Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is BBC art dealing game show reveals ‘crisis of commodification’ facing galleries by Scott Reyburn for The Art Newspaper. A BBC game show reflects a broader crisis in the art market, where the commodification of art increasingly prioritizes profit over artistic value and risks fostering cultural sameness.
Apollo Magazine
Morgan Falconer, Brice Marden, master of colour
Lucy Davies, The Trieste photographers who were a class sister act
The Art Newspaper
Catherine Hickley, Art Institute of Chicago restitutes Metzinger painting sold in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam
Gareth Harris, Yves Goldstein to depart as director-general of Brussel’s upcoming Kanal museum immediately following opening weekend
Alexander Morrison, British Museum bans visitors from photographing Bayeux Tapestry
Annabel Keenan, Large-scale projection on Brooklyn Bridge calls attention to marine life off the coast of New York City
Sophia Kishkovsky, Artist’s floating synagogue installation in Venice destroyed by harsh winds
Senay Boztas, Mauritshuis to restitute 17th-century Dutch painting after research reveals it belonged to renowned Jewish dealer
EDITOR’S PICK - Scott Reyburn, BBC art dealing game show reveals ‘crisis of commodification’ facing galleries: What is the future for the art market when monetary value trumps aesthetic value?
Carlie Porterfield, Christie’s will stage second anime and manga auction after debut sale outperformed expectations
Anna Brady, Hockney works to the fore at British Art Fair
Hadani Ditmars, From ailing cooling systems to toxic chemicals, a museum tour shines a light on the effects of austerity
Artforum
From the Editors, Mérida to Host First Edition of Bienale de Yucatán
From the Editors, Tyler Mitchell Wins Crystal Bridges Museum’s $250,000 Don Tyson Prize
From the Editors, Kanal Director Yves Goldstein to Depart Museum After Opening Weekend
From the Editors, Maria Arusoo to Lead Estonia’s Tallinn Art Hall
Artnet
Min Chen, Long-Lost ‘Star Trek’ Spaceship Model Beams Down to MIT
Min Chen, Hilla Rebay Helped Shape the Guggenheim. Now Her Own Art Is Getting Its Due
Margaret Carrigan, Uzbekistan Gets Its First Contemporary Art Institution: ‘It’s a Cultural Renaissance’
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Mauritshuis Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Dealer
Daniel Cassady, Christie’s Heads to Abu Dhabi to Mark 20 Years in United Arab Emirates, as Country’s Market Grows
Andy Battaglia, Solange Knowles Will Show Large-Scale Sculpture on New York’s High Line
Maximilíano Durón, Weis Family Files Counterclaim in Suit Over $4 M. Pierre Soulages Painting
Leigh Anne Miller, Tyler Mitchell Wins $250,000 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum
Brian Boucher, UK Temporarily Bans Export of a ‘Small But Mighty’ Italian Renaissance Bronze Valued at $6.1 M.
Maximilíano Durón, Codex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues Centuries-Long Quest for Repatriation
Brian Boucher, Metropolitan Museum of Art Strikes a Deal with Nigeria for Long-Term Loan of Three Major Artworks
Francesca Aton, A Fragment of a Peace Treaty Between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires Discovered in Hattusa, Turkey
Francesca Aton, Met Museum Repatriates Five Pieces of Looted Cretan Armor to Greece
Daniel Cassady, Christie’s Wins Battle for Herbert Lust Collection, Expected to Fetch More Than $50 M.
ArtReview
Stephanie Bailey, What Are Artists Like At 25?
Jenny Wu, Notes from New York: Antisocial Gallery Guide
Mark Rappolt, ‘The Art of Opposition’ by Courttia Newland, Reviewed
ArtReview, Tyler Mitchell wins 2026 Don Tyson Prize
ArtReview, Theme and artists for inaugural Bienal de Yucatán announced
Oliver Basciano, Carolina Caycedo’s Raw Materials
Financial Times
Frieze
From the Editors, 7 Shows to See During Armory Art Week 2026
From the Editors, ‘Sentient Earth’ Doesn’t Offer Visions of a Sustainable Future
The Guardian
Sam Moore, ‘We live in a world of extreme consumption and waste’: Magali Reus, the artist reimagining rubbish
Emma Madden, Lesbian artists celebrated in three new California exhibitions: ‘Long overdue’
Chloë Ashby, ‘Sometimes I do cruel things – and it’s worth it’: the fabulous shameless art of the great Sophie Calle
Jonathan Jones, Magritte: This Is Still Not a Pipe review – brilliance and trash from the surrealist who sent up Freud
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, How Tarot Survived for 500 Years
Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: If I Have a Day Job, Am I a Real Artist?
Rhea Nayyar, Met Museum Brokers Return of Three Artworks to Nigeria
Anna Lee, Duo Calls to Oust Leon Black in Protest Outside MoMA
AX Mina, Tarot for a Broken World
Rhea Nayyar, Armory Week is Here
Amit Noy, Sarah Michelson’s Delicate Fetish Play
Max Blue, 10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Fall
Anna Lee, 10 Public Artworks to See Across the US This Fall
The Los Angeles Times
Laura Zornosa, Cassatt, Degas, Renoir: Armand Hammer’s more than $25-million private art collection arrives at Sotheby’s L.A.
The New York Times
Nina Siegal, Adam Pendleton Is Painting the White Cube Black
Sarah Bahr, Was Mary Magdalene a Sinner or a Saint? Artists Weigh In
Ted Loos, Florian Krewer, a German-Born New York Painter, Explores the Spaces Between
Ray Mark Rinaldi, In Brazil, a Museum Renovation Celebrates Overlooked Artists
Observer
Elisa Carollo, The Herbert Lust Collection Lands at Christie’s, Led by a $30M Giacometti
Siddhant Adlakha, Best of TIFF: Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Debut’
Joshua Mellin, TIFF Remains a Launchpad Even as the Festival Blurs the Line Between Fandom and Industry
Melissa Baksh, Jewel’s First Major Exhibition Merges Science, Myth and Feminine Power
Kumar Sokka, The Art World’s Real Vulnerability Isn’t Theft. It’s the Move.
Jonathan C. Schwartz, The Best Lesson I Learned on the Road as a Traveling Art Handler
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Museum of the City of New York traces 250 years of activism in new permanent show
Adam Schrader, NASA administrator questioned Goddard library review, emails show
Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NASA emails on the Goddard library closure
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