Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Polymarket and Philosophy by Simon Denny for Artforum. Prediction markets are reshaping cultural value and perceptions of truth by prioritizing financial speculation over traditional art-world institutions.
The Art Newspaper
Lisa Movius, Malaysia’s contemporary art scene gains momentum with a new fair and nonprofit space
Aimee Dawson, Ditching the doom scroll: UK exhibition explores social media obsession and ways to break free
Senay Boztas, Dutch museum returns ancient vase to Sicily after research uncovers ‘problematic’ provenance
Mercedes Ezquiaga, Culture wars ramp up in Latin America as governments lurch to the right
Artforum
Alix Vernet, Alix Vernet on Poetry, Precious Moonlight, and Musician Moms
EDITOR’S PICK - Simon Denny, Polymarket and Philosophy: Simon Denny on the brave new cultural medium of speculation
From the Editors, Austrian Presidential Hopeful Vows To Repatriate Moctezuma’s Headdress To Mexico
From the Editors, Two Renoirs Returned, Six Apprehended in Theft at French Museum
From the Editors, Bangkok Art Biennale Announces Artists for 2026 Edition
From the Editors, Mary Deleary Appointed Director of Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
From the Editors, Van Gogh Museum Resolves Funding Dispute with Dutch Government
Artnet
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall Commission Is No Spectacle. Thank Goodness
Ben Davis, The Great Kelly Clarkson Wind-Up Bird Feud, Explained
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Echoes of Magritte Are Everywhere in London’s Galleries Right Now
Vittoria Benzine, Inside Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Cave of Clay and Sound
ARTnews
Alex Greenberger, Phillips to Sell Rare Amedeo Modigliani Sculpture for $35 M. During New York Sales
Anne Doran, Who Are the Most Faked Artists in History?
Andy Battaglia, Can Daniel Weiss Fix the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
Hikmat Mohammed, Marina Perez Simão Wants You to Meditate in Front of Her Paintings at Frieze London
Leigh Anne Miller, Christie’s to Sell Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Featured in Vogue Portrait by Lee Miller
Hikmat Mohammed, Frieze’s Kristell Chadé Discusses Why the Fair Has ‘Never Been About Adding Points on a Map’
Maximilíano Durón, Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris to Collaborate on Two-Part Exhibition Pairing Leonora Carrington and Cecilia Vicuña
Tessa Solomon, In Search of the Future, Artists Give New Life to Dead AI Models
ArtReview
Peter Brock, Hanna Hur: Between Thinking and Feeling
John Quin, The Story of British Antifascist Art
Alice Godwin, Anna Munk’s Cosmetic Still Lifes
The Brooklyn Rail
Ekin Erkan, Dustin Yellin: Politics of Eternity
David Ebony, David Černý: Artocalypsa
Annabel Keenan, Melissa Joseph: Casserole Culture
Ann McCoy, Claire Falkenstein: San Francisco, Paris, Rome
Jacob Patrick Brooks, Joseph Buckley: Chapeltown Road
Cultured
Isabella Bernstein, In London for Frieze? Here Are 12 Must-See Museum Shows Outside the Fair.
Financial Times
From the Editors, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock — a marriage that sustained and constrained
Jonathan Griffin, Robert Indiana was eclipsed by ‘Love’ — now he is being rediscovered
Family Style
Asha Salim, Arrivals and Departures
Frieze
Harriet Lloyd-Smith, The Best Shows to See in London During Frieze
The Guardian
Charlotte Jansen, Our Bodies Have Been Bridges review – riveting portraits and the story of the first woman on Earth
Jonathan Jones, Georg Baselitz: The Heroes review – astonishing paintings take a savage swipe at history
Christian House, Home is where the jellyfish glows: Finland finally warms to nature-loving modernist Alvar Aalto
Jonathan Jones, Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall review – hallelujah, it’s raining musical instruments!
Simone Walsh, A job that changed me: As a jeweller, I wanted to avoid sweatshops. Then I realised I’d built one for myself
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Vermeer the Immortal
Armando Pulido, The Trafficker Who Furnished the Museums of LA
Julia Curl, A Little Fantasy Goes a Long Way
Anna Lee, NYC to Provide Free Art Supplies to Grantees
Lauren Moya Ford, Finding Vermeer in Unexpected Places
Bryan Martin, When the Accessibility Conveyor Belt Jams
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel: Flor Khan
The Los Angeles Times
Jane Horowitz, At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is queen of the desert with two new shows
The New York Times
Steven Kurutz, White Paint. It’s Everywhere. She Hates It.
The New Yorker
Hilton Als, Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance
Observer
Megan Fox Kelly, Two Collections, Two Canons: What Andrew and Paul Mellon Built, One Generation Apart
Elisa Carollo, Gökhun Baltacı Paints the Psychic Weight of Memory
Puck
Marion Maneker, London Rising
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Sid Bass and his gallerist wife move to toss ex-partner’s $400 million suit
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Oona Sperr’s $400M lawsuit against Sid Bass and Althea Viafora Bass
Adam Schrader, Appeals by Dan Patrick and Dawn Buckingham freeze ex-Alamo chief’s lawsuit
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: Ex-Alamo chief Kate Rogers’ free speech lawsuit against Dan Patrick
Adam Schrader, Titanic artifacts company says it could run out of money within six months
Adam Schrader, Court Documents: R.M.S. Titanic Inc.’s appeal over the French Collection auction
Vogue
Amy Verner, At the Bourse de Commerce, Barbara Kruger Isn’t Mincing Words
Vulture
Stephanie Wambugu, Taryn Simon’s American Fiction
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