Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Who will crack the Gen Z art market? by Melanie Gerlis for Financial Times. Younger generations are reshaping art collecting through social media, accessible prints, and more inclusive approaches to museum patronage.
Art in America
Emily Watlington, The New Museum Spotlights New York City’s First Working-Class Entertainment Zone
The Art Newspaper
Ben Luke, David Clack and Alexander Morrison, Palestinian artists after the ceasefire, Robert Ryman, Katherine Hubbard—podcast
Gareth Harris, Police recover Renoir paintings stolen from French museum
Louisa Buck, Comment | Mark Wallinger’s latest work reflects his mastery of making big ideas accessible
J.S. Marcus, Restoration of earthquake-hit palace in Mantua nears completion
Martin Bailey, A Louis Vuitton foundation exhibition, with ten Van Gogh paintings, reveals the extraordinary vision of an early collector
Hadani Ditmars, Signet ring depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria—a lost wonder of the ancient world—discovered during underwater excavation
Angella d’Avignon, St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial explores connections between art and civic infrastructure
Allison C. Meier, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s cemetery art restored in the Bronx
Dale Berning Sawa, Uncertain future for Glasgow’s art scene as city’s Centre for Contemporary Art closes
Artforum
2020 Music Group, Hate the Real: Three Music Picks for October
From the Editors, Protesters Pressure MoMA to Boot Leon Black from Museum’s Board
From the Editors, The Asian Art Biennial Announces Full Lineup
From the Editors, Tang Contemporary Closes Hong Kong Outpost Amid Allegations of Nonpayment
From the Editors, Survey Finds Gen Z Collectors To Be the Art World’s Biggest Spenders
From the Editors, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago Announces $5 Million Gender Equity Fund For Artists
From the Editors, Gochman Family Collection to Open Hudson Valley Art Space
From the Editors, Gilded Statue of Nude, Golf-Club-Wielding Trump Installed in European Parliament
Artnet
Andrew Russeth, The Whitney’s Roy Lichtenstein Survey Is a Sly Triumph
Richard Whiddington, After Spat With Dutch Gov, Van Gogh Museum Gets Reno Funds
Sonia Manalili, Let’s Talk About Lee Krasner (and Jackson Pollock)
Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint in Utah! Reed Hastings’s Skiable Art Museum, a Pink Spiral Jetty, and More
Margaret Carrigan, New Frieze Week Events Aim to Make Art Fairs Fun Again
ARTnews
Maximilíano Durón, It’s Yours Now: What Top Collectors Have Donated to Museums
Anne Doran, Ten Spiritualist Women Artists to Know
Maximilíano Durón, In Memoriam: Remembering Art Collectors Lost, From Agnes Gund to Dorothy Vogel
Leigh Anne Miller, Van Gogh Museum Reaches Agreement with Dutch Government on Contentious Renovation Budget
Daniel Cassady, At the Fall’s First Major Auctions, Buyers Spent Carefully but Competed for the Right Works
Francesca Aton, A New AI Tool Wants to Fix the Gender Imbalance of Gallery Rosters
Andy Battaglia, Cooper Union Strikes New Land-Lease Deal for New York’s Chrysler Building, With Plans to Restore Full-Tuition Scholarships
Brian Boucher, Tang Contemporary Art Shutters a Hong Kong Location as Creditors File Complaints and Artists Claim Overdue Payments
Tessa Solomon, Former Bard President Resigns College Affiliations Amid Inquiry Into Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Maximilíano Durón, Gochman Family Collection’s Hudson Valley Space to Be Called Branchline, Opening in November
Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s To Offer $100 M. Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, Led by $15 M. Paintings by Rothko and Ruscha
ArtReview
From the Editors, Biennale Jogja Foundation closes
Lydia Eliza Trail, Maren Karlson’s Baader Meinhof Complex
Gwen Burlington, ‘The Floating World’ by Ben Eastham, Reviewed
The Boston Globe
Murray Whyte, ‘America in the Making’ at the Addison Gallery of American Art is a big attempt to comprehend our national narrative
Murray Whyte, Beyond the Noguchi Table: Exploring a design polymath’s legacy
The Brooklyn Rail
Ekin Erkan, Thomas Ruff: jpegs ny
Andrew Paul Woolbright, Frank Gillette: Spectra Obscura
Suzanne Hudson, Tariku Shiferaw: Hulet Semāi (Two Skies)
Alex Grimley, Howard Smith: Tomorrow isn’t Yesterday
Terry R. Myers, Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden
Financial Times
Ariella Budick, Arthur Jafa’s New York retrospective treads disturbing ground lightly
Jackie Wullschläger, Baselitz’s anti-heroic ‘Heroes’ burst into life at Thaddaeus Ropac
EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, Who will crack the Gen Z art market?: Galleries and fairs are increasingly courting younger audiences who have caught the art-buying bug
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Tate sounds eerie, Frieze returns and Cindy Sherman takes surreal selfies – the week in art
Ben Eastham, Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, France’s Student Protests in Photos
Valentina Di Liscia, Mary Deleary Named Director of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Anna Lee, 15 Defining Photos From the Student Protests in France
Hrag Vartanian, The Ritual Joy of Queer Performance Refuses to Give Up
Anna Lee, EMΣT in Athens Wins European Art Museum Award for Social Impact
Rhea Nayyar, Congressman Calls on Smithsonian to Document Trump’s “Narcissistic Self-Worship”
Anthony Hawley, Frank Gillette’s Anthropic Blues
Seph Rodney, I Wanted a Different Betty Parsons Exhibition
The New York Times
M.H. Miller, Marina Abramović Can’t Be Ignored
Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, An Artist Who Adds Punchlines to His Portraits
Observer
Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of Chicago
Nathan Smith, Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize
Elisa Carollo, Ragnar Kjartansson Makes the Familiar Strange at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Chiwoniso Kaitano, Why Artist Residencies May Be Culture’s Best Defense Against Automation
Elisa Carollo, With Ostillo Art Foundation, Collector René Campos Wants to Challenge How Texas Sees Art
Elisa Carollo, The Art Basel and UBS Collecting Survey Shows Gen Z Setting the Pace, and the Megafair Is Remaking Itself to Keep Up
Daniella Nicola, Demna’s Power at Gucci Goes Beyond the Runway
Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at New York Film Festival: Tom McCarthy’s ‘A Statement’
T Magazine
From the Editors, She Found Fame With ‘Caps for Sale.’ A New Exhibition Shows Her Range.
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Whitney unveils first major New York Lichtenstein retrospective since 1993
The Washington Post
Philip Kennicott, It’s up to Chief Justice Roberts to preserve the Smithsonian’s independence
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