Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Artists Rights Society Launches Partnership with Samsung to License Artworks on Digital Displays by Maximilíano Durón for ARTnews. Artists Rights Society is partnering with Samsung Art Store to license works by its represented artists and creating a new revenue stream for artists and estates.
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Blind man sues British Museum over lack of Bayeux Tapestry audio description
Senay Boztas, Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening
Gareth Harris, Iván Argote—the artist behind the infamous pigeon sculpture for New York’s High Line—to debut permanent installation in Italy
Carlie Porterfield, New York’s Split Level art fair returns to Madison Avenue design showroom for second edition
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Fifth edition of Mexico’s Guadalajara Art Week reaffirms city’s status as a cultural destination
Gabriella Angeleti, Inadequate public funding may be the biggest threat facing world heritage, study finds
Lise Alves, São Paulo’s Museu de Arte Moderna reopens after two-year renovation
Alexander Morrison, ‘He said the secret to a happy life is attention to the details’: William Morris Gallery reopens after major rehang and restoration
Annabel Keenan, ‘Humour makes us Cree, makes us human’: Kent Monkman’s first public sculpture is a condominium for beavers on Toronto’s waterfront
Mark Asch, For two artists in Iran, collecting and archiving are forms of resistance
Elena Goukassian, Toledo Museum of Art acquires landmark 19th-century photographic series
Artforum
Caroline Wallis, Menace in Venice: Tina M. Campt on Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince’s Breakout Show
Simon Denny, Polymarket and Philosophy
Yvonne Rainer, Yvonne Rainer on Simone Forti
Megan Metcalf, Megan Metcalf Remembers Simone Forti
Jason Underhill, Jason Underhill on Simone Forti
Artnet
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Calder’s Final Work Has Finally Been Restored. The Price: $12M
Margaret Carrigan, How Lucy Dodd Turned Scottish Peat Into Paint for Her Darkest Works Yet
Richard Whiddington, Marble Sculpture by Baroque Master Found at U.K. Salvage Yard
Richard Whiddington, Rafael Ferrer, Restless Artist Who Defied Categorization, Dies at 93
ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón, Lisson Gallery and Gomide & Co. Now Represent Mira Schendel Estate, DMA Board Elects New Chair, and More: Industry Moves for October 1, 2026.
Maximilíano Durón, Strong Hong Kong Evening Sales, Totaling a Combined $184.6 M., Mask Key Hurdles in Asia’s Art Market
Maximilíano Durón, Brazil’s Inhotim Marks 20 Years and Looks to a Future Beyond Its Founder
Leigh Anne Miller, UK’s Ashmolean Museum Joins Forces with Samdani Art Foundation to Build Bangladeshi Art Collection
Brian Boucher, Art Collector Ken Griffin Gives $3 B., the Largest Donation in the History of Higher Education, to Carnegie Mellon For a Miami Campus
Francesca Aton, Louis Vuitton Collaborates with Keith Haring Foundation for its Latest Artycapucines Handbag Collection
EDITOR’S PICK - Maximilíano Durón, Artists Rights Society Launches Partnership with Samsung to License Artworks on Digital Displays: The first artist to be featured is LeRoy Neiman, with subscribers having access to 33 of his works.
Alex Greenberger, Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages
Hikmat Mohammed, Blind Man Sues the British Museum Over Lack of Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tours
Andy Battaglia, Bon Iver to Release 10th-Anniversary Edition of Album with Elaborate Artwork Elucidated
Tessa Solomon, After Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opening, Stephanie Rosenthal Will Join Rotterdam Museum as Artistic Director
Devorah Lauter, Rafael Ferrer, Puerto Rican Musician-Turned-Artist, Has Died at 93
ArtReview
Alexander Leissle, Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things
The Boston Globe
Malcolm Gay, MFA names new chair for Art of the Americas
Mark Feeney, At the Griffin, offering tender loving photographic care
The Brooklyn Rail
Phong H. Bui, RITA ACKERMANN
Andrew Paul Woolbright, ANDREA BOWERS
Amanda Millet-Sorsa, DEBORAH BUCK
Dan Cameron, NATE LOWMAN
Emanuele Coccia, Cities Made of Language
Financial Times
From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now
Frieze
The Guardian
Kim Willsher in Paris, Van Gogh to go on display before sale of ‘almost mythical’ private collection
Ben Eastham, Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
Veronica Esposito, ‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations
Chris Broughton, ‘The Savage Skulls were the most dangerous gang in the Bronx’: Jean-Pierre Laffont’s best photograph
Eddy Frankel, Explosions of colour, cold war paranoia and hyper-erotic intimacy: five free shows to see
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, The Art Tarot Predicts a Fateful Fall
Rhea Nayyar, Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Two Jars to David Drake’s Descendants
Valentina Di Liscia, A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous
John Yau, Paint Isn’t Just Paint at the New York Studio School
Phillip Pyle, A New Exhibition Explores Edmonia Lewis’s Montana Connection
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Rafael Ferrer, Aracy Amaral, and Liang Shaoji
Julia Curl, Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Solitary Gaze
Madeleine Seidel, The Agony and Ecstasy of Johanna Hedva
Gautami Reddy, How to Write About an Indian Artist for Western Readers
AX Mina, Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Fall Equinox
The Los Angeles Times
Sam Lubell, Commentary: As Lucas Museum cordons off main courtyard, a public space inches toward gated compound
Christine Terrisse, RM of BTS, museum curator? He is now.
The New York Times
Ralph Blumenthal, Jamie Wyeth, Meet Uncle Winslow
Olivia Diaz, Calder Sculpture ‘Mountains and Clouds’ Is Restored in Senate Office
Laura Cappelle, 20 Years Later, Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ Is Back at Versailles
Observer
Mary Gregory, Five Artists Who Treat the Earth as Both Medium and Beneficiary
Elisa Carollo, Toronto’s Lassonde Art Trail Reimagines Public Art as Part of a Healthier Urban Ecosystem
Elisa Carollo, Freeman’s New CEO Muys Snijders Is Betting on Regional Roots and a Wider Reach
Elisa Carollo, Sotheby’s Lands the $450 Million Blaquier Collection, Led by a $180M Van Gogh
Saleah Blancaflor, Josh Kushner Valued A24 at $3.5 Billion. Dior and Google Just Proved Him Right.
T Magazine
Susan Dominus, ‘Take These Pictures and Run’
The Wall Street Journal
Angelica Hankins, ‘Collection and Translation: Thomas Jefferson in Southern France’ Review: A Founder’s Education Abroad
Brian P. Kelly, Teresa Margolles Dissects Tragedy at MoMA PS1
Lance Esplund, ‘The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans’ Review: Creative Abundance at the Whitney
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