March 30, 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 Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US by Frank Lord for The Art Newspaper. A new expansion of the HEAR Act permanently extends restitution claims for Nazi-looted art.
Airmail
Patricia Zohn, The Unbreakable Maria Lassnig
Apollo Magazine
Benjamin Markovits, A Cornish scene where nothing happens, but every detail is full of life
Stephen Patience, In praise of Schiaparelli, the designer who gave the Surrealists ideas
Oliver Cox, Confirmed bachelor pads: ‘A Queer Inheritance’, reviewed
Helen Barrett, Can the V&A win at the generation game?
Jane Morris, How Milan is refashioning itself as a contemporary art hub
Edward Behrens, The art of looking closely
Michael Delgado, Restoring Dresden’s crowning glory
Hettie Judah, The dangers of playing the ‘beautiful’ game
Catherine Ince, Absolutely prefab: how Charles and Ray Eames changed the idea of home
Iris Moon, How Viollet-le-Duc rebuilt a nation
Digby Warde-Aldam, The second coming of Tracey Emin
Eve M. Kahn, Edmonia Lewis’s life is shrouded in silence, but her sculptures speak for themselves
From the Editors, Bernardo Bellotto, urban legend
Christina Makris, Simply red: a short history of Shiraz
Emma Crichton-Miller, Is early American photography coming into sharper focus?
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse works stolen in ‘three-minute’ Italian museum heist
Vincent Noce, Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie’s and other positions in Pinault’s companies
EDITOR’S PICK - Frank Lord, Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US: Expanded version of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act in the US fundamentally alters the legal landscape for both claimants and current owners.
Artforum
Isabelle Francis McGuire, Isabelle Frances McGuire on Charles Ray’s writing and Critic-Nuns on the BBC
From the Editors, Guillaume Cerutti Out as President of Paris’s Pinault Collection After 13 Months
From the Editors, Dalí Museum Acquires Dalí’s Largest Work: A Monumental Surrealist Ballet Set
From the Editors, The New School Plans to Lay Off 15% of Staff By June
From the Editors, Cristopher Canizares Leaves Hauser & Wirth to Start Artist Management Firm
Artnet
Min Chen, How Pharrell’s Joopiter Is Redefining What an Auction House Can Be
From the Editors, The Rising Artists on Everyone’s Radar
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Guillaume Cerutti Exits Pinault Collection After Just 13 Months—and More Art Industry News
From the Editors, Which Artists Are Insiders Searching For? After 10 Years, Not Much Has Changed
Kristian Vistrup Madsen, How Mumok’s New Director Plans to Make Museums Feel Alive Again
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Still Life Painter Poppy Jones’s Career Is on the Move
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Thieves Snatch Renoir, Matisse, and Cézanne Works From Italian Museum
Vittoria Benzine, Hidden Underground Railroad Passage Discovered at New York Museum Faces Development Threat
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Israeli Artist’s Show in Mexico City Closes After Antisemitic Harassment
Vivienne Chow and Cathy Fan, Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the Latest in Asia’s Art World
Margaret Carrigan, What Hong Kong’s Art Week Reveals About the Market’s ‘New Normal’
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sotheby’s Sets 12 Records for South Asian Artists in a Single Sale
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Salvador Dalí’s Largest Work Snapped Up by Florida Museum
Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, A Shift in Hong Kong’s Market
ARTnews
From the Editors, The IFPDA Print Fair Returns to the Park Avenue Armory, Illuminating the Relationship Between Prints and Drawings
Devorah Lauter, Claire Tabouret’s Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame Divide French Society, with a Legal Threat Looming
Anne Doran, Kennedy Center Begins Staff Layoffs
Harrison Jacobs, Guillaume Cerutti, Former Christie’s CEO, Leaves Post as Pinault Collection President
Andy Battaglia, Antonio Homem, Champion of the Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Dies at 86
Leigh Anne Miller, Watch K-Pop Superstars BTS Perform New Singles “SWIM” and “2.0” at the Guggenheim Museum
Alex Greenberger, European Parliament Members Call on EU to Strip Funding from Venice Biennale Amid Russian Pavilion Controversy
ArtReview
Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Chobi Mela XI Review: Can We Start Over?
Financial Times
Gisela Williams, Agnès Debizet’s magical Marais flat is an artwork in itself
Frieze
From the Editors, The Best Shows to See Across Europe Right Now
Mounira Zennia, Must-See: Julia Heyward’s Many Voices
Lou Selfridge, When War Imagery Fails to Shock, Artists Turn to Absence
The Guardian
Dalya Alberge, Painting considered workshop copy is in fact by Rembrandt, expert says
Libby Brooks, Glasgow arts hub tenants condemn ‘unsustainable’ rent rises by landlord
Agence France-Presse, Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings worth millions from Italian museum
From the Editors, Unmasking artists like Banksy and Ferrante
Hyperallergic
Isa Farfan, Marica Vilcek, Graceful Champion of Immigrant Artists, Dies at 89
Austen Villacis, How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb
Kathy Ou, How to Survive AI
Isa Farfan, UK Museums Hold Over 260,000 Human Remains, Report Finds
Matt Stromberg, Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table
Natalie Haddad, Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel
Observer
Gameli Hamelo, In Dubai, Efie Gallery Is Rewriting the Map of Contemporary African Art
Nick Hilden, Observer’s Guide to the Best Art in Istanbul
Henry Roberts, The Darkness and the Light in Photographer Sante D’Orazio
Dan Duray, Robert Wiesenberger On Thinking Relationally and Brooklyn’s Art World Ambitions
Elisa Carollo, Art Central Is Still Hong Kong’s Most Vital Discovery Fair
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, AMNH sues sightseeing pass company over $548K in unpaid tickets
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: AMNH Lawsuit Against Twin America and Sightseeing Pass
Adam Schrader, Austrian auction house sues Long Island auctioneer over $375 Buddhist sculpture sale
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Austrian Auction House Sues Long Island Auctioneer Over $375 Sale
Adam Schrader, Syrian artist imprisoned by Assad regime opens exhibition in Damascus
Adam Schrader, Louisiana artist’s painting stolen from Arabi art space
Adam Schrader, George Petrides sues Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum over damaged sculptures
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: George Petrides Lawsuit Against National Hellenic Museum
The Wall Street Journal
From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of March 29
Mary Tompkins Lewis, ‘Seurat and the Sea’ Review: Going Coastal at the Courtauld
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