Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Fair-Brokered Museum Prizes Are Multiplying. Here’s Why by Margaret Carrigan for Artnet. Carrigan argues that museum acquisition prizes at art fairs benefit both sides but raise concerns about the commercialization of curatorial decisions.
Art in America
Carlo Valladares, Ragnar Kjartansson Is the Great Romantic Artist for Our Age of Loneliness
Andy Battaglia, Curator Jordan Carter Shares Five Recent Obsessions
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
Jane Morris, Gerhard Richter’s mosaic-like Doha pavilion will open in November
Riah Pryor, UK to standardise auction data, as sector rallies support for a new trade body
Helen Stoilas, Epstein files reading room and bookmobile begin US tour in Dallas
Martin Bailey, Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?
Ben Luke, The Bayeux Tapestry, damaged heritage in Iran, Tschabalala Self’s Trafalgar Square sculpture—podcast
Martin Bailey, Jewish collectors in Germany once helped make Berlin the Van Gogh capital of Europe
Artforum
From the Editors, 2026 Winners of $50,000 Rabkin Prize Announced
From the Editors, Gerhard Richter–Designed Pavilion Celebrating the Artist to Rise in Doha
From the Editors, Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director
From the Editors, Tschabalala Self Unveils Fourth Plinth Sculpture in London
Artnet
Adam Lindemann, Lunch With Adam: David Salle on Museum Malpractice, Art World Politics, and Painting Today
Ben Davis, The 2026 Gwangju Biennale in Pictures
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tschabalala Self’s ‘Lady in Blue’ Storms London
Vittoria Benzine, $10M Worth of Lichtenstein Works Hit the Market Ahead of Whitney Blockbuster
Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Why Are Museum Wall Texts So Bad?
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Diana’s ‘Revenge Dress’ Heads to Auction—and Other Art World Matters
Vittoria Benzine, Gerhard Richter Goes Monumental With New Doha Pavilion
EDITOR’S PICK - Margaret Carrigan, Fair-Brokered Museum Prizes Are Multiplying. Here’s Why: Who is gaining what from these partnerships?
Caroline Goldstein, Trump’s ‘Beautification’ Blitz Continues—and Other Art World Matters
ARTnews
Andy Battaglia, Qatar Is Building a Permanent Pavilion for Gerhard Richter to Open in November
Brian Boucher, ‘The American Public Has No Love for a CEO’: Stanya Kahn On Her Riveting Video of Social Posts About Luigi Mangione
Hikmat Mohammed, UAE Minister Says Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Tell a New Story About the Middle East, Despite the Ongoing War
Alex Greenberger, See Inside Maurizio Cattelan’s Highly Anticipated Berlin Show, Featuring a Sculpture Made with Human Remains
Anne Doran, The Largest Ancient Roman Wall Mosaic Ever Found Goes on Public View
Francesca Aton, “Urgent Action” Needed to Protect a World Heritage-Listed Temple in Cambodia
ArtReview
Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Kate Millett: The Crisis of Visual Language
Xenia Benivolski, ‘Call me gravity’: The Physicality of Debt
The Boston Globe
Murray Whyte, A flurry of art and architecture in Egypt’s Golden Age, at the MFA
The Brooklyn Rail
Lauren Levato Coyne, Cecilia Vicuña, Sam Frésquez, Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Spatial Poems
Joseph Akel, Hujar:Contact
Eleanor Heartney, Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions
Billy McEntee, Nari Ward: Until That Day
Valerie Mindlin, Richard Paul Lohse
Charles Duncan, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World
Financial Times
From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now
Frieze
Juliet Jacques, Del LaGrace Volcano Shows a Community to Itself
Grace Byron, Must-See: For Yvonne Jacquette, Perspective Was a Great Pursuit
The Guardian
Steven Morris, A bee’s-eye view: art installation beside the Thames celebrates crucial pollinators
Lauren Kelly, ‘The place lost its way. Now that’s changed’: can a Manchester art museum move beyond its troubled past?
Jonathan Jones, A rollicking statue, Beryl’s buddies and a swimming pool in a roundabout – the week in art
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Artists Reflect on 25 Years Since 9/11
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Artists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”
Valentina Di Liscia, Kathleen V. Jameson Named Speed Museum Director
Rhea Nayyar, Brooklyn Museum Displays Work of Artist Killed in 9/11 on 25th Anniversary
Lisa Yin Zhang, A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix
Naomi Polonsky, Tschabalala Self’s Splendid “Lady in Blue” Graces London’s Fourth Plinth
The New York Times
Jason Farago, Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
Emily LaBarge, Lose Yourself in Yayoi Kusama’s Last Show
Jane Margolies, An Art School Building Reveals Skills Beneath the Skin
Flora Stubbs, It’s Time for a Fall Reset
Observer
Ana Beatriz Reitz, Scott W Mason Sketches Fashion’s Biggest Moments
Elisa Carollo, How Gayane Umerova Is Shepherding Uzbekistan’s Cultural Transformation
Georges Berges, An Insider’s Indictment of an Isolated Art World
T Magazine
Siddhartha Mitter, What Happens When a Painter Abandons Paint?
Nick Haramis, Is Jeff Koons’s Greatest Artwork Being Jeff Koons?
From the Editors, Everyone Has Something to Say About Jeff Koons
The Wall Street Journal
William Meyers, ‘W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing’ Review: Indelible Images
The Washington Post
Jonathan Edwards, Facing historic White House pressure, Smithsonian tells the history of 9/11
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