Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is 5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection by Annika Svendsen Finne for ARTnews. Annika Svendsen Finne offers tips for protecting art collections through preventive care, documentation, and thoughtful restoration.
The Art Newspaper
Annabel Keenan, Found objects and fall-outs: a new book reveals new sides to Donald Judd and his work
Joe Ware, Major London museums join forces for new South Asian arts festival
Catherine Hickley, Legal troubles and family feud keep Klimt portrait off the market
Debika Ray, What does an Old Master smell like? Meet the perfumer commissioned by Sotheby’s
Louis Shadwick, All six of Edward Hopper’s early oils, long thought to be original works, revealed to be copies
Anna Brady, Hilma af Klint painting could break artist’s record next month in Stockholm
From the Editors, Before banana fame, Maurizio Cattelan made ends meet delivering letters—and sperm
From the Editors, Jewellers Buccellati create collection inspired by Venetian lace-making
Maev Kennedy, Exhibition highlights overlooked William Morris collection and his collaborations with women makers
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
Artforum
From the Editors, Abu Dhabi Reveals Plans For A New Cultural District Ahead Of Frieze Art Fair
From the Editors, Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Francis Bacon Awards
From the Editors, Art Basel Will Remain in Miami Beach After Threatening to Decamp to Vegas
From the Editors, British Museum to Receive $40 Million Gift for Masterplan Project
From the Editors, Protesters in France Block Entrance to Louvre
From the Editors, Visitor Dies in Freak Accident at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
Alex Jovanovich, From the Archive: Anne Carson on Sophie Calle
Artnet
Richard Whiddington, Rare Flock of Lalanne Sheep Could Round Up $5M at Auction
Caroline Goldstein, Unseen Picassos Could Fetch $42M at Auction
Katya Kazakina, Art Meets Couture in a Dazzling Valentino and Ewa Juszkiewicz Exhibition
Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Wins Miami Beach Rent Cut After Threatening Vegas Move
ARTnews
Harrison Jacobs, Collector Libbie Mugrabi Faces New Legal Battle Over 1982 Basquiat to Satisfy $2.3 M. Judgment
EDITOR’S PICK - Annika Svendsen Finne, 5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection: A conservation studio offers guidance for caring for your collection.
Maximilíano Durón, Fondation Louis Vuitton Reunites Hundreds of Masterpieces Once Owned by One France’s Most Important, Though Now Forgotten, Collectors
Alex Greenberger, Prairie, Chicago Gallery That Put Conceptualism Ahead of Commercialism, Closes After Nearly a Decade
Leigh Anne Miller, Bayeux Tapestry Display to Change Upon Return to Normandy Next Year
Andy Battaglia, Protests Erupt Over Removal of LGBTQ and Feminist Objects at National Museum of Colombia
Brian Boucher, New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years
Tessa Solomon, Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem
Hikmat Mohammed, Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards
Brian Boucher, Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas
Maximilíano Durón, An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map
Devorah Lauter, Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France
ArtReview
From the Editors, The Interview: Sheila Hicks
From the Editors, Portraits in Philanthropy: Vignesh Sundaresan
From the Editors, Student protests close Louvre
Financial Times
Melanie Gerlis, A lively Frieze Week has London gallerists dreaming of a Brexit U-turn
Frieze
Andrew Hodgson, The Best Exhibitions to See in Paris
Zoë Hopkins, Beyond the Limits of Representation at the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art
The Guardian
Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan, ‘If the lion does not tell its story, the hunter will’: a century of thrilling Cameroonian art
Oliver Wainwright, The CO2-absorbing building made of old sinks, windscreens and toilets: Ghent’s £17m design museum is a green marvel
Charlotte Jansen, Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography review – a rhapsodic show to stop you in your tracks
Jonathan Jones, Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review – sublime wonders from the Great Wave to that heroic, eternal peak
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Art Books on Needles and Threads
Valentina Di Liscia, Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum
Rhea Nayyar, Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30
Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown
John Yau, David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t
Anna Lee, Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants
Anna Lee, Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure
Daniela Mayer, Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It
Greta Rainbow, This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way
Emma Cieslik, Smiles Meyer Queers “The Last Supper”
The Los Angeles Times
Jessica Gelt, The Broad will move more than 160 works to Paris and Leimert Park during construction
Carolina Miranda, LACMA, Perrotin, the new Metro and now the Brick: Todd Gray is having a banner year
The New York Times
Andrew Dickson, London Exhibition Displays Children’s Selfies as Art
Remy Tumin, Visitor Killed by Roof Debris at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
Observer
Elisa Carollo, London’s October Auction Results Suggest the Market Is Playing It Safe
Elisa Carollo, Oscar Sunderland and Chloe Stewart Would Rather Collaborate With Their Artists Than Represent Them
Elisa Carollo, In Paris, Sotheby’s Is Betting on Intimacy to Win Over Private Buyers
Adam Robb, London’s Newest Museum Elevates Sir Philip Sassoon Above Lessons from World War II History
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, NASA said its space archive was down for ‘maintenance.’ Its security office shut it down.
Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NASA security emails on the NSSDCA archive
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