March 24, 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 Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art? by Julia Curl for Hyperallergic. Curl argues that ethical AI art requires transparency, consent, and fair compensation for artists.
Apollo Magazine
Arjun Sajip, The blue-sky thinking of Konrad Mägi
Michael Delgado, Salon du Dessin gets the party started
Rakewell, Lily Allen brings a smile to the NPG
From the Editors, Making art safe again
From the Editors, Hundreds of Venice Biennale participants call for Israel pavilion to be cancelled
From the Editors, Elisabeth Cummings
From the Editors, Acquisitions of the month: February 2026
Emma Crichton-Miller, If you’re in the market for jade, there are rock-solid bargains to be had
From the Editors, Four things to see: Stolen art
Art Asia Pacific
Elaine W. Ng, Ole Scheeren’s Róng Museum: From Tech‑City to Cultural Capital
From the Editors, New in Town: Four Spaces Debuting in Hong Kong, March 2026
The Art Newspaper
Gameli Hamelo, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama considering legal action after alleged police assault
Claudia Barbieri Childs, French government blocks sale of newly discovered drawing by German Renaissance master Hans Baldung
Brady Ng, New Hong Kong fairs offer fresh opportunities for a changing market
From the Editors, Exhibitions to see during Art Basel Hong Kong
Lisa Movius and Hokhang Cheung, Hong Kong’s contemporary art scene is blossoming in difficult times
Ilaria Maria Sala, Museums in Shenzhen and Guangzhou are building bridges between Hong Kong and mainland China
Hokhang Cheung, Hong Kong gains new foundation for global majority
Florence Hallett, London exhibition celebrates Konrad Mägi, Estonia’s mystic Modern master
Ben Luke, ‘Every minute was a minute to create’: Paris show presents Henri Matisse’s dazzling finale
Aimee Dawson, Keeping up with the Kleins: exhibition brings together Yves’s talented artist family
Melanie Gerlis, Comment | All hail the rise of the art internship
Artforum
Bennett Smith, Double Dealing
From the Editors, Paris Internationale Milano Names Participating Galleries for Inaugural Edition
From the Editors, Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget
From the Editors, Art Fund Launches ‘Empowering Curators’ Program for Global Majority Professionals
From the Editors, White House Welcomes Replica of Christopher Columbus Statue Toppled by Protesters in 2020
Artnet
Cathy Fan and Vivienne Chow, 5 Must-See Shows in Hong Kong During Art Basel
Ben Davis, ‘Reality Decay’ Is at the Root of All the Bad News
Richard Whiddington, Monumental Bellini Altarpiece Undergoes Major Restoration in Public View
Kate Brown, Prussian Porcelain, Techno, Cabaret! Inside Berlin’s First-Ever Art Gala
Min Chen, Brooklyn Museum Treasures, History-Making Guitars—and More Collectibles to Watch
Vittoria Benzine, France Freezes Sale of Rediscovered Renaissance Portrait
Vittoria Benzine, A Chunk of Eiffel Tower’s Spiral Staircase Returns to Auction After 40 Years
Richard Whiddington, Massive Cache of 42,000 Pottery Shards Reveals Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Richard Whiddington, Churchill Landscape Gets First U.K. Showing in Exhibition Tracing His Artistic Life
ARTnews
Karen Chernick, “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Met Reunites Works with Their Historical Companions
Daniel Cassady, Thaddaeus Ropac Takes on Martha Diamond Estate, Signaling New Attention for Overlooked New York Painter
Tessa Solomon, At the 2026 Hong Kong Cultural Summit, Museum Leaders Pitch New Models for Institutions
Brian Boucher, Art Collector and ‘Galerie’ Magazine Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Jeffrey Epstein in Emails: ‘There Is No One Else Like You’
Leigh Anne Miller, Newly Translated 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Proves Presence of Indian Visitors to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
Anne Doran, Egyptian Archeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Coffins of Temple Chanters in Luxor
Maximilíano Durón, See Inside the Venice Biennale’s Newly Renovated Central Pavilion Ahead of the 2026 Edition
Andy Battaglia, Statue Removed from Delaware During Black Lives Matter Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.
Daniel Cassady, Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue on White House Grounds
Tessa Solomon, In Hong Kong for Art Basel? Don’t Miss These Local Galleries and Museums
ArtReview
Oliver Basciano, When the Ukraine War Continues
Yuwen Jiang, Yang Fudong’s Memory Palace
Phoebe Roy, Conspiracies: Who Can You Trust?
From the Editors, Artist Ibrahim Mahama ‘assaulted’ by Ghanaian police
From the Editors, Calvin Tomkins, art writer and biographer, 1925–2025
Bloomberg News
Felix Salmon, The Most Important Picasso You Cannot See Is in Iran
BOMB
Leo Bussi, Molly Rose Lieberman by Leo Bussi
Family Style
Karissa Simchick, After Dark
Financial Times
Catherine Olster, My search for the Renoir sisters
Frieze
Michael Barron, Rutherford Chang’s Art of Accumulation
Claire Shiying Li, 7 Shows To See During Hong Kong Art Week 2026
Galerie
Alexandria Sillo, The Met to Acquire Renaissance Artist Rosso Fiorentino’s Rediscovered Seminal Painting
Gogo Taubman, Manuel and Ruby Neri Share Two Galleries and a Lifetime of Craft
Ryan Waddoups, The New Museum’s Long-Awaited Expansion Opens on the Bowery
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, Hurvin Anderson review – this haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone’s memories
Kelly Burke, From car parks to piers: the 2026 Australian Urban Design awards recognise a gentler approach to pragmatic projects
Caroline Davis, Exhibition to tell story of Punjabi princess and pioneering suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh
Veronica Esposito, ‘A very basic human desire to want some control’: US exhibition explores the power of magic
Hyperallergic
EDITOR’S PICK - Julia Curl, Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?: There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”
Natalie Haddad, The Angel of History Is Stuck in Jerusalem
Rhea Nayyar, Trump Erects Contentious Columbus Statue Outside White House
Greta Rainbow, Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
Nageen Shaikh, Before the “Global South,” Indian Modernists Dreamed of Solidarity
The New York Times
Emily LaBarge, The Final, Flying Colors of Matisse’s ‘Second Life’
Aruna D’Souza, A Grand New Space for African Art, Uniting the Continent
Franz Lidz, Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover
Nina Siegal, How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Collecting Art
Dean Napolitano, A New Space Built to Replicate an Old-Fashioned Art Salon
Anjali Tsui, A Painter Reveals Hong Kong’s Natural Wonders — and Where to See Them
Mercedes Hutton, Beyond Art Basel Hong Kong, Cyborgs, Neon Abstractions and More
Christy Choi, Pulling the Threads of Hong Kong’s Textile Heritage
Observer
Elisa Carollo, These Are the Exhibitions Not to Miss in Hong Kong
Elisa Carollo, In L.A., Christina Quarles Confronts the Tension Between Body, Space and Identity
Elisa Carollo, Inside M+’s Mission to Shape Asia’s Art Canon, With Chief Curator Doryun Chong
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Fear and Loathing on the Gonzo Art Trail: Ralph Steadman show opens in Torrance
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