Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is These 18 Artists Are Dominating U.S. Museums Right Now by Ben Davis for Artnet. Jeffrey Gibson and Kara Walker lead Davis’s U.S. museum artist rankings, and there has been continued interest in themes of race, heritage, identity, and nature.
The Art Newspaper
Eileen Kinsella, Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction
Vivienne Becker, ‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co
Elena Goukassian, Exhibition at New York’s Met examines how Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock’s relationship enriched their art
Anzhela Khachaturova, Nine Swiss museums to investigate provenance of thousands of objects from Cameroon
Martin Bailey, The story behind the record-price Van Gogh up for auction in November
Ben Luke, David Clack, Alexander Morrison, Renoir and Love in London, political storm around Kanal in Brussels, Ronald Moody—podcast
Senay Boztas, Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art
Osman Can Yerebakan, Contemporary Istanbul founder planning new fair on city’s Asian side
Hannah Sage Kay, Latest edition of Portland triennial offers powerful projects but lacks a cohesive theme
Hadani Ditmars, The Japanese photographer who turned an empathetic eye on rural communities of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Strongest El Niño in decades threatens Peru’s adobe heritage
Artforum
From the Editors, Calder’s Mountains And Clouds Reunited in Capitol Hill
From the Editors, Virginia Anderson Named Senior Curator of American Art At The National Gallery Of Art
From the Editors, Blind Man Sues Over Lack of Audio Tours for Bayeux Tapestry
From the Editors, Bronner Family of Collectors Awarded Art Cologne Prize
Artnet
Andrew Russeth, Epic Animated Opera by Alex Da Corte Will Premiere in Buffalo
Sonia Manalili, The Past, Present, and Future (??) of Website Art
EDITOR’S PICK - Ben Davis, These 18 Artists Are Dominating U.S. Museums Right Now: Here is the Museum Artist List for September 2026.
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Colombia’s Artbo Fair Found Some Upsides to Downsizing
Richard Whiddington, Jackson Pollock’s West Village Loft Is Up for Sale
Aaina Bhargava, Tokyo Rush! Basel Social Club Founders Detail Japanese Debut
Min Chen, Marina Abramović Is Turning 80 and Still Won’t Quit: ‘Working Makes My Day’
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, After 30 Years, Fondation Beyeler Enters Its Next Chapter With a $144.9 M. Peter Zumthor–Designed Expansion
Leigh Anne Miller, After Resignation of Advisory Council, American Institute of Architects Weigh in on Trump’s Arch
Tessa Solomon, Free Entry to UK National Museums Will Continue, Government Says
Anne Doran, A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a UK Salvage Yard
Daniel Cassady, Kavi Gupta Gallery Hit With Restraining Order Amid $2 M. Art Dispute
Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s To Sell Artworks from Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Funder George Allen Weiss
Francesca Aton, BTS Star RM Will Share His Art Collection in New SFMOMA Exhibition
Andy Battaglia, Luxury Accessories Brand Eittem Launches Collaborative Line with Frick Collection in New York
Anne Doran, Rare Cache of Ancient Roman Sculptures Discovered at Chartres
Hikmat Mohammed, Artists for Climate Action Returns for Frieze Week With Christie’s Evening Auction
Francesca Aton, Iraqi Archaeologists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over State Corruption
ArtReview
Alexander Harding, Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby’s Feed Logic
Owen Hatherley, Strange England: When Beryl Cook Went to Bicester Village
Beatrice Loayza, Does ‘Hope’ Mean Anything at All?
Max Crosbie-Jones, Pattani Biennale 2026 Review: A Hopeful Aftertaste
Clive Chijioke Nwonka, What Happened to Hackney Wick?
John Christopher Vaughan, Mary McIntyre and Robert Anderson’s Found Image Fandom
The Brooklyn Rail
Natalia Gierowska, The End of (Art) History?
Shumon Basar, The Endcore of History
Tan Ping, A Moment is Eternity
Azu Nwagbogu, We Were Never at the End
Sena Scully, The End of War
Financial Times
Jo Ellison, Sam Taylor-Johnson talks taste
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Ravishing Renoir, cool Britannia and mighty Aphrodite – the week in art
Oliver Wainwright, ‘Starchitects go home’: what’s the truth behind Albania’s astonishing building boom?
Hanaa Hammad in Cairo, Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin
Joanna Ruck, The week in wildlife: a rescued orangutan, the chonkiest bear and a barn owl’s triumph
Anna White, Homes for sale in landmark towers in England and Scotland – in pictures
Kim Willsher in Paris, Van Gogh to go on display before sale of ‘almost mythical’ private collection
Ben Eastham, Balraj Khanna: Lines of Flight review – plenty of dazzle, but where is the darkness?
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, The Resistance Is Not Dead
Valentina Di Liscia, Cyra Levenson to Lead Yaddo Artist Residency
Rhea Nayyar, Artists Honor Immigrants in Monuments Across New Jersey
Anna Lee, Fall of Freedom Returns With Hundreds of Anti-Authoritarian Art Actions
Brian Goldstein, The Overlooked Black Architect Who Shaped a Landmark Smithsonian Museum
Rebecca Schiffman, Rebecca Ness Stakes Her Claim to Art History
From the Editors, Opportunities in October 2026
Anna Lee, Alice Neel’s McCarthy-Era Trial Drawings Go to Auction
Anna Lee, New Book Chronicles Studio Museum in Harlem’s 58-Year History
The Los Angeles Times
Laura Zornosa, ‘Asco: Without Permission’ heralds the next generation of L.A. Chicano artists
The New York Times
Travis Diehl, Art Gallery Shows to See in October
Observer
Daniel Grant, Experts On How to Mitigate the Ethical and Environmental Impacts of Collecting Art
Georges Berges, Two Dealers on West Broadway: A History
Daniel Grant, Institutions Are Increasingly Rethinking Public Art Conservation With Climate Extremes in Mind
Alexander Bradford, The Carbon Cost of Culture: How the Art World Is Confronting Its Shipping Emissions
Elisa Carollo, Bernardo Paz Is Extending Instituto Inhotim’s Legacy With a New Museum for Art and Nature
Iman Sultan, For Younger Collectors, Fashion Is the New Fine Art
Elisa Carollo, Antonio Romero’s Paintings Are Reflections of the Shadows of Power
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Auburn lab remakes Baroque palace art with a $500 printer and free A.I. trials
Whitehot
Esme Graham, Meghann Stephenson: Queen of the Neighborhood!
Noah Becker, Painter Karen Iglehart is Having a Moment
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