Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is The Art Market Wanted to Go Global—It Didn’t Plan for Everything That Means by Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. Examining how global crises, from protests and geopolitical conflicts to terrorism, natural disasters, and pandemics, have disrupted the international art market and exposed the risks of an increasingly interconnected industry.
The Art Newspaper
Simon Bainbridge, Photography as sculpture and an 800-page photobook on the Russia-Ukraine war: Deutsche Börse Prize nominees announced
Stéphane Renault, Rudi Fuchs, influential Dutch curator and former director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, dies aged 84
Debika Ray, ‘There’s so much of Scotland in them’: cuts to Edinburgh College of Art craft degrees spark backlash
Martha Lufkin, Challenges mounting to US laws enacted to aid recovery of Nazi-looted art
Hannah Sage Kay, Getting ‘woo-woo’ in the desert: Los Angeles artist launches pirate radio station
Artforum
Anya Harrison, La mort du cygne: Dispatch from Paris Art Week
From the Editors, Pace Gallery Reports 35.5% Losses In Delayed 2024 Report
Lydia Eliza Trail, Down and Out in Fitzrovia and Holborn: Frieze Week’s “Alt” Program
From the Editors, 2,500-Year-Old Solar Observatory Discovered in Mexico
From the Editors, Toledo Museum of Art Launches Book Donation Initiative for African Libraries
From the Editors, Sandra Terdjman Named Bard’s Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism
Artnet
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Is London’s Serpentine Gallery Entering a Bold New Era?
Richard Whiddington, Are Museums Boring? Only a Little, Study Finds
Margaret Carrigan, Pace Gallery’s U.K. Arm Lost $5.4 Million in 2025, New Filings Reveal
Min Chen, This Tiny Fabergé Treasure Could Make a $1M Splash at Auction
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Steve McQueen Brings Nina Simone and David Bowie Together in an Unlikely Duet
ARTnews
Alex Greenberger, New York’s MTA Arts & Design Commissions Works from Ivan Forde, Trevor Paglen, and Howardena Pindell
Maximilíano Durón, Marian Goodman Gallery Hires Ebony L. Haynes as Senior Director, Announces Leadership Changes
Andy Battaglia, Opinion: As Federal Support for Culture Falls, We Need a New Generation of Giving
Alex Greenberger, At 96, Surrealist Painter Cossette Zeno Is Finally Having Her Moment
Daniel Cassady, World Monuments Fund Raises $62 M., Tripling Its Endowment Ahead of Schedule
Anne Doran, See the Official Trailer for “Dig,” Amy Pohler and Michael Schur’s New Comedy Series
Harrison Jacobs, Pace Reports $5.6 M. Loss for International Business, With Glimchers Pledging to Keep It Afloat
Maximilíano Durón, Leah Ke Yi Zheng Joins Antenna Space, Pérez Art Museum Miami to Honor Nicolas Berggruen, and More: Industry Moves for October 28, 2026
Maximilíano Durón, MSCHF Cofounder Lukas Bentel Leaves Viral Art Collective to Pursue Solo Work
Brian Boucher, London Falling? A New Report on Three Decades of the British Art Market Finds Its Growth Trailing Rival Hubs
EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Cassady, The Art Market Wanted to Go Global—It Didn’t Plan for Everything That Means: The world outside the fairgrounds isn’t always peaceful, predictable, or particularly interested in the needs of the art trade.
Andy Battaglia, LA Artist Snuck His Own Drawing onto the Met’s Walls and Filmed It
Daniel Cassady, Works From Agnes Gund’s Collection Head to Christie’s, Led by $8 M. Vija Celmins Painting
Devorah Lauter, Outsider Artist Josef Hofer, Whose Developmental Disability Made Him a Target in Nazi-Occupied Austria, Has Died at 80
ArtReview
Nirmala Devi, ‘Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA’, Reviewed
Louise Darblay, Liberté, Egalité, Absurdité
Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Jason Hirata, Park McArthur, A Porous Dialogue
From the Editors, Rudi Fuchs, former director of Stedelijk Museum, 1942–2026
Cultured
Keko Jackson, Jasminne Morataya, Brontez Purnell and Eileen Havant Townsend, The LA Dispatch: Milano Chow in a Frank Lloyd Wright Gem, a Group Show in a Secret Location, and More’
Sam Falb, This Installation Was Sent 5,000 Miles to Make a Point About African Architecture
Schuyler Daffy, How Does 74-Year-Old Painter Lari Pittman Work? ‘Monastically and Desperately and Cluelessly’
Financial Times
Alicia Clegg, Museums urged to boost sensory experiences for blind visitors
Caroline Roux, ‘They are an act of resistance’ — Tacita Dean on the works of Arte Povera artist Marisa Merz
The Guardian
Doosie Morris, Tiny basement turned ‘exuberant’ apartment wins interior prize at Australia’s National Architecture awards
Sarah Phillips, The rise and fall of mid-century modern: how millennials fell out of love with their favourite look
Eddy Frankel, Skulls, bulls and someone peeing in her own eye: four great exhibitions to see for free
Interview by Chris Broughton, The bare-handed beekeeper who looks like something out of The Odyssey: Holly Lynton’s best photograph
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, An Epstein Survivor’s Message for MoMA
Danielle Bensky, I’m an Epstein Survivor. MoMA Must Drop Leon Black.
Rhea Nayyar, Vatican Exhibition Series Centers “Fundamentally Human” Art Over AI
Maria Owen, Beverly Buchanan at the Raw Edge of Art
Max Blue, San Francisco’s Galleries Explore Alternative Routes for Survival
John Yau, Lisa Sanditz’s Seismic Sublime
Lily Kwak, Cici Wu’s Memory Lanterns
Tara Anne Dalbow, Tacita Dean’s Truth in Materials
Anna Lee, Philadelphians to Vote on Permanent Arts and Culture Office on Election Day
The Los Angeles Times
Jane Horowitz, After his 99 Cents Only Store takeover, street artist Barry McGee takes over a gallery
The New York Times
Leslie Wayne, A New Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibit Shows a World Beyond Flowers
Shivani Vora, A Large-Scale Manga Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum
Alina Tugend, Local Artists Speak to Baltimore’s Long and Complex History
Heather Kathryn Ross, A Museum Just for Latin American and Latino Art Celebrates 30 Years
Claudia Dreifus, A World War II Museum Brings the Lessons of War to a Younger Audience
Observer
Elisa Carollo, With FUZE, John Cox Is Carving Pathways Between the Caribbean’s Scenes and the Broader Art World
Elisa Carollo, Inside Dario Duran’s Initiative Connecting Iranian Artists to the Global Art World
Sam Moore, Artists Are Turning to Folklore to Make Sense of Technology
Sarah Moroz, At Fondation Louis Vuitton, Gustave Fayet Emerges as a Forerunner of the Modern Multi-Hyphenate
Puck
Marion Maneker, The W-Shaped Art Market
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Baseball-card painter thr33som3s stages his own Senate races before Election Day
Adam Schrader, Wolf Kahn Foundation announces centennial shows to elevate artist’s standing
The Wall Street Journal
Karen Wilkin, ‘Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450-1500’ Review: Magic in Metal
The Washington Post
Teniola Ayoola, A new Phillips Collection exhibition is a lesson in unpacking abstract art
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