Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is To Succeed, Museums Must Capture Attention Online and Cultivate It Offline by Suzanne Swarts for Financial Times. Museum Voorlinden director Suzanne Swarts argues that museums should use digital platforms to attract audiences while fostering slower and more contemplative engagement with art in person.
The Art Newspaper
Anna Brady, Downsizing and debt swaps: Pace Gallery files latest UK accounts
Gameli Hamelo, Toledo Museum of Art launches initiative to donate art books to African libraries
Kabir Jhala, Art Basel Qatar releases 2027 exhibitor list as renewed threat of war looms over Gulf
Gareth Harris, Fake or Fortune art historian donates major Anglo-Indian art collection to Tate
Artforum
From the Editors, “Guaranteed to Sell”: $80 Million Klimt Landscape Heads to Auction
From the Editors, Tate Britain Receives Gift Of 50 Works By Artists Who Lived And Worked In South Asia
From the Editors, National Gallery Singapore Rocked by High-Level Departures
From the Editors, Astronomers Propose New Date for Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Based on the Actual Night Sky
From the Editors, Hundreds Protest The Closure Of Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum
From the Editors, Róng Museum of Art Appoints Curatorial Team
Nolan Kelly, The Case for Corny: a week at the Museum of Modern Art with Pageant
Theo Belci, From the Archive: Steve Reich at Ninety
Artnet
Margaret Carrigan, Art Basel Qatar Returns With 82 Galleries, Courts New Collectors
Ben Davis, MSCHF Co-Founder Goes Solo
Anna Sui, Anna Sui on the Psychedelic Art That Rocked Her World
Richard Whiddington, A Small But Mighty Tiffany Lamp Illuminates the Auction Block
Tim Brinkhof, The Great Modigliani Sculpture Hoax of 1984
Margaret Carrigan, Tate Receives a Major Gift of South Asian Artworks
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Hillary Clinton Visits Yayoi Kusama Sculptures on Naoshima Island Ahead of 37th Praemium Imperiale Awards Ceremony
Hikmat Mohammed, Art Basel Qatar Returns for Second Edition With 82 Galleries Under Artistic Direction of Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Aims to ‘Deepen Collector Relationships’
Tessa Solomon, Jogen Chowdhury, ‘Towering Pillar’ of Indian Modern Art, Has Died at 87
Leigh Anne Miller, Two Top Executives Leave National Gallery of Singapore Amid Staff Shakeup
Daniel Cassady, Bill Koch to Sell More Than $40 M. in Art at Christie’s, Led by Monet and Cezanne Paintings
Tessa Solomon, V&A Union Suspend Planned Strikes after Management Delivers New Offers
Daniel Cassady, Friedel Dzubas Dreamed of Showing His Paintings in a Church—Now He Has His Wish
Maximilíano Durón, Milwaukee Art Museum Receives $10 M. Gift to Preserve Santiago Calatrava–Designed Building
Andy Battaglia, Scientists Say They’ve Rediscovered How the Romans Made the British Museum’s Color-Shifting Lycurgus Cup
Tessa Solomon, ‘Desiring Machines’ Dares Us to Imagine a Healthy Relationship with Technology
Maximilíano Durón, Whitney Museum Hires Nolan Jimbo as Associate Curator
Daniel Cassady, R.M. Schindler’s Modernist Beach House, Built for a California Health Nut, Hits the Market for a Breezy $18.8 Million
Harrison Jacobs, Italian Carabinieri Are Training Professionals Across Africa to Stop Antiquities Trafficking
ArtReview
Digby Warde-Aldam, Agata Bogacka’s Tortured Symbolism
Greta Rainbow, Tam Ochiai: Free Market Iconography
Frieze
From the Editors, What’s on at No.9 Cork Street This November
Ivana Cholakova, The Best Shows to See During Artissima 2026
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?
Matthew Weaver, Unions suspend planned V&A strike after improved pay offer
Alessandro Gandolfi, Protests, tourists and the Kremlin: Georgia at a crossroads – photo essay
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic, The Gospel According to Paul Pfeiffer
Rhea Nayyar, Lula Victory Memes That Make Us All Want to Be Brazilian
David S. Rubin, At 60, a Legendary LA Print Workshop Still Urges Us to Pay Attention
Brian Karl, Paul Pfeiffer on the Spectacle of Politics
Rebecca Schiffman, Nathan Fielder Is a Performance Artist in Disguise
Anna Lee, Giant Ofrenda Arrives in Manhattan Ahead of Día de Muertos
Anna Lee, Mamdani Votes Early at The Met. What Other NYC Museums Are Polling Sites?
John Yau, John Dilg’s Down-to-Earth Reverence
Brian Karl, The Artist Who Dined Among Lions
The Los Angeles Times
Sam Lubell, One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.’s $450 million Air and Space center
The New York Times
Will Heinrich, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Monumental Forms, Dies at 84
Shivani Vora, A Showcase of Works by the Designer Gio Ponti in New York
Fahima Haque, A New Exhibition Focuses on Ragtime at the Morgan Library & Museum
Megan McCrea and Amanda Villarosa, The Denver Art Museum Explores the Diva Universe
Ken Belson, Across the U.S., Neon Signs Are Being Celebrated at Museums and Parks
Michael Janofsky, The Science Behind Your Reaction to Art
Claudia Dreifus, A World War II Museum Brings the Lessons of War to a Younger Audience
Ted Loos, Elaine de Kooning Gets Her Time in the Spotlight
Laurel Graeber, A Conceptual Artist Makes Frankenstein’s Monster Sing
Observer
Elisa Carollo, A Roman Imperial Torso Set a New Antiquities Record at Sotheby’s as the Art World Looked Elsewhere
Jonathan Mallie, From Stadium to City, The Next Frontier in Venue Design Is Everything Around the Building
John Scott Lewinski, In Milwaukee, a Smaller Art Market Belies a Strong Cultural Community
EDITOR’S PICK - Suzanne Swarts, To Succeed, Museums Must Capture Attention Online and Cultivate It Offline: The Dutch institution Museum Voorlinden has created a program designed to train attention rather than fragment it. Its director explains why limiting spectacle has become essential.
Elisa Carollo, Despite a Turbulent Art Week, the Paris Auctions Delivered Stellar Results
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, The A.I. an artist calls his brother questions its own artistic credit
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