July 23, 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 If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves by Brian Boucher for ARTnews. Museums are increasingly relying on galleries to find collectors to fund acquisitions, blurring the line between the art market and nonprofit institutions.
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’
Hadani Ditmars, Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis
Sophia Kishkovsky, A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk
Anna Brady, Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin
Artforum
Nolan Kelly, In I Want Your Sex, Gregg Araki diagnoses straight malaise
Gracie Hadland, No More Broth: D’Ette Nogle’s R.I.P. for America
From the Editors, Federal Advisory Council to Slacken Rules Around Modifying Landmarks
From the Editors, Louvre Reopens Now-Empty Apollo Gallery Nine Months After Jewel Heist
From the Editors, Long-lost Historic Murals Uncovered in Chile
From the Editors, Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation Announces Major Gift
Artnet
Ben Davis, I Watched the Unhinged Anti-Smithsonian Congressional Hearing So You Don’t Have To
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jensen Huang Plows $75M Into Art School’s Rebirth—and Other Art World Matters
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jeff Koons Beats Copyright Infringement Claims in ‘Made in Heaven’ Lawsuit
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tate Taps Jessica Morgan as Director, Ending Yearlong Search
ARTnews
Devorah Lauter, French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down 424 Artworks Looted by Nazis
Tessa Solomon, Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Challenge to ‘Made in Heaven’ Series
Leigh Anne Miller, The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Without Any Crown Jewels
EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves: There are risks to museums’ increasing enmeshment in the marketplace, said one expert.
Anne Doran, Archaeologists Open Three New Kingdom Tombs at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis
Tessa Solomon, After $75 M. Gift, Shuttered California College of the Arts to Become School Named for Silicon Valley Billionaire
Maximilíano Durón, Getty Names Final Round of Grantees for Initiative Focused on Preserving Black Architects’ Work
Daniel Cassady, Gagosian to Stage Major René Magritte Exhibition During Frieze London
Daniel Cassady, Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work
Lilyanna D’amato, At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland
ArtReview
Beatrice Loayza, ‘The Odyssey’: The Feelgood Film of the Year
Max Crosbie-Jones, Art at the Cambodian Beach Resort
From the Editors, Jessica Morgan appointed Director of Tate
Frieze
Sam Moore, A Group Show Looks at Intimacy in the Digital Age
The Guardian
Lyndsey Winship, Beyond the body: Wayne McGregor stretches the definition of dance at this year’s Venice Dance Biennale
Eddy Frankel, Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’
Daniel Dylan Wray, ‘We didn’t care what the client wanted!’: Sheffield’s Designers Republic on their art for Aphex Twin, Pulp … and Pringles
Josh Nicholas, At greyhound life drawing, artists try to tackle complicated shapes
Hyperallergic
Isa Farfan and Anna Lee, Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall
Rhea Nayyar, Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director
John Yau, Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival
Olivia McEwan, You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings
Isa Farfan, Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment
Anna Lee, Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum
The New York Times
Deborah Solomon, She Championed Pollock and Rothko. Now Her Art Is on the Museum Walls.
Blake Gopnik, Women of a Certain Swagger, and Their Art Visions
Ilaria Parogni, In Artwork Across the Ages, Odysseus’ Myth Keeps Entrancing Audiences
Alex Marshall, Fire Ravaged an Architectural Gem. It May Cost Too Much to Restore It.
Observer
Mary Gregory, The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene
Adriana Marianella, The Sonic Frontier: Why Sound Is Becoming Culture’s New Favorite Medium
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, UNESCO lists Russian-occupied Chersonese as World Heritage in danger
Adam Schrader, Fifty buffalo puppets will roam Brooklyn and Manhattan streets in September
Adam Schrader, Police recover $60,000 in stolen paintings by Minneapolis artist Leon Hushcha
The Wall Street Journal
William Meyers, ‘Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography’ Review: Power Sources
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