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 Everyone Is Concerned About How Museums Use AI in Exhibitions, Survey Says by Alex Greenberger for ARTnews. A new survey finds that US museum visitors remain wary of AI use while also highlighting museum audiences becoming more diverse and inclusive.
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Paul Hamlyn Foundation announces recipients of £75,000 Awards for Artists
Joe Ware, One museum visit a month could improve health, new report finds
John-Paul Stonard, Comment | John Berger at 100: why the writer and artist’s legacy is as vital as ever
Carlie Porterfield, Art Collaboration Kyoto fair celebrates five years of matchmaking galleries
Alexandre Crochet, Guillaume Cerutti named president of the Palace of Versailles
Catherine Hickley, Rare Altdorfer landscape previously unknown to scholars to be auctioned next month
Maev Kennedy, Charles Dickens’s writing chalet and Hastings Castle added to list of English heritage sites at risk
Osman Can Yerebakan, As it expands, Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center prioritises access and affordability
Artforum
From the Editors, After Rough Ride at Pinault Foundation, Guillaume Cerutti Will Helm Château de Versailles
From the Editors, Renovations at the New York Studio School Reveal Lost Murals
From the Editors, A French Museum’s “Wanted” Campaign Leads to Stolen Painting’s Return
From the Editors, Leonora Carrington Painting That Resurfaced After 70 Years Goes to Auction
Celia Paul and Hilton Als, The Art of Wanting What You Can’t Have
Artnet
Vittoria Benzine, The Fugees Want to Hear From You. Their New Art Project Is Taking Calls
Margaret Carrigan, Guillaume Cerutti Lands at Versailles After Pinault Ouster
Adam Lindemann, Lunch With Adam: The Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Director on Cultural Boycotts and Art’s Role Amid War
Vittoria Benzine, Michelangelo’s Secret Painting Technique Revealed in Sistine Chapel Restoration
Jo Lawson-Tancred, The ‘Cinematic Crop’: How Issy Wood Inspired a New Painting Style
ARTnews
Alex Greenberger, After a Democratic Victory in Midterm Elections, Trump Focuses on Touting His Ballroom: ‘This Is a Special Structure’
Hikmat Mohammed, Andrea Bowers Salutes the Climate Change Activists of the 1980s at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Harrison Jacobs, Five Pieces of Jewelry Calder Made for His Family Head to Bonhams With $300 K. Estimate
Hikmat Mohammed, Daniel Sikkema Sentenced to Life in Prison for the Murder of New York Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
Daniel Cassady, A Seagram Heir, a Bankrupt Hedge Funder, and More: Consignors for the November Marquee Sales Revealed
Maximilíano Durón, Museum Wiesbaden Will Be Germany’s First Institution to Return Colonial-Era Human Remains to Indonesia
EDITOR’S PICK - Alex Greenberger, Nearly Everyone Is Concerned About How Museums Use AI in Exhibitions, Survey Says: The AAM’s new survey also proposed flagging museum attendance from a new perspective.
Devorah Lauter, Guillaume Cerutti to Lead the Château de Versailles After Short Stint at Pinault Collection
Maximilíano Durón, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027 Announces 13 More Commissions by Artists Including Kapwani Kiwanga, Ali Cherri, and Nolan Oswald Dennis
ArtReview
Sophie van Well Groeneveld, ‘John Berger: From Life’ by Tom Overton, Reviewed
The Boston Globe
Mark Feeney, At the MFA, bearing witness in black-and-white
The Brooklyn Rail
Adrian Dannatt, The Best (Hope For)
David Armitage, Kant in Van Diemen’s Land
Piper Delilah, Reverse Paranoia in a Bucket Full of Crabs
Liza Fior, A Mug Half Full
Valentine De Ganay, Saltus
Frieze
James Lawrence Slattery, Fierce Festival 2026: Rupture, Longing and Joy
Christian House, What Can Luciano Fabro Teach Us Now?
Matthew Rana, A Group Show Finds Magic in Deconstruction
Emily Steer, What Art Can Teach Us About Losing a Parent
The Guardian
Amy Fleming, Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting
Emma Brockes, Art is good for your health? Allow me a quick eyeroll | Emma Brockes
Charlotte Higgins, What did the Romans ever give Scotland? Heated floors, flashy sandals, sun gods – and a lot of nails
Interview by Chris Broughton, ‘I put a smoke bomb in a road cone and stuck it on my head’: Delton Barrett’s best photograph
Eddy Frankel, Can you tell a real Warhol from a fake? Four art exhibitions to see for free
Hyperallergic
Rhea Nayyar, Long-Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Goes to Auction
From the Editors, Doris Salcedo Traces the Shape of Memory
Anna Lee, Daniel Sikkema Sentenced to Life for Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
Anonymous Documenta 15 Artists, So You’ve Been Invited to Documenta 16. Here’s Our Advice.
Rhea Nayyar, The Prior Occupants of Westbeth Are Just Beyond Reach
Rhea Nayyar, France Opens War Crimes Investigation Into Israeli Airstrike That Killed Artist Ali Cherri’s Parents
Anna Lee, Mamdani’s Five Ballot Questions Pass, But Arts Groups Remain Skeptical
Lisa Yin Zhang, Miquel Navarro, Sculptor of Cities Real and Imagined, Dies at 81
Anna Lee, Claire Valdez Will Be Your Artist in Congress
Valentina Di Liscia, Doris Salcedo on Colombia’s Refusal to Forget
The New York Times
Deborah Solomon, Nara, Dreaming of a Lost Girlhood, Finds New Freedom in Color
Jameson Montgomery and David Chow, The Happiest Silkworms in Queens
Siddhartha Mitter, An Artist Who Won’t Avert Her Gaze From Violence
Observer
Elisa Carollo, The Art Market Is Doubling Down on the Gulf Despite the War With Iran
Daniel Grant, Buying Artwork Abroad Is Legal; Bringing It Home May Not Be
Dan Duray, Curator Anne Reeve On Trading the National Mall for the Hudson Valley
Puck
Marion Maneker, The Art of Influence: Derrick Adams’s “Black Joy”
The Wall Street Journal
J.S. Marcus, ‘Auguste Bartholdi: Liberty Enlightening the World’ Review: An American Icon in Paris
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