April 10, 2026
Your morning brew of art world media
Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Comment | The market grew in 2025 but ‘interest in art is waning’ by Melanie Gerlis for The Art Newspaper. Melanie Gerlis shares her thoughts on cautious optimism in the face of art market uncertainties.
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Ania Szremski, Whitney Biennial 2026
Art in America
Terry Nguyen, Robert Moses and Isamu Noguchi Battled for Decades—About Playgrounds
Emily Watlington and Alex Greenberger, Everyone’s Talking About Duchamp. These 5 Artists Are the Ones to Listen To.
The Art Newspaper
Benjamin Sutton, Expo Chicago’s local focus pays off as Midwestern collectors, institutions buoy sales
EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, Comment | The market grew in 2025 but ‘interest in art is waning’: Amid global macro shocks and changes in consumer taste, there are signs of future resilience
Lauren Stroh, Louisiana State Museum reaccreditation decision delayed until June 2027
Elena Goukassian, Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum
Artforum
Aaina Bhargava, K-POP, FUNGI, AND TERRACE RAVES: Art Basel Hong Kong 2026
Massimiliano Gioni, Massimiliano Gioni on key works in “New Humans: Memories of the Future” at the New Museum
From the Editors, Getty Center to Close in Los Angeles as Major Renovation Looms
From the Editors, The Met Hires Star Photography Curator for the Museum’s New Wing
From the Editors, Hirshhorn Director Melissa Chiu Departs to Lead Guggenheim Museum
From the Editors, Dartmouth Students Renew Efforts to Rename Leon Black–Funded Arts Center
Artnet
Sarah Cascone, Why Was Sarah Miriam Peale, Pioneering Member of America’s First Art Dynasty, Left Behind?
Min Chen, The Art of ‘The Christophers’: How the Film Created an Artist’s Fabled Oeuvre
Vittoria Benzine, An Intimate Portrait of Basquiat’s Early Life Returns to Brooklyn
Richard Whiddington, Colosseum Facelift Restores Ancient Southern Entrance to Its Former Glory
Sarah Cascone, NASA’s Artemis II Returns to the Moon—and Captures a Powerful New Image of Earth
Vivienne Chow, Seoul Gets an Intriguing New Art Fair—Plus, a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
Eileen Kinsella, Marian Goodman’s Prized $65 Million Collection Lands at Christie’s
Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, The Philosopher Who Predicted Our Post-Literate Art Moment
Richard Whiddington, You Can Become an Artwork at This New York Museum—Thanks to Piero Manzoni
ARTnews
Brian Boucher, Dealers Are Doing Brisk Business at a Smaller and ‘More Intentional’ Expo Chicago
Leigh Anne Miller, After a Decade of Delays, a 5th-Century Church in Glasgow Will Become a Museum
Maximilíano Durón, LA’s Getty Center to Close for Renovations Beginning in 2027
Daniel Cassady, A Piece of the Eiffel Tower Is Heading to Auction
Harrison Jacobs, Portland Museum of Art Buys New Building For $14 M., Freeing Up Space For Exhibitions
Tessa Solomon, Greece Introduces New Law to Combat Art Forgery and Vandalism
Andy Battaglia, Proposed Restitution Law in France Advances in National Assembly
Daniel Cassady, Works from Marian Goodman’s Collection to Anchor Christie’s May Sales
Alex Greenberger, Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu Leaves for Guggenheim, Another Smithsonian Departure
Leigh Anne Miller, See Inside the Long-Lost Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton Album Full of WW2-Era Photographs
Alex Greenberger, David Zwirner to Exhibit ‘The Great Unseen Collection’ in New York
Maximilíano Durón, The Met Hires MoMA’s Rising Star Photography Curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo
ArtReview
Michelle Santiago Cortés, The Robots Were Never the Problem
From the Editors, ArtReview Podcast | Episode 5: Rene Matić
The Brooklyn Rail
Raphy Sarkissian, Hughie O’Donohue: Time and the Architecture of Memory
Lyle Rexer, Robert Gober: Plein Air
Noa Wynn, Sam Jablon: Luck or Else
Lyle Rexer, Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets
Ekin Erkan, Brandon Ndife and Louis Osmosis: On the Swing of Norms
Financial Times
Victoria Woodcock, Heinz Mack is 95. He’s still the hero of Zero
Charlotte Jansen, Sang Woo Kim spent a lifetime being stared at. Now he feels seen
Frieze
Hung Duong, What Oototol’s Art Reveals about Indonesian History
The Guardian
Kim Willsher, Who was Hilma? Af Klint exhibition to highlight exclusion of women from abstract art
Hyperallergic
Valentina Di Liscia, Art Movements: Meet The Met’s New Photography Curator
Rhea Nayyar, Guggenheim Museum Appoints Melissa Chiu as Next Director
Tara Sansone, What If Every City Provided Artists With Free Supplies?
Paige Phillips, How to Extract the Story of Appalachia
Natalie Haddad, It’s Gabriele Münter’s World, We’re Just Living in It
John Yau, David Novros’s Portable Murals
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Required Reading
The New York Times
Zachary Small, In Museum Shake-Up, Leader Exits Smithsonian to Run Guggenheim
Matt Stevens, Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations
The New Yorker
From the Editors, Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order
Observer
Elisa Carollo, What’s Behind the Million-Dollar Pikachu Cards and Record-Breaking Anime Auctions
Elisa Carollo, How Two Hong Kong Collectors Are Choosing Public Engagement Over Possession
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Retired curator talks curating an exhibition about his own curating
The Washington Post
Vanessa H. Larson, Women are trailblazers in abstract art. These 6 works show their vision.
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