Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is When galleries go bust, artists and collectors can struggle to recover their works—here, legal experts offer advice by Anna Brady for The Art Newspaper. Artists and collectors risk losing consigned works when galleries fail or go bankrupt, making formal consignment agreements and clear ownership records essential protection.
The Art Newspaper
EDITOR’S PICK - Anna Brady, When galleries go bust, artists and collectors can struggle to recover their works—here, legal experts offer advice: Without proper written agreements, consigners sometimes find themselves in a protracted and costly process
From the Editors, AMTD appoints Benjamin Sutton as Global Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper
Elena Goukassian, Smithsonian races to finalise site for national Latino museum
Hadani Ditmars, More than 100 works from Canada’s federal collection of Indigenous art are ‘unaccounted for’
Artforum
Mateus Nunes, Chromatic Relations: Peter Bradley Takes a Chance on Color
Madeleine Cravens, Pleasantries from the Potato Museum
From the Editors, Mariam Elnozahy Appointed As Curator Of The 2027 Ulaanbaatar Biennale
From the Editors, MoMA PS1 Will Open New Café, Chef DeVonn Francis’s Symone, This October
From the Editors, Armory Show to Inaugurate Two Museum Acquisition Prizes at 2026 Edition
From the Editors, Nonprofit Blank Forms To Move Into A New Space In SoHo This Fall
Artnet
Simon De Pury, Simon de Pury: Sometimes the Art World Gets It Wrong
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Could Brighton Become the New Margate? And Other Art World Matters
Min Chen, Why Louis Comfort Tiffany Still Dazzles Collectors
Nolan Simon, Marcel Duchamp in Full: Join Painter Nolan Simon on a Tour of MoMA’s Sprawling Show
Jo Lawson-Tancred, V&A Workers Vote to Strike Over Pay, Heat—and More Industry Intel
Vittoria Benzine, Cult-Fave Art Space Blank Forms Is Getting a New Home in SoHo
ARTnews
Devorah Lauter, Marseille Museum President Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Putting Institution ‘At Risk’: Report
Brian Boucher, An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due
Andy Battaglia, Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch
Tessa Solomon, Emergency Appeal Asks Federal Court to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center
Brian Boucher, The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in a Building it Already Owns, Riling Conservatives
Leigh Anne Miller, Rediscovered Portrait by Baroque Master Bernini Will Be On View in Vienna this December
ArtReview
Yuwen Jiang, ‘Youth Palace’: Who Gets to Shape the Young?
Martin Herbert, Franco Vaccari: Reverie Against Ruin
Financial Times
Enuma Okoro, On the road back to routine
Jackie Wullschläger, What makes the most expensive paintings so expensive?
Frieze
From the Editors, What to See Across the UK This Summer
Vivienne Chow, Po Po: Reassessing the Language of Isolation in ‘Spotlight’
The Guardian
Arusa Qureshi, Bebe Cave: Swoon review – dazzling portrait of marginalised muses and the male gaze
Hyperallergic
Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: How Do I Get the Guggenheim Fellowship?
Daniela Mayer, At This Year’s Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Rethinks Its Centers
Seph Rodney, Miles Greenberg Rehearses Myths for the Future
Phillip Pyle, Maya Lin to Build Otherworldly “Floating Landscape” at UT Austin
Emma Cieslik, Artists Commit to the Bit at This Year’s Vulva Gala
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel
The Los Angeles Times
Isa Farfan, An exhibition created with Dolores Huerta traces U.S. deportation history
The New York Times
Michael Kimmelman, Behind the Mysterious Symbols Spray-Painted on Our Streets
Robin Pogrebin, Smithsonian Plan for Latino Museum Would Avoid Vote in Congress
The New Yorker
Julian Lucas, Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America?
Observer
Christa Terry, The Best Jackson Hole Art Galleries
Elisa Carollo, How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete
Elisa Carollo, FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art
Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “The Renaissance Engraver at Work” at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Elisa Carollo, The Icy Gays Built a Collection By Cultivating Relationships—and Ignoring Market Hype
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, New art fair for women opens in DC with all sales going to artists
Adam Schrader, Chinese court sets August 25 verdict for jailed artist Gao Zhen
Adam Schrader, Russian drone strike burns wing of Kherson Art Museum
Adam Schrader, WNDR Museum is closing both of its U.S. locations
Adam Schrader, FBI returns 48 ancient artifacts to Egypt at Los Angeles ceremony
Adam Schrader, NYC billed itself for 161 summonses at cultural institutions since 2023
Adam Schrader, Toledo Museum of Art worker says his union support got him fired
The Wall Street Journal
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