Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Democracy Dies in Data: Why Use AI in Museums? by Sonja Drimmer for Art in America. The article argues that AI in museums may serve Big Tech’s interests more than it actually improves public access to art.
Art in America
Eliza Goodpasture, Tate Britain’s ’90s Show Is All Scene, No Substance
EDITOR’S PICK - Sonja Drimmer, Democracy Dies in Data: Why Use AI in Museums?: And what do AI companies want from art museums?
The Art Newspaper
Sarah Cascone, New Miami art space to champion photography, film and video
Ben Luke, Alexander Morrison, David Clack, Sydney Powerhouse scandal, heritage destruction in Lebanon, Dan Flavin—podcast
Martin Bailey, Budapest exhibition explores Van Gogh and Gauguin’s artistic excursion to Montpellier
Gabriella Angeleti, Ex-husband of Brent Sikkema sentenced to life in prison over murder-for-hire killing
Vincent Noce, French authorities investigate claim of fraud over Picasso plates and medallions on sale
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, ICA Miami selects architect to renovate recently acquired building
Artforum
From the Editors, $3 Million Georgia O’Keeffe Found Under Pile of Coats Heads to Auction
From the Editors, After Galliano Disaster, Met Raises Eyebrows with Replacement Costume Institute Show
From the Editors, Museum Wiesbaden to Return Ten Colonial-Era Skulls to Indonesia
From the Editors, Ade Omotosho Named Associate Curator at Studio Museum of Harlem
From the Editors, China Tops List of World’s Most Visited Museums in 2025
From the Editors, Cleaning of Sistine Chapel Fresco Sheds Light on Michelangelo’s Technique
From the Editors, Daniel Sikkema Handed Life Sentence for Murder of Gallerist Brent Sikkema
From the Editors, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces 2026 Winners of Its $100,000+ Awards for Artists
Artnet
Sonia Manalili, Iris van Herpen Is Fashioning a New Reality
Andrew Russeth, Yoshitomo Nara’s Cartoon Girls Are Back in New York, Armed and Somewhat Dangerous
Vittoria Benzine, Lost Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Turns Up in Closet, Heads to Auction
Min Chen, Following Galliano Fiasco, the Met Goes Pedestrian for Costume Institute Show
Kenny Schachter, The Schach Is Back! Kenny Dishes on Ken Griffin’s $250M Leonardo, a Dealer Detained, and More
Jo Lawson-Tancred, How Dealers Are Reviving Forgotten Women Surrealists
Min Chen, The Strange Saga of Wu-Tang Clan’s Elusive $4M Album Is Now a Documentary
ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón, 2028 Whitney Biennial to Be Curated by Meg Onli and Zack Winokur
Hikmat Mohammed, Here’s How Major Galleries’ UK Operations Performed in 2025
Tessa Solomon, Sweden Returns Benin Bronze Trove to Nigeria, Indigenous Remains to Bolivia
Tessa Solomon, Trump Convenes Final Review for Triumphal Arch, Seeks Immediate Start on Construction
Brian Boucher, Paris Court Orders Sotheby’s to Return Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting to Jewish Heirs
Anne Doran, Archaeologists Discover Vast Ice Age Cave Art Hiding in Plain Sight
Harrison Jacobs, Georgia O’Keeffe Painting Found in Closet After 40 Years Heads to Christie’s With $ 3 M. Est.
Brian Boucher, Artist Pablo Helguera Takes the Helm at New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics Amid an Electoral Earthquake
Brian Boucher, Two More Vienna Galleries Close, Citing ‘No New Collectors’ and ‘Challenging’ Financial Landscape
Andy Battaglia, Antic Trailer Released for The Gallerist, Natalie Portman-Starring Art World Satire
Hikmat Mohammed, Rana Hadid on Taking the Zaha Hadid Foundation Into the Future
Alex Greenberger, Stolen Picasso Prints Found Under Pile of Clothes in French Riviera Apartment
Hikmat Mohammed, A Rare Albrecht Altdorfer Painting Heads to Sotheby’s for $6.67 M.
Alex Greenberger, After Galliano Firestorm, Met Plans New Costume Institute Exhibition Unlikely to Offend Anyone
ArtReview
ArtReview, Portraits in Philanthropy: Sam Seungho Park
Jenny Wu, John Berger In The Pits
The Brooklyn Rail
Rachel Kushner, Three Poems
Sage Mehta, Sugar Mountain
Laura Joy Pieters, Spinning Through The Darkness
Roc Sandford, Smiling in the Dark
Financial Times
Christina Ohly Evans, Alexander SC Rower talks taste
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Simple nudes, priceless fakes and riches from an emperor’s palace – the week in art
Joanna Ruck, Week in wildlife: an autumnal deer, golden jackals and an oily-kneed beetle
Dee Jefferson, Powerhouse Parramatta opens this weekend – and it’s dazzling inside and out
Amy Fleming, Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Met Gala’s New Theme Is So Basic
Melissa Holbrook Pierson, It’s Time to Talk About Classism in the Art World
Anna Lee, Met Gala’s New Theme Is the Biggest Recession Indicator Yet
Anna Lee, MFA Boston to Allow Visitors to Watch Live Conservation of Dutch Painting
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, The Glimchers Can’t Keep Up the Pace
Aruna D’Souza, At MoMA, Brancusi Is Lost in Space
The New York Times
Marc Davis, She Commands the Sunken Titanic, From 1,000 Miles Away
Derrick Bryson Taylor and Leila Sheridan, Lucien Smith, Art-World Star, Died From Accidental Drug Overdose
Zachary Small, Kehinde Wiley Will Debut New Art Series
Observer
D. Scott Patria, Arteba Was Rescheduled, Realigned and Refreshed—But Was It Ready?
Elisa Carollo, Art Week Tokyo’s Most Dynamic Event Is Tucked into the Pods of a Capsule Hotel
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Trump’s arch clears planning panel as Democrats prepare to take Congress
Adam Schrader, Amid partisan arts disputes, Texas’ new Democratic governor will pick university regents
Adam Schrader, Polish government covers most of Warsaw gallery’s Collectible New York budget
Adam Schrader, Brooklyn developer’s game asks players to date and map old New York photos
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