Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Larry Gagosian Isn’t Losing Much Sleep Over the Great Wealth Transfer by Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. Larry Gagosian argues that a potential flood of inherited art could drive prices down, creating a buying opportunity for collectors.
The Art Newspaper
Lisa Movius, Gwangju Biennale permits Taiwan Pavilion name after row
Benjamin Sutton, Trump officials take down, explore sale of Kehinde Wiley painting commissioned for US embassy
From the Editors, When Dolly met Andy: a snapshot of the country music legend’s impact on artists
Zian Chen, How a new generation of Indigenous artists is redefining Taiwan’s contemporary art scene
Artforum
Arthur Marie, Arthur Marie on British Thrillers and Disappearing in America
From the Editors, 111 Works from Canada’s Federal Indigenous Art Collection Remain Missing
From the Editors, Russian Drone Strike Causes A Fire At The Kherson Regional Art Museum In Ukraine
From the Editors, Chinese Court Sentences Artist Gao Zhen to Three Years In Prison For Satirical Mao Sculptures
From the Editors, US State Department Looks to Sell “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting
Artnet
Ben Davis, An Art-Statesman’s Heel Turn—and Other Art World Matters
Vittoria Benzine, Elizabeth Peyton Sued Over Alleged Copyright Infringement of Oasis Photograph
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Gwangju Biennale Reinstates Taiwan Pavilion
Vittoria Benzine, Model in Kwame Brathwaite Photo Identified After 54 Years
Min Chen, A New Twist for Smithsonian’s Latino Museum—and Other Art World Matters
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, A £20 M. Mondrian Painting is the Highlight of Christie’s Frieze Week Evening Sale in October
Maximilíano Durón, Anne Imhof to Debut New Ballet-Inspired Performance at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary
Brian Boucher, Two Convicted in Hamburg Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Antiquities
Devorah Lauter, Photographer Sues Elizabeth Peyton Over Painting Using His Photo of Oasis Band Members
Brian Boucher, Trump Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center if He Can’t Close It for Renovations
EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Cassady, Larry Gagosian Isn’t Losing Much Sleep Over the Great Wealth Transfer: Because a trillion dollars of art is only worth a trillion dollars if somebody is willing to pay for it.
Hikmat Mohammed, Russia’s FSB Agents Recruited Former Pussy Riot Member to Spy on Artists
Tessa Solomon, Sliman Mansour, Towering Painter of Palestinian Perseverance, Has Died at 79
Francesca Aton, Fabrizio Plessi, Pioneering Italian Video Artist and Experimenter, Dies at 86
Hikmat Mohammed, Trump Administration Weighs Sale of Kehinde Wiley Painting in Larger Shift Away from ‘Globalist and Woke Ideologies’
ArtReview
Adeline Chia, Oototol’s Adult Play
From the Editors, Taiwan name restored to Gwangju Biennale pavilion
Financial Times
Kristina Foster, The postwar Korean photographer who captured the style and optimism of Seoul
Frieze
From the Editors, Must-See Museum Exhibitions in Seoul During Frieze Week 2026
Sasha Frere-Jones, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Music for Opening Time
Amrita Dhallu and Lubna Chowdhary, Lubna Chowdhary and the Embodiment of Ornament
Cassie Packard, Bringing the Cosmos Down to Earth
Wong Binghao (Bing), Jaeyong Park, Sejin Park and Andy St. Louis, Four Galleries Shaping Seoul
The Guardian
Oliver Giles, ‘The whole world is becoming rightwing and anti-gay’: William Yang on 60 years of capturing LGBTQ+ life
Danny Vincent, Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’
Catherine Slessor, Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks
Hyperallergic
Eliana Perozo, Artist’s Device Slows Down Citi Bikes in Less Affordable Neighborhoods
Anna Lee, Famed “Portrait of Omai” Will Go on View at LA’s Getty Museum
Rhea Nayyar, US State Department Takes Down “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting
Anna Lee, Chinese Artist Gao Zhen Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Mao Sculptures
Thea Quiray Tagle, An Ethos of “By Us, for Us” at the Santa Fe Indian Market
Dan Schindel, Barbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens
The New York Times
Jori Finkel, How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles
Alissa J. Rubin, Ancient Lebanese Treasures Take a Journey From Modern-Day Conflict
Marc Davis, Judge Says Sale of Titanic Artifacts Cannot Go Forward for Now
Observer
Scott Drevnig, Ali Banisadr On Turning the Buffalo AKG’s Wilmers Building Into a World of His Own
Fred Voon, The Artist Whose Paintings Helped Establish the World’s First National Park
Elisa Carollo, Tiny But Mighty, Aspen Has Become the Art World’s Most Exclusive Summer Retreat
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Wolf Kahn Foundation opens New York archive ahead of 2027 centennial
Adam Schrader, For-profit experience museums are piling up in court as WNDR shuts two locations
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