Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Matisse Painted Her. History Forgot Her. Now Olga Meerson Is Stepping Back Into Frame: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/olga-meerson-matisse-muse-schlossmuseum-murnau-2707301 - Scholars Thought Plague Emptied This Ancient Egyptian City. New Research Says Otherwise: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/akhetaten-plague-theory-busted-study-2707427 - It’s Gala Season in New York’s Art World. Artists Feel Urgency to Give: https://news.artnet.com/market/its-gala-season-in-new-yorks-art-world-artists-feel-urgency-to-give-2706650 - New Art Fair Alternative Plans 2026 Launch in Taipei, Hong Kong: https://news.artnet.com/market/new-art-fair-alternative-plans-2026-launch-in-taipei-hong-kong-2705720 - A Junkanoo Spirit Is Carrying The Bahamas to Venice: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bahamas-fair-venice-biennale-pavilion-2704959 - A Rousing Outsider Art Fashion Show Hits New York: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/creative-growth-stella-ishii-outsider-art-fashion-show-2707120 - Move Over, Banana: Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Is Coming to Auction: https://news.artnet.com/market/maurizio-cattelan-america-gold-toilet-auction-2707156 - This Hidden Clue May Have Just Cracked the Code to the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ Sculpture: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cia-kryptos-sculpture-code-auction-2677451 - Protestors Who Threw Paint at Stonehenge Acquitted: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/climate-protestors-charged-stonehenge-2571877 - Never-Before-Seen King Tut Treasures Go On View at Grand Egyptian Museum: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/grand-egyptian-museum-king-tut-highlights-2706526 The Art Newspaper - International art news and events - US climate activist gets 18-month prison sentence for splashing paint on Degas sculpture’s case: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/climate-activist-timothy-martin-national-gallery-art-degas-sculpture-sentenced - London gallery Project Native Informant closes after 12 years, citing 'volatile and unsustainable environment': https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/east-london-gallery-project-native-informant-closes-after-12-years - Indonesia's 'scarred' art scene regroups following nationwide protests: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/indonesias-art-scene-regroups-following-nationwide-protests - Protecting North America’s oldest cave art after an historic flood raised new alarms: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/protecting-north-america-oldest-cave-art-after-historic-flood - Must-see Van Gogh exhibitions in 2026: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/must-see-van-gogh-exhibitions-in-2026 - How an old conservation technique involving salts is winning over museums: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/old-conservation-technique-salts-winning-over-museums - Catch of the day: Winslow Homer’s delicate watercolours get very rare outing in Boston: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/winslow-homer-watercolours-exhibition-boston - Trajan’s force: Houston exhibition to explore Ancient Rome’s imperial peak: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/trajan-houston-exhibitionancient-rome-imperial-peak - British Council hopes to transfer art collection to UK government amid ‘real financial peril’: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/british-council-hopes-to-transfer-art-collection-to-uk-government-amid-real-financial-peril - Gauguin ‘fake’ is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s head piece—podcast: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/gauguin-fake-is-real-mrinalini-mukherjee-and-her-circle-franz-xaver-messerschmidts-head-piecepodcast - New book highlights Vorticism’s toxic side—and puts its women pioneers back in the frame: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/new-book-vorticism-toxic-side-women-pioneers-back-in-frame - Comment | What the art market doesn’t allow, branded content