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 Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report by Brian Boucher for ARTnews. The Art Basel/UBS report finds that wealthy collectors are increasingly using AI for art discovery and research, while younger collectors remain especially private about their collections.
Art in America
Emily Watlington, How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
The Art Newspaper
Joe Ware, Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction
Hokhang Cheung, Hong Kong gallery Tang Contemporary closes amid row over outstanding debts
From the Editors, Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?
Gareth Harris, ‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters
Carlie Porterfield, Wealthy Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders, survey finds
Scarlet Cheng, K-pop star RM shows off his collection of Korean art at SFMoMA
Emma Cieslik, Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building
Isa Farfan, Pop-up exhibition outside MoMA highlights connections between trustee Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein
Gareth Harris, Huge bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí stolen in latest French museum theft
Melissa Gronlund, Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director
Artforum
From the Editors, Hong Kong’s Para Site Exits Quarry Bay and Announces Nomadic Program
From the Editors, V&A Announces Voluntary Exit Scheme For All Staff
From the Editors, 330-Pound Dalí-Designed Bronze Book Cover Stolen from French Museum
From the Editors, Souraya Noujaim Named Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi
From the Editors, Eva Presenhuber Shutters Vienna Gallery
From the Editors, Zaha Hadid Foundation Opens Arts Space in Former London HQ
Tonio Schachinger, What’s Love Got to Do with It
Artnet
Prudence Peiffer, How Robert Indiana Made America—and America Made Him
Andrew Russeth, The Archives of Legendary New York Galleries Just Went Online
Richard Whiddington, Congressman Calls for Smithsonian Exhibit on Trump Propaganda
Katya Kazakina, The Met’s Krasner-Pollock Blockbuster ‘Was a Herculean Effort.’ Here’s How It Came Together
ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón, Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair, Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac, and More: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026
EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, The Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report: For the first time, collectors were asked how they got started on collecting and how they think about publicizing their holdings.
Hikmat Mohammed, Is the Tate’s ’90s Art and Fashion Show a Buzzing Delight or a Wardrobe Malfunction? Depends on Who You Ask
Maximilíano Durón, As Europe Enters Art Fair Season, London is Looking Fresh and Paris Continues to Shine
Francesca Aton, Greek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return
Alex Greenberger, Roy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed Into It
Tessa Solomon, Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record
Brian Boucher, Rep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s Propaganda, To Teach About Tyranny
Francesca Aton, Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration
Maximilíano Durón, Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers to Stage Two-Venue Frank Stella Exhibition Next Spring
ArtReview
From the Editors, The ArtReview Philanthropy Supplement 2026 Out Now
From the Editors, ArtReview October 2026 Issue Out Now
The Atlantic
Kelsey Ables, Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes
The Brooklyn Rail
Lilac Burrel, Buket Savci: Patches For a Broken Harmony
Francesca Pietropaolo, Tatiana Trouvé: The Auxiliaries
Invar-Torre Hollaus, Patrick Rohner: Faltungen
David Rhodes, Hans Arp: Heads or Tails
Joel Danilewitz, Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher
Financial Times
From the Editors, ‘The 90s: Art and Fashion’ is a riotous, revisionist version of Britain
Hilton Als, ‘She lets her energy go full throttle’: Hilton Als on Alice Neel’s queer portraits
From the Editors, 21 outstanding ways to spend it in October
The Guardian
Helen Meany, Lourdes gets a Vegas glow-up at Dublin theatre festival, where canvases are slashed
Fiona Sturges, Severed hands, crushed bones and a ‘monstrous mermaid with sharp teeth’: Reece Shearsmith on his dark obsessions
Eddy Frankel, Crush-worthy photography, camp sci-fi and a centenarian’s florals: five free exhibitions to see
Ben Eastham, Robert Ryman review – can your brain handle a show that only has white paintings?
Zoe Whitfield, ‘In the wake of death, Courtney Love was giving it her all’: Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur on her best photograph
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie?
Anna Lee, Las Vegas Teen Killed in Arts District Shooting
Rhea Nayyar, European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Ingrid Wiener, Ian Berry, and Bob Masse
Phillip Pyle, LACMA’s Alexander Calder Erewhon Smoothie Is What the Art World Deserves
Matt Stromberg, 10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October
Daniel Larkin, The Hellhounds of Genocide
Amy Gilman, The Museum Director as Gardener
Lavinia Liang, Dorothea Tanning Beyond Max Ernst’s Shadow
Irene Lee, Celebrating 60 Years of NYC’s Millennium Film Workshop
The New York Times
Jason Farago, Connecting the Dots Between Roy Lichtenstein and Today
Blake Gopnik, The Fresh Charms of Art From the 15th Century
Observer
Elisa Carollo, Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years
Christa Terry, Kristof Santy Would Rather Trust Objective Reality than Reach for Eve’s Apple
Dan Duray, Newly Appointed Madre Director Eugenio Viola Sees the Museum as a Living Archive
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Epstein survivor at MoMA protest says Epstein talked up his art world connections
Adam Schrader, Appeals judges press NEA on ‘gender ideology’ penalty for arts grants
The Wall Street Journal
Judith H. Dobrzynski, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture’ Review: Familiar Painter, New Perspective
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