Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Less Is More: Inside the Art World’s New Season of Recalibration by Katya Kazakina for Artnet. The art world is entering a period of recalibration as galleries cut costs, collectors become more selective, and interest shifts toward established artists and more cautious spending.
Art in America
Nathan Stobaugh, Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative
The Art Newspaper
EDITOR’S PICK - Scott Reyburn, From Poussin to Pokémon: why attitudes towards collecting art are shifting: Dealers are cutting costs, and collectors are seeking bargains. Welcome to the new normal.
Gareth Harris, ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London
Elena Goukassian, Writers for Artforum, The New York Times and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes
Florence Hallett, Paris exhibition presents Tintoretto alongside his French fanboys
Artforum
Jason Moran, Jason Moran on Toni Morrison, Joan Jonas, and the art of listening
David J. Getsy, Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa’s airmail confessions
From the Editors, Freelands Foundation Announces £100,000 Annually for Three UK Arts Organizations
From the Editors, National Gallery’s Robert Stein Named Executive Director of Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth
From the Editors, US’s Oldest Natural History Museum, in Philly, to Close
Artnet
EDITOR’S PICK - Katya Kazakina, Less Is More: Inside the Art World’s New Season of Recalibration:
Caroline Goldstein, Trump’s ‘Beautification’ Blitz Continues—and Other Art World Matters
Ben Davis, Wall Labels Are in a Sorry State. Here’s How to Fix Them
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Amon Carter Museum Taps Tech-Savvy Exec as Its New Director
Min Chen, Futura and Lego Are Building Something Together—and Other Art World Matters
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns to Sotheby’s With $300,000 Price Tag
Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Sandra Vásquez De La Horra’s Dreamlike Drawings Unite Nature and Humanity
Tessa Solomon, Rabkin Foundation Names Eight Winners of Its 2026 Arts Journalism Grants
Devorah Lauter, After a Turbulent Decade and Multiple Delays, Brussels’s Kanal-Centre Pompidou Will Open in November. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.
Alex Greenberger, Getty Center Closes After Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway
Maximilíano Durón, Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director
Alex Greenberger, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Faces Lawsuit over Whether It Truly Is a Private Museum at All
Francesca Aton, Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection Donates 51 Artworks to Four Museums in Greece and Scotland
Francesca Aton, Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Finland’s Largest Viking-Age Silver Hoard
Andy Battaglia, Basel Social Club Launches Japanese Counterpart for Art Week Tokyo
Lisa Lockwood, Diotima Unveils Fall Ad Campaign Inspired by Artist Wilfredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Symbolism and History
Devorah Lauter, Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted
Hikmat Mohammed, Jeff Koons Teams Up with Hublot for a New Watch Collaboration
Nathan Stobaugh, Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative
ArtReview
Emily McDermott, The Interview: Ana María Caballero
The Atlantic
Clint Smith, What Lonnie Bunch Told Me
The Boston Globe
Murray Whyte, Native American artist Sky Hopinka awarded prestigious Rappaport Prize
The Brooklyn Rail
Mark Hudson, John Currin: Opening Credits
Cal McKeever, Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind
Robert Alan Grand, Entirely Preventable: The Toxic Legacy of Silica Dust from Hawks Nest to Black Lung
Horacio Ramos, Chonon Bensho: Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow
Jillian Russo, Guadalupe Maravilla & Emery Blagdon: The star exploding in the body
The Guardian
Hettie O’Brien, Thursday briefing: 68 facts about the Bayeux tapestry as it goes on display
Hyperallergic
Valentina Di Liscia, Testicle Art Is So Back
Ed Simon, Lonnie Bunch’s Resignation Is a Wake-Up Call
Sarah Reisman, The Counterpublic Triennial’s New Kind of Public Space
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Jean-François Leroy, Lucien Smith, and Jibby Beane
Phillip Pyle, A Brief History of Testicle Art
Rhea Nayyar, Striking Workers Shutter Three V&A London Locations
Anna Lee, Trust in US Museums Grows Across Party Lines, Survey Finds
Ela Bittencourt, Women Painters Lead Brazil’s New Wave of Figuration
The Los Angeles Times
Jessica Gelt, From Banksy to Boba Fett: A map of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Emily St. Martin, Lucien Smith, multidisciplinary artist and art world fixture of the 2010s, dies at 37
Jane Horowitz, Will the Lucas Museum upend the art world? Depends if the people embrace ‘the people’s art’
The New York Times
Aruna D’Souza, An Artist Inspired by Men Behaving Badly
Alex Marshall, A Nation Gripped by ‘Bayeux Fever’ Finally Gets to See the Tapestry
Alex Marshall, How to See a Bayeux Tapestry — Without Going to the British Museum
Zachary Small, Can the 9/11 Museum Tell Its Story for Another 25 Years?
David Allen, A Paradise Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views
Observer
Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at Venice: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s ‘The Burning Giants’
Daniel Grant, Experts Agree Chinese Porcelain’s Value Rests on Who Made It and For Whom
Elisa Carollo, Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown
The Washington Post
Jonathan Edwards, Smithsonian chief to retire as Trump fights to reshape the institution
Philip Kennicott, It’s up to Chief Justice Roberts to preserve the Smithsonian’s independence
Whitehot
Bella Greenbacher, Seeking an Emotional Truth: An Interview with Scott Kahn
Liam Otero, Opinion: Why serious art lovers need to visit MFA & BFA thesis exhibitions
Noah Becker, Interview: Painter Michele LeMaitre on the Meaning of Water, Movement and Light
Jakob Dwight, In Conversation: Derriann Pharr and Her Pursuit of Transcendence
Liam Otero, Danit Weitzman - Winner of the Liam Otero Prize, Critics Choice Exhibition, Ki Smith Gallery
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