June 3, 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 Society’s Repair Begins With Art by Laura Raicovich for Hyperallergic. Arguing that art is a vital tool for fostering connection, civic engagement, and collective action, and that rebuilding society requires reclaiming culture as a shared, everyday practice.
Art in America
Andy Battaglia, Koyoltzintli’s Clay Instruments Channel Sounds from Distant Pasts
Eliza Goodpasture, How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious
The Art Newspaper
Louisa Buck, Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale
Gareth Harris, JR’s wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm
Kealey Boyd, Colorado passes law giving artists new legal and fiscal tools
Sarp Kerem Yavuz, Comment | Furor over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI
Petala Ironcloud, Phoenix Art Museum gifted 185 works of Native American art
Artforum
From the Editors, French Artists Denounce Centre Pompidou and Hanwha Partnership in Open Letter
From the Editors, Graduate Arts Programs Could Lose Loan Access Under New Federal Guidelines
Artnet
Jo Lawson-Tancred, This Masterwork by Irish Painter Gerard Dillon Just Crushed Its Auction Estimate by 450 Percent
Richard Whiddington, Oscar Tuazon Resurrects a Lost Scott Burton Work for New York’s AIDS Memorial
Vittoria Benzine, Pussy Riot Turns Its Venice Biennale Protest Into a Music Video
ARTnews
Tessa Solomon, Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education
Harrison Jacobs, Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past
Andy Battaglia, Raymonde Arcier, Feminist Artist Who Worked With Fabric in France, Dies at 86
Tessa Solomon, Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon
Devorah Lauter, French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein & Co. Gallery Can Proceed
Brian Boucher, Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup
Daniel Cassady, Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time
ArtReview
Lewis Gordon, The Life and Death of the ‘Liminal Space’
From the Editors, Open letter denounces Centre Pompidou and Hanwha group partnership
The Brooklyn Rail
Dian Parker, CELIA PAUL with Dian Parker
Jurriaan Benschop, THOMAS DEMAND with Jurriaan Benschop
Amanda Gluibizzi, ALLISON KATZ with Amanda Gluibizzi
Andrew Paul Woolbright, MARKUS LÜPERTZ with Andrew Paul Woolbright
Joachim Pissarro and Jennifer Stockman, ROD BIGELOW with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman
Frieze
Chloe Aridjis, Donna Huddleston and the Luminous Language of Drawing
Liliana Porter, Liliana Porter: The Ana Mendieta I Knew
James Hoff, Jordan Nassar, Rachel Valinsky and Travis Diehl, Printed Matter: The Bookshop that Changed Artist Publishing
Cici Peng, The Many Lives of Marianne Faithfull
Lisette May Monroe, Chantal Joffe’s Awkward and Intimate Portraits
Zoë Hopkins, Leilah Babirye’s Masks Begin in the Scrapyard
Ramona Heinlein, Liesl Raff Investigates the Material Life of Latex
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, Cave paintings, a galleon and a wild Frenchman: London Gallery Weekend’s 10 must-see shows
Veronica Esposito, ‘A kind of reconnecting with the past’: the Met celebrates the art of the portrait
Ana Elisa Sotelo, Women behind the lens: ‘Once naked, they formed a circle. The kicking and screaming occurred naturally’
Jonathan Jones, Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time
Hyperallergic
Matt Stromberg, 15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer
Amanda Manitach, Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition
Shameekia Shantel Johnson, Lucian Freud’s Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Auction
Silvia Benedetti, Artist Julio Le Parc, Maestro of Light, Movement, and Defiance, Dies at 97
Rhea Nayyar, Met Museum Announces Free Memberships for NY SNAP Recipients
Aaron Short, The Small Miracle of Greenpoint Open Studios
Isa Farfan, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein of “Jerry Gogosian” Found Dead in Brazil
Rhea Nayyar, Kingston Locals Can’t Stand City’s “Soulless” New Signage
John Yau, Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology
Matt Stromberg, Unofficial Iraqi Pavilion Pops Up in Venice, but Not That One
EDITOR’S PICK - Laura Raicovich, Society’s Repair Begins With Art: We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.
From the Editors, Opportunities in June 2026
The New York Times
Jason Farago, MoMA Turns to the Bay Area for Its New Photography Chief
Zachary Small, New Federal Guidelines Threaten Almost Half of Graduate Arts Programs
Alex Marshall, Over 100 Artists Threaten to Sue Venice Biennale for Including Them in Awards
Observer
Daniel Grant, How Outposts Turned the World’s Greatest Museums into Instruments of Soft Power
Courtney Maum, The Books That Taught Author Courtney Maum How to Be Funny Without Being Cruel
Elisa Carollo, Edmondo and Michele di Robilant Chart a Course for Robilant with Old Masters and New Names
Siddhant Adlaka, Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War
Elisa Carollo, London Gallery Weekend Charts the Evolving Coordinates of the British Art Scene
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Wyland sues FIFA, property owners over Dallas whale mural destruction
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Wyland v. FIFA et al.
Adam Schrader, How to buy beautiful things from all over the world
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