture of Scandal-Plagued Heiress Barred From Leaving the U.K.: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/triqueti-campbell-sculpture-export-bar-2718656 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - Philadelphia Art Museum accuses fired director of ‘theft’ in court filing: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/philadelphia-art-museum-filing-sasha-suda-lawsuit-theft - Stephen Friedman to close New York gallery, two years after opening the Tribeca space: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/stephen-friedman-to-close-new-york-gallery-two-years-after-opening-the-tribeca-space - Sculptor Alma Allen officially selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/alma-allen-officially-representing-us-venice-biennale-2026 - France's Bonnat-Helleu museum reopens after 14-year renovation with new discoveries and 2,500 loans from the Louvre: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/bayonnes-refreshed-bonnat-helleu-museum-reopens-after-major-renovation - Plans for Trump Tower Belgrade ‘breach multiple laws’, architects’ union claims: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/plans-for-trump-tower-belgrade-breach-multiple-laws-architects-union-claims - Politician demands end to Grand Egyptian Museum ticketing system that leaves locals in ‘secondary category’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/politician-demands-end-to-grand-egyptian-museum-ticketing-system-that-leaves-locals-in-secondary-category - Queer sexuality in Islamic art explored in Norway exhibition: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/queer-sexuality-in-islamic-art-explored-in-norway-exhibition - Vast pre-Maya earthwork in Mexico is a map of the cosmos, archaeological analysis suggests: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/pre-maya-earthwork-mexico-cosmogram-study - Canadian government commits to enacting artist’s resale rights law: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/24/canadian-budget-resale-royalties-artists-law ARTnews.com - New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Transition Committee: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/zohran-mamdani-names-arts-culture-transition-committee-1234763481/ - Momentum Builds at Abu Dhabi Art Ahead of the Frieze Takeover, but Sales Still Lag Behind the Buzz: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/abu-dhabi-art-2025-scene-frieze-sales-1234763435/ - A Drawing Said to Be by Michelangelo Will Go to Auction: https://www.a