Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is How to Stay Alive as a Small Art Institution by Jenny Wu for ArtReview. Arts nonprofits struggle to balance fundraising with artistic independence and institutional growth.
The Art Newspaper
Louisa Buck, It’s a wrap: the art world implications of the EU’s new packaging regulations
Vivienne Chow, Christie’s achieves £219m in ‘steady, solid’ London sales
Gareth Harris, London exhibition throws stark light on tragedy in Gaza
Louisa Buck, Okiki Akinfe wins inaugural £30,000 emerging artist prize at Frieze London
Phin Jennings, Artists impacted by Stephen Friedman gallery closure out in force at Frieze London
Kabir Jhala and Melissa Gronlund, At Frieze London, some buyers are taking risks—others are taking their time
From the Editors, Frieze London Diary: pirate-turned-artist Johnny Depp heads to London, an authentic Boer war experience and fake news at the fair
Scarlet Cheng, New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art
Vincent Noce, Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says
Elizabeth Mistry, Mexican military retreats from plans to build enormous museum in a popular park
Ben Luke, David Clack and Aimee Dawson, A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast
Artforum
Ross Bleckner and Ryan Sullivan, Ross Bleckner: The Toad Chapters
From the Editors, Nature Morte Founder Peter Nagy, Champion of Contemporary Indian Art, Dead at 67
From the Editors, New York Gallery Salon 94 Expands to Paris
From the Editors, Getty Images Files for Bankruptcy
From the Editors, Le Large Opens Near Paris
From the Editors, 2027 Karachi Biennale Canceled Due To Regional Conflict
From the Editors, Artists “Freaking Out” Over Discontinued Sculpting Plaster
Artnet
Andrew Russeth, Louvre Museum Director Pleads for More Public Funding
Richard Whiddington, Christie’s Hauls In $289.4M at London Sales, Led by $41.8M Kandinsky
Jo Lawson-Tancred, $6.5M Jan Brueghel Sells at Frieze in London as Collectors Compete for Coveted Works
Richard Whiddington, Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Reemerges After Centuries
ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón, Collector’s Diary: Chang Osathanugrah Reflects on What It Means to See Art with Fresh Eyes After Years of Looking
Daniel Cassady, Christie’s London Sales Bring in $289 M., With Records for Bridget Riley and Liubov Popova
Tessa Solomon, As Diplomatic Tensions Persist, British Museum Chairman ‘Optimistic’ on Parthenon Marbles Deal
Maximilíano Durón, Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad, Shigeo Otake Joins White Cube, and More: Industry Moves for October 14, 2026
Leigh Anne Miller, Israel Returns 22 Looted Antiquities to Greece
Anne Doran, Monumental Statues of Ramses II Discovered in Egypt
Alex Greenberger, Frieze London Brings 400-Year-Old Paintings and Collectors in Their 20s
Maximilíano Durón, At Frieze, an Artist Project in the Fair’s Public Toilets Confronts the UK’s Ongoing Bathroom Wars
Maximilíano Durón, Salon 94 to Open Permanent Space in Paris During Art Basel
Andy Battaglia, Congressional Commission to Consider Adding Jewish Museum to Smithsonian Network
Alex Greenberger, Louvre Director Warns of ‘Disaster’ If Museum Does Not Receive Renovations
ArtReview
From the Editors, Portraits in Philanthropy: Grace Cheung
Ilaria Maria Sala, Inside Umberto Eco’s Library
From the Editors, Peter Nagy, artist and founder of Nature Morte, 1959–2026
From the Editors, Rubaiya Qatar 2026 announces full list of artists
EDITOR’S PICK - Jenny Wu, How to Stay Alive as a Small Art Institution: Jenny Wu speaks to various nonprofits about fundraising and the types of compromises that may come with it.
The Brooklyn Rail
Alfred Mac Adam, Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue
Jillian Russo, Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte
Avani Tandon Vieira, Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
Jasmine Weber, Dindga McCannon: Yesterday and Today
Financial Times
Kristina Foster, Six must-see shows in Paris this autumn
Jackie Wullschläger, Gustave Fayet’s art collection was the glory of Paris — now it dazzles again
Jennifer Higgie, [Woman] Painter credits unsung female heroes
Frieze
Sophie Mörner, Amanda Wilkinson and Ivana Cholakova, Amanda Wilkinson and Sophie Mörner on Supporting Queer Artists from Community to Market
From the Editors, Tate Acquires Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze
From the Editors, Valentine Wins the 2026 Frieze Stand Prize
Jamila Prowse, I Want an Exhibition I Can Hold in My Hands
From the Editors, What the CAS Collections Fund Acquired at Frieze London 2026
From the Editors, Arts Council Collection Fund Acquisitions at Frieze London 2026
From the Editors, Ella Fleck Wins the 2026 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award
The Guardian
Ben Eastham, Pope.L review – savage satire from Y-fronts-wearing trickster famed for gruelling ‘crawl’ across New York
Eddy Frankel, A tour around Amy Winehouse’s private junk: five free art exhibitions to see
Hanno Hauenstein, Her royal heilness: Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi
David Smith, ‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world
Charlotte Jansen, A dominatrix and her tightly bound client: Giada Ripa’s best photograph
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Seeing Like John Berger
Phillip Pyle, Why Pageant Is Suddenly All the Rage
Anna Lee, Tammy Nguyen’s New Opera Will Be the Coda to the Venice Biennale
Channelle Chevelle Russell, Who’s the Thief in Deana Lawson’s Photography?
Aaron Short, Red Hook Open Studios Rises From the Ashes
Olivia McEwan, Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds
Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: Do I Need an Agent?
Megan O’Grady, John Berger in His Own Bruised Time
The New York Times
Leila Sheridan, A Fresh Take on Rembrandt Is Coming to the Met, Then Heading to the Louvre
Holland Cotter, Chicano, Gay and Still Inspiring Connections
Kin Woo and Mari Maeda-Oboshi and Yuji Oboshi, The Thrillingly Intricate Art of Cut Paper
Jillian Steinhauer, The Painter the Art World Loves to Forget
Observer
Christa Terry, Subtitled NYC Is Carving Out a Third Path for New York’s Artists
The Wall Street Journal
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