June 9, 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 Nearly Half of Mid-Career Women Are Thinking of Leaving the Art World: Report by Margaret Carrigan for Artnet. An Artnet and AWITA report finds that nearly half of mid-career women are considering leaving the art world due to low pay, burnout, and structural inequities.
The Art Newspaper
Constanza Ontiveros Valdes, Mexico City museum with world’s richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy
Douglas Markowitz, Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents
A. Cerisse Cohen, New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power
Annabel Keenan, Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show
Gabriella Angeleti, MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music
From the Editors, Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition
Joe Ware, Stoke-on-Trent—the UK’s home of ceramics—seeks emergency funds for crumbling heritage
Artforum
Jordan Cronk, A Europudding-flavored Competition: Cannes 2026 Reviewed
Matthew Linde, Crimes of Fashion: Sofia Coppola’s “Pseudy Portrait” of Marc Jacobs
From the Editors, Private Jackson Pollock Auction Falls Apart at Sotheby’s: Report
From the Editors, Da Vinci’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ is Brought Back Together With New Online Archive
From the Editors, Tone Hansen Appointed Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm
From the Editors, Julio Le Parc, Father of Interactive Art, Dies at 97
Artnet
Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Kim Gordon Nixes Noise Show, Lucien Smith and Jens Hoffmann Mount Comebacks, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip
Margaret Carrigan, India Surges Ahead as Asia’s Art Market Splinters
Katya Kazakina, Templon Gallery Shutters New York Branch
EDITOR’S PICK - Margaret Carrigan, Nearly Half of Mid-Career Women Are Thinking of Leaving the Art World: Report: New Artnet and AWITA research exposes the structural barriers driving a talent crisis, and what the industry must do to reverse it.
Vittoria Benzine, Dutch Court Sentences Thieves in Explosive Museum Heist
ARTnews
Karen Chernick, What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?
Thomas Rom, Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year
Brian Boucher, Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art
Daniel Cassady, Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion
Daniel Cassady, Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay
Anne Doran, Russian and Kyrgyz Scientists Explore Medieval City That Drowned in a 15th Century Earthquake
Leigh Anne Miller, Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84
Oren Peleg, Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest
Tori Latham, Price for Billionaire Bill Koch’s Aspen Home Cut from $125 M. to $99 M., Put Up For Auction
Brian Boucher, French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum
Andy Battaglia, Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance
ArtReview
Sonja Teszler, Racheal Crowther: Smells Like Military-Industrial Complex
The Brooklyn Rail
Anisa Jackson, Beverly Price & Gordon Parks: A Language We Share
Matthew Biro, Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE
Allison Carey, Cecilia Vicuña: Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey
Ben La Rocco, Harlem Sculpture Gardens
Patricia L Lewy, Jasper Johns: Flags
Financial Times
Jaxoba Urist, Max Beckmann’s granddaughter on living with his paintings — and the artist’s love of cartwheels
Frieze
From the Editors, Under Deconstruction: Yagwang Wins the Frieze Seoul Artist Award 2026
Summer Guthery, Marianne Vitale Sculpts the Wreckage of American Industry
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, Georg Baselitz review – a final, furious, chaotic reckoning with death
Veronica Esposito, ‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments
Dalya Alberge, Cello belonging to artist John Constable to be played for first time in 100 years
John Semley, Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’
Hyperallergic
Jen Torwudzo-Stroh, A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center
Isa Farfan, Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name
Rhea Nayyar, Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike
Alexis Clements, The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
John Yau, Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry
The New York Times
Victoria Burnett, Bounty of Frida Kahlo Art Emerges in Mexico’s Restored Museum
Observer
Jordan Riefe, Sprüth Magers Celebrates a Decade in Los Angeles With the Artists Who Helped Define a City
Chenoa Baker, In Philadelphia, a New Art Fair Removes Scale From the Equation
Elisa Carollo, Christie’s Rachel Koffsky On How the Handbag Became the Art Market’s Most Elegant Entry Point
Elisa Carollo, In the Korean Pavilion, Nation-Building Is an Open and Ongoing Process
Stephen Garrett, Director Cristian Mungiu Says ‘Fjord’ Is About the Limits of Freedom, Not Clashing Cultures
Leigh Scheps, Inside the Hottest Tony Award Afterparties of 2026
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, DoorDash driver accused of stealing artworks from Memphis condo building
Adam Schrader, People keep stealing a MILF magnet from the Vagina Museum
Adam Schrader, IDF alerts Lebanese residents to evacuate near Tyre; ICOMOS pens urgent warning
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