Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership by Riah Pryor for The Art Newspaper. Recent lawsuits highlight ongoing challenges around art valuation, authenticity, copyright, and estate planning following artists’ and collectors’ deaths.
Art in America
Emily Watlington, How Feral Dogs Marshaled a Defense Against Nuclear Weapons, and Other Animal Stories Erin Johnson’s Films Tell
The Art Newspaper
Annabel Keenan, How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation
Gareth Harris, British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours
Ayla Jean Yackley, How Turkey is racing to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks
J. Cabelle Ahn, New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists
Ben Luke, Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop
EDITOR’S PICK - Riah Pryor, Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership: Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market
Louisa Buck, Grounding ourselves: new exhibition in London explores our complex relationship to the earth
Tim Schneider, Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon
Artnet
Margaret Carrigan, Jeff Koons Offloads $100M Worth of Art at Christie’s
Richard Whiddington, Meet Jodi the Nanotyrannus, a New Dinosaur With a $9M Price Tag
Sonia Manalili, Takeaways from Hong Kong’s Auctions
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Thaddaeus Ropac Nabs Denzil Forrester, Revered Painter of U.K. Nightlife
Katya Kazakina, Luhring Augustine Gallery Is Closing Its Tribeca Branch
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Hong Kong’s Fall Auctions Top $255M
Min Chen, Andy Warhol’s Mythical Pop Art Book Gets a Second Life
Richard Whiddington, Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought at Estate Sale for $30, Nets $1.35M at Auction
Annikka Olsen, Lee Bul Floats a Giant Airship in Chelsea
Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint Fight Night! Artists vs. Critics, Critics vs. Critics, and More!
ARTnews
Anne Doran, An Exhibition Devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock Argues for Krasner’s Equal Significance
Andy Battaglia, What Changing Views of the Young British Artists Say About the Art World Today
Brian Boucher and Maximilíano Durón, Independent Acquired by Global Conglomerate Informa
Tessa Solomon, Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes
Anne Doran, Swiss Government to Fund Research into Holdings of Cultural Artifacts
Hikmat Mohammed, British Museum Refunds Bayeux Tapestry Visitors After Closing Early for Reception Attended by Princess Anne
Francesca Aton, Ingrid Wiener, Viennese Actionist Artist and Collaborator of Valie Export and Dieter Roth, Dies at 83
Brian Boucher, Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility
Francesca Aton, Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds
Maximilíano Durón, As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency
Leigh Anne Miller, Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China
George Nelson, After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction
Financial Times
Christian House, Kylie Manning: the Alaskan fisher-turned-painter with an eye for oceans
Glenn Adamson, Beverly Buchanan: the rediscovered talent with a taste for the ramshackle
The Guardian
Veronica Esposito, ‘Each artist on their own terms’: why Lee Krasner was every bit the equal to husband Jackson Pollock
Ben Eastham, Play that funky Turbine Hall! How artist Tarek Atoui aims to take the Tate on a sonic odyssey
Zoe Wood, From hotel suites to virtual reality, museums turn to licensing deals as costs rise
Oliver Wainwright, ‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
Eddy Frankel, Mike Nelson review – a waking nightmare of derelict dunes and desert island despair
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Tom of Finland Foundation Turmoil
Hakim Bishara, Between Worlds
Min Park, Maia Ruth Lee Invites Us to Embody the Interval
Anna Lee, Mamdani Doubles Grants for NYC Artists
Rhea Nayyar, Three NYC Museum Unions Ratify Contracts, Averting Strikes
Matt Stromberg, Queer Artists Say Tom of Finland Foundation Has Lost Its Way
Hrag Vartanian, Mala Iqbal Paints the Space We Share With Strangers
Anna Lee, British Museum to Provide Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tour After Lawsuit
Anna Lee, Francis Lee Rogers, Painter and Avid Birdwatcher, Found Dead in Central Park
The Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
Zachary Small, Jeff Koons Is Selling $100 Million of His Personal Art Collection
Kim Córdova, A Show Gives a Taste of What a U.S. Pavilion in Venice Might Have Been
Amei Wallach, From Love and Pain, Game-Changing Art
The New Yorker
Zachary Fine, Arthur Jafa’s Odyssey of Appropriation
Observer
Christa Terry, The Nobel Prize Diploma’s Century Long Artistic History
Elisa Carollo, Untitled Art Finds Its Footing in Houston With Its Second Edition
Elisa Carollo, Corporate Cultural Investments Are Finding Their Place in ESG Reporting
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Santa Barbara museum says Beanie Babies billionaire waited too long to sue
Adam Schrader, 36 antiquities returned to Syria, including 13 seized from the Met
Adam Schrader, Seattle painter: skip the open-call fee, buy ‘really good sandwiches’ instead
Adam Schrader, Mariam Megalla works two jobs to pay for her Brooklyn Army Terminal studio
Adam Schrader, Urgent Matter’s October 2026 list of art-world jobs and residencies
Adam Schrader, Artist fractures finger at NARS residency amid yearlong O-1 visa wait
Adam Schrader, Valeria Deminova builds her first home studio after a year without one
The Wall Street Journal
Joe Stonor, Brits Are Arguing Over Who Gets to See a 230-Foot Long Embroidered Cloth
From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 4
Karen Wilkin, ‘Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous’ Review: Abstract Painting’s Power Couple at the Met
Isaac Sligh, ‘John Baer’ Review: Bearing Witness to the Postwar Era
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