April 9, 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 The art of technology jostles for position in venues both new and historic by Dale Berning Sawa for The Art Newspaper. Digital and time-based art is pushing museums to rethink conservation, storage, and collecting priorities.
The Art Newspaper
Riah Pryor, Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery
Gareth Harris, London’s V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects
EDITOR’S PICK - Dale Berning Sawa, The art of technology jostles for position in venues both new and historic: New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art made with recent technologies
Anna Brady, Robilant and Voena gallery founders part ways to start separate ventures with their children
Helen Stoilas, The artist who blocked an Ice projectile with her drawing board during protests
Sarvy Geranpayeh, A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists
Anna Brady, Robilant and Voena gallery founders part ways to start separate ventures with their children
Ben Luke, Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor
Dale Bernings Sawa, Philadelphia art museums celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with blockbuster two-venue show
Gareth Harris, Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art
Gareth Harris, April Book Bag: from a Matthew Wong catalogue to a history of dogs in art
Artforum
Nate Lippens, Fecal Matters: On Derek McCormack’s country-fried coprophilia
From the Editors, The Hole Gallery Sued Over Unpaid Back Rent
From the Editors, Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Welcome Seoul Outpost in June
From the Editors, Kengo Kuma Architects Chosen to Design New Wing of London’s National Gallery
From the Editors, Knight Foundation Names 2026 Recipients of Its $50,000 Art + Tech Fellowships
Artnet
Ben Davis, Are We Too Reverent of Marcel Duchamp?
Katie White, Artist Charles Ross Spent 50 Years Trying to Bring the Stars Down to Earth. At 88, Has He Done It?
Min Chen, The Art of ‘The Christophers’: How the Film Created an Artist’s Fabled Oeuvre
Vittoria Benzine, Inez & Vinoodh Handpick 6 Defining Works From Their New Retrospective
Annikka Olsen, America’s First Black Professional Artist Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
Vittoria Benzine, 154-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Debuts in the U.K.—But Its Species Remains a Mystery
Richard Whiddington, Radiohead Hits the Road With a Haunting Immersive Installation
Vittoria Benzine, Artemisia Gentileschi Masterpiece Goes to Auction—Without Its Face
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Proposed Loan of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Sparks Clash Between Spanish Authorities
ARTnews
Brian Boucher, In Chicago for Expo? Don’t Miss These 6 Standout Shows at the City’s Museums and Galleries
Anne Doran, Archaeologists Uncover a 2,000-Year-Old Hillfort in Estonia
Maximilíano Durón, 500-Plus And Just Like That… Items Head to Online Auction
Alex Greenberger, Do We Have Duchamp All Wrong? A Brilliant MoMA Retrospective Reintroduces One of Modernism’s Greats
Tessa Solomon, Siri Aurdal, Artist Who Elevated Industrial Materials Into Visions of Shared Humanity, Dies at 88
Anne Doran, Bronze Age Metal-Working Center Unearthed Near China’s Yangtse River
Andy Battaglia, See Comedian Pete Davidson’s Art-Filled New York Home for Sale for $2 M.
Howard Halle, A Duchamp Retrospective at MoMA Presents an Artist Who Challenged the Very Definition of Art
Brian Boucher, Outgoing MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn Offers the Consummate Insider’s Guide to the Windy City
Harrison Jacobs, Spain’s Culture Minister Rejects Guernica Transfer, but Basque Leaders Refuse to Take No for an Answer
George Nelson, 70 of Stephen Curry’s Game-Worn NBA Sneakers to Be Sold at Sotheby’s, Including a Pair of Nike Kobe 6 Protro ‘Mambacita’
Maximilíano Durón, With a New Director, US Latinx Art Forum Plots Its Future
Brian Boucher, Can a Slimmed-Down Expo Chicago Still Throw Its Weight Around?
ArtReview
Jenny Wu, Notes from New York: Rotting Meat
Ophelia Lai, Sasaoka Yuriko’s Violent Puppeteering
The Brooklyn Rail
Douglas Kearney, Douglas Kearney
Bob Perelman and Rae Armantrout, Francie Shaw with Bob Perelman and Rae Armantrout
Marcella Durand and Suzan Frecon, from The Light Factory
Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein
Diana Khoi Nguyen, from “The American Archivist”
Kostas Anagnopoulos and Keiko Narahashi, Kostas Anagnopoulos and Keiko Narahashi
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Financial Times
Aimee Farrell, Simone Bodmer-Turner grew an all-white line of tableware
Jill Krasny, The roaring 2020s? Art deco gets a twist
Jackie Wullschläger, Clair-obscur — visions of light amid the darkness at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce
Frieze
Tom Denman, Angela de la Cruz Breaks the Frame
Krzysztof Kościuczuk, Can Video Art Rewire South Korea’s Global Image?
Hyperallergic
John Yau, Jasper Johns Keeps Looking
Bella Bromberg, One Last Chance to See Dürer’s Monumental Print in NYC
Cecily Parks, Dice Are 6,000 Years Older Than Previously Believed, Study Says
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Nathan Farb, Thomas Zipp, and Christine Ruiz-Picasso
Rhea Nayyar, Rare Wifredo Lam Portrait Lands in New York
Naib Mian, Saad Khan Archives the Detritus of Censored Culture
Max Blue, Trustees of Renowned West Coast Artist Residency Visited Epstein’s Island
The New York Times
Holland Cotter, And the Most Influential Modern Artist Is …
Alissa Wilkinson, ‘The Christophers’ Review: Fine Art, Frayed Artists
Observer
Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Bellezza e Bruttezza” at Bozar in Brussels
Nathan Smith, Observer’s Must-Read Memoirs and Best Biographies of 2026
Elisa Carollo, The Exhibitions Not to Miss During EXPO CHICAGO
Jordan Riefe, Cy Twombly’s Drawing and Discovery
Jordan Riefe, The World as Seen Through Yorgos Lanthimos’s Lens
Puck
Marion Maneker, The Art Market’s Feminine Mystique
T Magazine
Laura May Todd, Popeye the Art Icon
Richard Sandomir, Nathan Farb, 85, Dies; Photographed Hippies, Siberians and Mountains
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Margot Samel Gallery reaches payment deal in Tribeca eviction case
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Settlement in Eviction Case Against Margot Samel Gallery
Adam Schrader, Sotheby’s Modigliani dispute ends quietly without court ruling
Adam Schrader, Mickalene Thomas seeks dismissal of suit brought by ex-fiancée Racquel Chevremont
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Mickalene Thomas Motion to Dismiss Chevremont Lawsuit
Adam Schrader, Norton Museum pushes to throw out phone provider’s countersuit
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Norton Museum answers counterclaim in dispute with phone provider
Adam Schrader, Museum of Sex denies harassment, retaliation claims in lawsuit response
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Museum of Sex Lawsuit Response
Adam Schrader, Louisiana investigators arrest two men who allegedly stole painting
Adam Schrader, Saudi Arabia opens Black Gold Museum, dedicated to oil, amid war disruptions
The Wall Street Journal
Kelly Crow, At 94, Gerhard Richter Is About to Give the Art Market a Massive Stress Test
Eric Gibson, ‘Noguchi’s New York’ Review: Sculpting Urban Spaces
Whitehot
Emma Cieslik, Critiquing body fascism: A conversation with Stephanie Mercedes about their show Inútil
Ute Änne Thon, Behind All Beautiful Things Lies Suffering: A Conversation with Oscar Murillo
Ruichao Jiang, Pushing Open the Door of Yesterday: Xiangjie Rebecca Wu at LATITUDE Gallery
Ruben Natal San-Miguel, Mariah Robertson stands out as one of the most inventive and revolutionary photographers of them all.
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