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 | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise by Bendor Grosvenor for The Art Newspaper. Grosvenor warns that the “Great Art Transfer” is a marketing ploy and that art should be bought for enjoyment, not investment.
The Art Newspaper
Ben Luke, ‘I see the Turbine Hall as a sound vessel’: artist Tarek Atoui on his Tate Modern commission
Gareth Harris, Pope Leo XIV addresses international museum directors at the Vatican
Carlie Porterfield, A potentially record-breaking Mondrian and a recently restituted Kandinsky painting: our pick of the October auctions
EDITOR’S PICK - Bendor Grosvenor, Comment | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise: A forecast generational shift in art ownership is fuelling a new sales pitch—but buying art as an investment remains a gamble
Artforum
Theo Belci, From the Archive: Slavoj Žižek and the Body Politic
Barry Shwabsky, How Rafael Ferrer Skewered the Art World
Artnet
Margaret Carrigan, Pope Leo Meets With Major Museum Leaders
Ben Davis, Arthur Jafa Is a Major Minor Artist
Sonia Manalili, Clare McAndrew on How to Measure the Art Market
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Two Stolen Renoirs Worth $10M Recovered in France
Katya Kazakina, Why This Avery Singer Painting Just Sold at a 91 Percent Loss
Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Clare McAndrew on How to Measure the Art Market
Sayoko Teitelbaum, Where the Art World Eats, Sleeps, and Shops in London During Frieze
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Could This Victorian Snap Be History’s Earliest Mirror Selfie?
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sotheby’s Nabs $100M Ted and Ruth Baum Collection
ARTnews
Anne Doran, The Most Expensive Works by Gustav Klimt Sold at Auction
Hikmat Mohammed, Alex Margo Arden Gets Up Close and Personal With Amy Winehouse’s Items for an Exhibition in London
Leigh Anne Miller, Arlington County Board Files Lawsuit to Stop Construction of Trump’s Triumphal Arch
Hikmat Mohammed, Two Renoir Paintings Worth $10.5 M. Recovered After Theft
Hikmat Mohammed, A Winston Churchill Painting Gifted to His Daughter Lands at Christie’s
Maximilíano Durón, Guadalupe Maravilla to Stage Major Installation at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine This December
Maximilíano Durón, Brussels Gallery Super Dakota to Close After 15 Years
Andy Battaglia, With an $18 M. Price Tag, 24-Karat ‘Fancy Intense Pink’ Diamond Ring Heads to Auction at Christie’s Geneva
Hikmat Mohammed, Julianne Moore’s West Village Home Features Work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong
ArtReview
Nirmala Devi, ‘Scene City’ by Róisín Tapponi, Reviewed
Shaunak Mahbubani, Salman Toor’s Laws of Attraction
The Brooklyn Rail
Adriana Furlong, Selena Kimball: Ice-blink
Michael Corris, Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest
Maisie Molot, Herman Cherry: Rivers From 30,000 Feet
Saul Ostrow, Valerio Adami: Alice in the Land of Violence
Tony Bluestone, Mala Iqbal: Among Us
Financial Times
From the Editors, Tarek Atoui wants Turbine Hall visitors to hear his art — and feel the sound
Prune Nourry, How Prune Nourry resurrected Paris’s forgotten female artists
David Pilling, He’s been named the most powerful artist in the world. What drives Ibrahim Mahama?
From the Editors, Our eternal quest to make sense of the night sky
From the Editors, Artist Thomas Houseago: ‘This house was a rainbow after the storm’
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, Prem Sahib: Chamber review – master of unease twists the city into terror and pleasure
Eddy Frankel, Gabrielle Goliath: Elegy review – devastating lament is a furious, single-note call to action
Kim Willsher, Chagall or Lenepveu or both? Row over Paris opera house dome enters legal arena
Chloe Kerleroux, ‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay
Alex Needham, Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners
Dale Berning Sawa, ‘Enough of this suffering!’ Joana Vasconcelos on why she is fed up with women’s art defined by pain
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Raven Chacon’s Echoes on Park Avenue
Hakim Bishara, Long Live Generation 6-7
Phillip Pyle, Raven Chacon Sounds the History of the Land
Chinyere Erondu, Truman Lowe Listens to the Water
Rhea Nayyar, 7 New York Exhibitions That Embody Indigenous Survivance
Anna Lee, Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art to Open Katonah Space in November
Silvia Benedetti, A Felix Gonzalez-Torres Exhibition Forgets What He Was Fighting For
The Los Angeles Times
Jane Horowitz, The new Hammer Museum director is on a mission to create a Westside Arts District
Observer
Noah Berlatsky, For Jonathan David Katz, the Story of American Art Is a Queer One
Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at New York Film Festival: Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Transcript: Cold Take Ep. 15 on the NSA’s bin Laden exhibit, Leon Black and a visa denial
Adam Schrader, Appeals court voids Manhattan DA’s seizure of Art Institute of Chicago’s Schiele
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Appeals court decision in Art Institute of Chicago Schiele case
Adam Schrader, Cagnes-sur-Mer mayor says stolen Renoir paintings recovered, six arrested
Adam Schrader, Super Dakota founder closes Brussels gallery, launches art-and-gaming institute
Adam Schrader, U.S. grant pays to restore Hamilton House on Nevis, add Constance Baker Motley exhibit
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