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 | Art does not function like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one? by Faustine Jean-Louis for The Art Newspaper. An economist explores the commodification of art and the market built around it.
Art in America
John Yau, A Once-in-a-Lifetime Look Into America’s Most-Storied Art Couple
Eugenie Brinkema, How Cringe Took Over Culture
The Art Newspaper
Dale Berning Sawa, As France is rocked by explosive protests, art school students have their say
Gareth Harris, British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests
EDITOR’S PICK - Faustine Jean-Louis, Comment | Art does not function like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one?: A commodity economist explains why the art market’s plumbing, its financial apparatus and its blind spots all look familiar—and why it enables fraudsters like Inigo Philbrick
J.S. Marcus, Hungarian art community takes stock of populist Orbán era’s enormous toll
Artforum
Harmon Siegel, Genre Mutation: Harmon Siegel on Spider-Noir
From the Editors, Philadelphia Jewish Museum Could Join Smithsonian Museum Network
From the Editors, Francesco Bonami Named Artistic Director Of Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture
From the Editors, Centre Pompidou’s Brazil Satellite Delayed Until 2029
From the Editors, François Pinault Plans Permanent Collection Exhibition at Venice Museum
Artnet
Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Wins Miami Beach Rent Cut After Threatening Vegas Move
Andrew Russeth, Protestors Block Entrance to the Louvre Following Nationwide Protests
Sonia Manalili, What London’s Sales Tell Us About the Market
Andrew Russeth, After Protests and Riots, Art Basel Readies Paris Show
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies
Emi Eleode, The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront
Gameli Hamelo, Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana
Anindo Sen, Eight Galleries in India You Should Know
Financial Times
From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now
Tim Smith-Laing, One weekend, 1,400 works — how much art can a person absorb?
Edwin Heathcote, How artists have imagined the end of civilisations
Enuma Okoro, Help — four letters that require attention
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review – sublime wonders from the Great Wave to that heroic, eternal peak
Harriet Gibsone, Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones looks back: ‘Men like seeing me be emotional’
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, The Buffalo Haunts America
Hakim Bishara, Diaries of a Primitive Man
Hrag Vartanian, Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America
Dan Schindel, Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Gregory Volk, Tanya Merrill’s Animal Instinct
Anna Lee, This Ron DeSantis Statue Can’t Take the Heat
Imran Siddiquee, Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”
Rhea Nayyar, Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt
The Los Angeles Times
Siran Babayan, These brothers founded a gallery after the Watts rebellion and arts in L.A. would never be the same
The New York Times
Eric Lipton, 25 Years After the World Trade Center Fell, an Architect’s Legacy Is Still Being Written
Brett Sokol, Art Basel Las Vegas? The Fight Over Miami Beach’s Fair
Will Heinrich, Blurring the Line Between 3 Dimensions and 2
Observer
Christa Terry, 72 Hours of Art in Cincinnati
Puck
Marion Maneker, Peter Simon Stories & The Popova Surprise
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Protesters urge Museum of Tolerance to address Gaza after unanswered letters
Adam Schrader, Senko Ikenobo offers prayer arrangement for NYC ikebana chapter’s 40th anniversary
Adam Schrader, Fiber artist who rarely exhibits brings four decades of handmade books to the Michener
Adam Schrader, Janet Biggs chases total solar eclipses in search of her late mother
Adam Schrader, Peter Kuper’s monarchs fly across American Museum of Natural History corridor
Vanity Fair
Nate Freeman, The Marfa Mythos
Vulture
Jerry Saltz, New Show, Same Lichtenstein
The Wall Street Journal
Brian P. Kelly, ‘Roy Lichtenstein: Like New’ Review: Paean to a Pop Artist at the Whitney
Michael J. Hatch, ‘China Institute Gallery at 60, 1966–2026’ Review: A Self-Reflective Survey
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