Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Time Magazine Publishes its First Art 100 List, Featuring Artists, Museum Leaders, Dealers and More—See Who Made the Cut by Brian Boucher for ARTnews. Time has unveiled its inaugural TIME100 Art list, recognizing artists and influential figures across the global art world.
Art in America
Andy Battaglia, Nilo Cruz Shares Five Recent Obsessions
The Art Newspaper
Gareth Harris, Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to open new venue for contemporary art
Hadani Ditmars, Researchers rescuing war-damaged manuscripts in Gaza receive Unesco prize
Anny Shaw, Monet’s ‘Iris’ could break record for most expensive painting ever sold at auction in France
Graciela Ibáñez, One of Lima’s oldest mills, uncovered by chance in 2020, to open to visitors in January
Tim Schneider, Comment | Mega-galleries reducing their real estate footprint might seem to spell doom—but a bit of perspective is needed
Gareth Harris, Tate Modern to stage its first Monet exhibition next year
Ben Luke, Comment | Sunil Gupta’s intimate photographs show how art and activism can work together
Artforum
Alex Jovanovich an TARWUK, Artist Project: Tarwuk
Katherine Rochester, Terry Iacuzzo and Tony Oursler Talk Tarot
From the Editors, Renoir Show Breaks Box-Office Record at London’s National Gallery
From the Editors, Unionized Staff at Three Major NYC Museums Vote to Strike
From the Editors, The Met Breaks Ground on New Modern and Contemporary Wing
From the Editors, Andrei Rublev Icon Warped After Climate-Control Failure
Artnet
Vittoria Benzine, Rare, Early Keith Haring Works Come to Auction
Richard Whiddington, A Mathematician Just Debunked a Parthenon Myth
Amah-Rose Abrams, Johnny Marr on Selling His Prized Guitars: ‘This Is Hugely Personal’
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Peter Max, the Psychedelic Artist Who Was Friends with The Beatles, Has Died at 88
EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, Time Magazine Publishes its First Art 100 List, Featuring Artists, Museum Leaders, Dealers and More—See Who Made the Cut: Half of the list is made up of artists, while the other half consists of the people who sell, curate, and collect their work.
Alex Greenberger, Artist Santiago Sierra to Stage Days-Long Reading of Names of Palestinians Killed by Israel
Mercedes Ezquiaga, Collector and MALBA Founder Eduardo F. Costantini on How His Museum Tells the Full Story of Latin American Art History
Maximilíano Durón, Danielle Forest Brandi Joins Beaumont Nathan, Kenta Murakami Named Partner at Ortuzar, and More: Industry Moves for September 17, 2026
Brian Boucher, Some Collectors Feel ‘Energized,’ Some ‘Burned’: As the Curtain Rises on the New York Fall Season, Mixed Signals from Market Insiders
Maximilíano Durón, House of Representatives Holds Billionaire Collector Leon Black in Contempt Regarding Epstein Subpoenas
Devorah Lauter, Bolstered by New Laws, Lawsuits in Los Angeles Renew Bids for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art
Leigh Anne Miller, Metropolitan Museum of Art Breaks Ground on $670 M. Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art
Hikmat Mohammed, Pope Leo XIV Celebrates His 71st Birthday with JR Installation at the Vatican Apostolic Library
Leigh Anne Miller, Budapest’s House of Terror Museum Temporarily Shuttered, Pending Review of Controversial Political Exhibitions
ArtReview
Mark Rappolt, YoungEun Kim: Slippery Sounds
Zoë Hopkins, Has Black Musical Culture Always Been a Visual Culture?
From the Editors, Islamic Arts Biennale 2027 names lead curators
The Boston Globe
Murray Whyte, Son Lux debuts haunting video art at Mass MoCA
Financial Times
Rosalind Jalinda, What the artist wore — unpacking a century of studio style
Frieze
James Lawrence Slattery, The Moths in Minne Kersten’s Attic
From the Editors, What to Read: Frieze’s Autumn Reading Picks
The Guardian
Chloë Ashby, Is this world-class, free gallery Cambridge’s best-kept secret?
Miranda Sawyer, Hard parties, cheap rents and horrible flats: how 90s art and fashion redefined British culture
Dalya Alberge, Previously unseen drawings by Moomins author Tove Jansson to go on show in London
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, What Counterpublic Triennial Brings to St. Louis
Rebecca Schiffman, Five Shows to See in Tribeca Right Now
Anna Lee, Lawsuit Alleges Multimillion-Dollar Andy Warhol Fraud Scheme
Natalie Jenkins, 10 Art Shows to See in Chicago This Fall
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Cat Frazier, Susan Michod, and Joel Snyder
Eileen G’Sell, Sandra George’s Portraits of Working-Class Dignity
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alma Thomas Opens Up Our Crowns
Anna Lee and Rhea Nayyar, Your Cheat Sheet to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs
Eileen G’Sell, The Counterpublic Triennial Pollinates a Budding St. Louis
From the Editors, Elizabeth Holmes, But Make It Art
The New York Times
Laura Collins-Hughes, Conjuring a Herd of Buffalo From Steel, Wood and Burlap
Reggie Ugwu, Gordon Parks as His Subjects Knew Him
Observer
Gay Hutson, What’s Next for British Art?
Adam Robb, Toronto’s Fall Cultural Calendar Foregrounds Ruin, Rebirth and Rupture
Elisa Carollo, Toronto Biennial Curator Allison Glenn On Creating Connections and What Happens When Things Fall Apart
Christa Terry, This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend
Puck
Dan Duray, An Indie Art Fair Grows Up
The Wall Street Journal
Lance Esplund, George Lucas’s Museum Confuses Illustration With Art
Michael J. Lewis, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Is a ‘Star Wars’-Level Spectacle
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