Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is As Big Money Flees London’s Art Scene, Young Galleries Sharpen Their Edge by Scott Reyburn and Sam Bush for The New York Times. Frieze London highlights the resilience of the city’s art scene, with emerging galleries and affordable works helping sustain the market despite declining sales and competition from Paris.
The Art Newspaper
Martin Bailey, Revealed: How Vincent van Gogh’s brother Theo gave Monet his first exhibition in London
Sophia Kishkovsky, US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture
Vivienne Chow, De Kooning sets European record but still falls flat at muted Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale
Gareth Harris, François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi
Ben Luke, David Clack and Alexander Morrison, Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco di Giorgio—podcast
José da Silva, ‘I’ve learnt I can enjoy a work without having to acquire it’: Dasha Shenkman on her approach to art collecting
Annabel Keenan, Slow down and look: the simple complexity of Robert Ryman is revealed in Barbican exhibition
Dale Berning Sawa, ‘Even an ugly thistle can be so beautiful’: painter Sabine Moritz on how nature informs her work
Rachel Kubrick, In pictures: our pick of London’s Minor Attractions fair
J. Cabelle Ahn, At museums across London, Old Masters cuddle up to the contemporary—what makes this curatorial approach so appealing?
From the Editors, Frieze London Diary: fairgoers offered ‘15 minutes of fame’, ferocious Lego, and Queen Victoria as you have never seen her
Louisa Buck, Modernists brought into the mix at 1-54 Contemporary African art fair
Artforum
From the Editors, Christie’s London Sales Total $289 Million
From the Editors, Unseen for Centuries, Newly Discovered Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction
From the Editors, Rubaiya Qatar Announces Artists for Inaugural Edition
Katia Porro, An endless string of commas: the 18th Lyon Biennale
From the Editors, Ramses II Statues Found Buried in Egyptian Village
From the Editors, Danh Võ and Yohji Yamamoto Win 2026 Isamu Noguchi Award
Artnet
Vittoria Benzine, Sotheby’s Notches $61M at London Contemporary Sale, Buoyed by $12.9M de Kooning
Sonia Manalili, Inside the Scrappy SoHo Gallery That Made Art History in the Aughts
Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel’s Karim Crippa Dishes on Paris
Min Chen, Phillips Kicks Off Its London Sales With $7.6M Richter, $2.1M Banksy
Delia Harrington, At SFMOMA, K-Pop Star RM Is Curating His Own Way
ARTnews
Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De Kooning
Daniel Cassady, Dino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species
Hikmat Mohammed, Minor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging Galleries and Artists
Tessa Solomon, A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before
Tessa Solomon, A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations
Daniel Cassady, Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in Private Hands
Andy Battaglia, Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported
Devorah Lauter, French Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum
Alex Greenberger, Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London
Maximilíano Durón, FOG Design+Art Fair Names 76 Exhibitors for 2027 Edition, With Revised Layout
ArtReview
From the Editors, ‘War conditions’ see Karachi Biennale cancelled
The Boston Globe
Mark Feeney, At the Danforth, looking out, looking in, and looking in between
Financial Times
James Hall, The perfect artist’s studio? An attic in Paris
Alice Cavanagh, Antoine Billore – the cheekiest boy in antiques
Frieze
Brenda Lozano, A Group Show in Mexico City Scours the Globe for God
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, Sweet nothings, urinal cakes and headless dogs: 10 artworks worth seeing at Frieze
Jonathan Jones, Hokusai on high, Bruges goes Bosch and Tate’s Turbine Hall has a blast – the week in art
Eddy Frankel, Issy Wood: Self-Portraits review – suffocatingly revealing works from the ultimate zillennial painter
Xiaoying You, Like dinosaur eggs in the sand: the pterosaur museum built to thrive in the Gobi desert
Jonathan Jones, Frieze review – you’ll see more avant garde wonders in the Bake Off tent
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, The “Renegade Housewife” of Pop Art
Valentina Di Liscia, Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga Selected for Met Museum Commissions
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, 12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art
Anna Lee, WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory
Isabella Segalovich, The 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Behind an Iconic Lichtenstein Billboard
Naomi Polonsky, Ah, the Many Smells of Frieze London
John Yau, Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art
Rhea Nayyar, Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition
Rhea Nayyar, Jazmine Hayes Charts Community Displacement, Resilience in Brownsville Art Commission
The New York Times
Rebecca L. Davis, A Paris Museum That’s Wild and a ‘Little Weird’
Arthur Lubow, Kashmir’s Beauty and Violence Captured in an Exquisite Debut at MoMA
EDITOR’S PICK - Scott Reyburn and Sam Bush, As Big Money Flees London’s Art Scene, Young Galleries Sharpen Their Edge: Tax reforms and Paris’s rise have taken a toll. But low-budget, risk-taking dealers are still creating buzz at the Frieze London fair and beyond.
Elaine Sciolino, In His Montmartre Atelier, a Self-Made, 91-Year-Old Artist Paints On
Will Higginbotham, The Artist Boz Deseo Garden and the Afterlife of the Slave Trade
Dawn Chan, Jillian Steinhauer and Travis Diehl, Art Gallery Shows to See in October
Keridwen Cornelius, At Art Basel Paris and Beyond, Celebrating 200 Years of Photography
Farah Nayeri, What Else to Check Out During Art Basel Paris
Tina Isaac-Goizé, For Contemporary Art, the Large Center Is a Big Deal
The New Yorker
Zachary Fine, The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
Observer
Elisa Carollo, Yan Du’s YDP Brings a New Model of Art Patronage to London
Elisa Carollo, At Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Rediscoveries Are Giving the Market New Momentum
Elisa Carollo, In “Casserole Culture,” Melissa Joseph Redraws the Geography of Home
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Getty Villa closes Friday as Bryson Fire burns in Malibu hills
Adam Schrader, Microsoft releases a free font drawn from Michelangelo’s handwriting
Adam Schrader, Texas Tech calls course review records unfinished drafts, tells court the review is complete
Adam Schrader, Records: Texas Tech course review records ruling and federal lawsuit exhibits
Adam Schrader, Dino Mommy, a self-funded paleontologist, fights to reopen Philadelphia museum
The Wall Street Journal
Kelly Crow, The Great Louvre Robbery Was Just the Start. It’s Been the Year of the Heist.
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