Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Museums Turn to A.I. to Create Personalized Tour Experiences by Dale Berning Sawa for The New York Times. Museums consider using A.I. to make information about a museum’s collection more accessible to visitors.
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Documenta 16 hires four new curators
Alex Wang, Life mirrors art: the story of Yayoi Kusama
Andrew Maerkle, ‘Mariko Mori anticipated the zeitgeist’: curator Alexandra Monroe on her new show and how Japan’s art scene has changed
Azby Brown, Architect Kae Ito creates a modular ‘secret garden’ for Art Week Tokyo’s bar
Lisa Movius, ‘Travel guides are far from neutral forms’: Art Week Tokyo video programme goes off the map
Paul Laster, Five exhibitions to see during Art Week Tokyo
From the Editors, Ruinart invites Tadashi Kawamata to create work for Art Week Tokyo
From the Editors, Hybrid events help turn up Art Week Tokyo’s buzz
From the Editors, Californian Michelin-starred restaurant serves up book on the art of hospitality and farming
From the Editors, In two minds: duality of Viktor&Rolf’s design ideology on show in Milan exhibition
From the Editors, Fifth generation Indian weaver launches luxury cashmere brand
Artnet
Richard Whiddington, Haunting Yoshitomo Nara Painting Could Rake in $15M at Auction
Jo Lawson-Tancred, London’s National Gallery: ‘Keep Away’ If You Want Trigger Warnings
Sonia Manalili, A Mega-Gallery Wellness Check
Judd Tully, Inside One Couple’s Legendary Pop Art Collection
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Christie’s First Fine Art Auction in Abu Dhabi Totals $8.94 M.
Maximilíano Durón, In Reply to Senators’ Amicus Briefs, Austria, Albertina, and Leopold Museum Double Down on Unconstitutionality of HEAR Act
Andy Battaglia, Ukraine Charges a Russian General in Absentia Over the Missile Strike That Destroyed the Skovoroda Museum
Anne Doran, Seven Sculpture Shows to See in New York, From Modernist Masterpieces to Contemporary Anti-Monuments
Leigh Anne Miller, Italian Police Used AI to Identify $200 M. Worth of Stolen Art and Antiquities
Harrison Jacobs, The Met Museum and Vacheron Constantin Unveil Artworks Produced Through New Residency
Hikmat Mohammed, Vietnamese-American Photographer and Oberlin Professor Pipo Nguyen-duy Found Dead at 64
Devorah Lauter, Louvre Signs Deal with Unions, Ending Threat of Continued Strikes
ArtReview
Beatrice Loayza, ‘Primetime’ Review: A Sensationalisation of Sensationalism
Stephanie Bailey, Are There Lessons to Be Learned From Gen X?
From the Editors, Art Dhaka to launch inaugural edition
Financial Times
Josh Spero and Laura Dubois, EU to downgrade art market money-laundering risk despite heists
Jackie Wullschläger, Picasso called him ‘the father of us all’ — what explains Cézanne’s enduring influence?
The Guardian
Kat Lister, Beaches, Beatles and a broken marriage: how Wilhelmina Barns-Graham became a radical art icon
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, The Greatest Art Costumes From Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party
Aaron Short, 10 Years Later, Magenta Plains Is Still Embracing the Unexpected
Rhea Nayyar, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and M+ Announce Novel Collection Alliance
Anna Lee, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Beloved Photography Professor, Murdered at 64
Anna Lee, In South Carolina, Artistic Freedom Is on the Ballot This November
Rhea Nayyar, Surprise! US Pavilion Needs More Cash to Ship Works Home
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel: Anna Pajak
Hakim Bishara, To Live Is to Believe
The Los Angeles Times
Shana Nys Dambrot, A new L.A. art gallery in this economy? Here are 15 standouts defying the odds
The New York Times
Alice Newell-Hanson and Richard Mosse, Living in a Glass House Changed Her Life
Alina Tugend, Local Artists Speak to Baltimore’s Long and Complex History
Julia Jacobs, Court Filing Cites Internal Pressure to Close Kennedy Center
Scott Reyburn, Why Does Culture Feel So Monotonous? A Walking Tour Reveals the Math.
Nina Siegal, A Rembrandt on Your Skin: Museum Hosts a Tattoo Parlor in Amsterdam
Zoë Lescaze, Swarms of Butterflies Land at the American Museum of Natural History
Jane L. Levere, The Ancient Skill of Glassmaking Feels New Again
EDITOR’S PICK - Dale Berning Sawa, Museums Turn to A.I. to Create Personalized Tour Experiences: What if you could carry your own personal curator in your pocket? Museums are hoping A.I. can make this a reality.
Eilene Zimmerman, Exploring the Joy and Solace of Queer Latino Nightlife
Hilarie M. Sheets, Recalling the Pathbreaking Role of a Newark Art Space
Mackenzie Oster, Watch Out for These Creepy-Crawly Floral Arrangements
John Hanc, Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Is Reborn, Expanding to the Outdoors
Janelle Conaway, In the Fog of War, Native American Veteran Artists Find Inspiration
Adam Popescu, In Its $240 Million Remodel, the La Brea Tar Pits Faces a Mammoth Task
Observer
Christa Terry, A Los Angeles Itinerary for Art Lovers
Puck
Dan Duray, Welcome to the Cultural Revolution!
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Rich Kleiman says Mamdani, Hochul aren’t doing enough on homelessness
Adam Schrader, SVA’s computer arts MFA turns 40 as two other graduate programs stop taking applications
Adam Schrader, Nicola Costantino turns provocative art practice toward ceramic flowers
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