June 15, 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 8 Proposals for a Better Art World by Andrew Russeth for T Magazine. Artists imagine a better art world built on public support, accessibility, community, diversity, and creativity over commerce.
Airmail
Patricia Zohn, Barbara Hepworth’s True Colors
Art in America
Leah Ollman, Jenny Calivas Buries Herself in Sand—and Reinvents Photography From the Ground Up
Eugenie Brinkema, Why the Tragicomic Feels Like the Most Honest Aesthetic Now
The Art Newspaper
Louisa Buck, Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’
Gareth Harris, The art world honours David Hockney, ‘who flew the flag higher than any other British artist’
Kabir Jhala, Tea company’s collection of South Asian Modern art soars at Christie’s London
Louisa Buck, Glasgow International 2026 offers reminder of city’s cultural power at a challenging time
Artforum
The New York Board of Taste, The New York Board of Taste Discusses Disco History, Andrew Durbin, and the Capriciousness of Destiny
From the Editors, “The Art of the Game” Brings Work by 23 Artists To New York and New Jersey for the World Cup
From the Editors, David Hockney, Master Painter of Modern Life, Dead at 88
From the Editors, Charleston’s International African American Museum To Furlough Staff Amid Funding Shortages
From the Editors, Photographer-Provocateur Duane Michals Dies at 94
Artnet
Katya Kazakina, What Comes After Grow-or-Go? How Goodman Gallery Changed Course
Min Chen, How the Bruce Springsteen Center Is Telling the Story of American Music
Andrew Russeth, It’s a Nightclub, a Book Fair, a Sauna, an Art Show, and More. It’s Basel Social Club!
Margaret Carrigan, The Art World Is Great at Spotting Talent. Keeping It? Not So Much.
Ben Davis, What Was the Art World Like the Last Time the Knicks Were in the Championship?
Vittoria Benzine, The Art World Remembers David Hockney: ‘A True Lover of Life’
Katie White, Artist Kohei Nawa Brings His Pixelated Menagerie to Los Angeles
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Frank Bowling Foundation Launches—and More Art Industry News
Richard Whiddington, Christie’s London Sale Confirms Growing Appetite for South Asian Art
Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, The Art Trade’s Talent Problem
Richard Whiddington, The Wit and Wisdom of David Hockney
ARTnews
Daniel Cassady, Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser & Wirth for Worldwide Representation
Tessa Solomon, Almine Rech Announces Collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada
Harrison Jacobs, The Most Expensive Works by David Hockney Sold at Auction
Anne Doran, AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100
Harrison Jacobs, Steven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46
From the Editors, Prolific Armenian Painter Haroutiun Galentz is Making a Comeback Across Europe
Maximilíano Durón, Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch
ArtReview
Lydia Eliza Trail, Recession Indicator Art
Fi Churchman, Saodat Ismailova: Nothing Disappears Completely
Qingyuan Deng, Oototol, Indonesia’s Unknown Bard
From the Editors, Cartoonist Joe Sacco claims Penguin India “looking for excuses” to scrap politically sensitive book
The Brooklyn Rail
Andrew Paul Woodbright, Amorelle Jacox: Mothers of Time
Frederique Joseph-Lowery, Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939
Scarlet Cheng, Miguel Soler-Roig: Nostalgic memory of my Life Before Birth
Madelyn Santorelli, Cassandra Mayela Allen: Aquel Amplex
Jad Jari, War and the Production of Space: Notes from Beirut
Financial Times
Tom Faber, Oliver Beer: the artist who makes ancient cave paintings sing
Mark C O’Flaherty, Nina Hamnett – art’s unsung ‘Queen of Bohemia’
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath
Andrew Gilchrist, ‘I call this dish Frida Kahlo Against the World. It’s hot and horny!’ My thrilling week of Fridamania in Mexico City
Lanre Bakare, Photographer Don McCullin to focus on Vietnam for his final book
Jonathan Jones, ‘His last kiss to the world’: David Hockney’s return to Yorkshire triggered a glorious reawakening
Ella Baron, Ella Baron on David Hockney – cartoon
Hyperallergic
Lisa Yin Zhang, Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88
Eileen G’Sell, “I Shot Andy Warhol” Upends the Myth of the Great Man
Rhea Nayyar, 25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250
Rhea Nayyar, Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel
The Los Angeles Times
Kevin Baxter, L.A. museum highlights Jewish roots that shaped world’s most popular soccer styles
The New York Times
Derrick Bryson Taylor, Vandals Damage Work by Black Artist at Houston Museum, Officials Say
Zoë Lescaze, A History of American Utopia in 10 Acts
Silvia Benedetti, The 91-Year-Old Weaving Ancestral Tradition Into Art
Ana Ionova, Brazilians, Paintbrushes in Hand, Revive a World Cup Ritual
Observer
John Ball, What the Cultural Sector Got Wrong About the Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrand
Christa Terry, €3.5 Million Raised in 20 Minutes: Inside the American Friends of Versailles Gala
Christa Terry, Our Favorite Looks from the Frick Collection Spring Garden Party
Stephen Reily and Sam Gill, How Can Philanthropy Help the Arts? By Fully Supporting Innovators
Brianna J. Heath, MOCAD’s Co-Directors On What a Museum Owes a Changing City
Elisa Carollo, The Future-Facing Museum Exhibitions Not to Miss in Basel
T Magazine
Max Lakin, The 1960s Artists Who Took Aim at MoMA
EDITOR’S PICK - Andrew Russeth, 8 Proposals for a Better Art World: Artists on what a more utopian version of their field might look like.
M.H. Miller, American Artists Are Still Looking for Utopia
Cassie Packard, ‘A Beautiful, Horny, Gorgeous, Stylish Time’: An Oral History of Casa de Estrogen
The Wall Street Journal
Dominic Green, Capturing the Men Who Lost the Revolution
From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of June 14
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