Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is An Unequal Artist Legacy Field Defines Who Gets to Be Remembered by Anna Lee for Hyperallergic. A report by Joan Mitchell Foundation highlights systemic inequities in artist legacy work, particularly for underrepresented artists.
Art in America
Emily Watlington, A Leonor Fini Retrospective Provokes Surrealism’s Fascination with Youthful Femininity
Andy Battaglia, Art in America Celebrates Fall “Icons” Issue with Talk Featuring William T. Williams and Nari Ward
The Art Newspaper
Lisa Abend, Painting believed to be a newly discovered Goya to go on show at Museo del Prado in 2028
Garry Shaw, Comment | Why drones are a game-changer for archaeologists protecting heritage sites
James Imam, Florence exhibition celebrates the beauty of art that has been broken into pieces
Eve M. Kahn, Art made with human hair from ‘the Louvre of hairwork’ comes to Brooklyn
Hadani Ditmars, Steven Shearer wins Audain Prize, one of Canada’s top art awards
Lise Alves, Lucia Laguna, Brazilian painter of verdant and fragmented cityscapes, has died, aged 85
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Giant Diego Rivera sculpture on Mexico City’s Olympic stadium to be restored
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, AI can strengthen human connections to museums, report suggests
Kabir Jhala, Why one of Berlin’s hottest young galleries has relocated to London
Gareth Harris, Yves Goldstein to depart as director-general of Brussel’s upcoming Kanal museum immediately following opening weekend
Artforum
From the Editors, Chiharu Shiota and Mami Kataoka Named to l’Ordre d’Arts et Lettres by French Republic
From the Editors, German Artists Arrested at Louvre for Installing Their Art Near the Mona Lisa
From the Editors, Architect Frida Escobedo to Design Malba Expansion
From the Editors, U.K. Bans Export of “Exquisite” Renaissance Statuette
J. Hoberman, Corporate Cartoon Capers
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Sharon Lockhart’s Moving Still Life
Artnet
Ben Davis, Anna Weyant’s Blood-Stained Banner Graces the Met Opera
Richard Whiddington, The Getty Scoops Up Newly Discovered Velázquez Painting
Andrew Russeth, In Seoul, New Museums Honor Dansaekhwa Pioneers
Eileen Townsend, Tala Madani on the Messy Business of Painting
Richard Whiddington, Storm King to Stage First-of-Its-Kind Ellsworth Kelly Sculpture Show
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, A Look Around London Design Festival and London Fashion Week Where Art and Design Collide
Daniel Cassady, After a $105 M. Memorabilia Blockbuster, Christie’s Launches a Pop Culture Division
Leigh Anne Miller, Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich Returns Painting to Great-Grandson of Jewish Collector Who Fled Germany in 1938
Sarah Douglas, How Collectors Jon and Kim Shirley Stepped In to Restore the Senate Building’s Famed Calder
Alex Greenberger, El Museo del Barrio Apologizes for Renting Space to Event that Aired 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Francesca Aton, Amateur Archaeologist With a Metal Detector Finds 934 Roman Silver Coins in a Field in Western Germany
Alex Greenberger, The Only Shocking Thing About Jordan Wolfson’s Gagosian Show Is How Boring It Is
Devorah Lauter, Lucia Laguna, Brazilian Artist Who Got Late But Fruitful Start on Painting Career, Has Died
ArtReview
Mia Stern, Kulpreet Singh’s Farming Acts
Pramodha Weerasekera, The Bereft Lands of Ladakh
Martin Herbert, Éric Baudelaire: Creating in the Dark
The Boston Globe
Mark Feeney, From the Hancock to Haverhill: three photographers take an architectural approach
BOMB
Melissa Joseph, One Piece: Bridal Shower
Cultured
Taylor Dafoe, How a Private Members Club Became One of New York’s Most Exciting Art Spaces
Karly Quadros, In His Latest Show, Abstract Painter David Reed Embraces a ‘Terrible Idea’
Whitney Mallett, Five Nights on Elizabeth Street: Whitney Mallett’s Guide to the Fall Openings
Julia Halperin, ‘The House Wasn’t Big Enough for Two Artists’: Inside the Met’s Landmark Krasner and Pollock Show
Frieze
By Murtaza Vali, Must-See: Melissa Joseph Reboots the American Melting Pot
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Turner prize review – soulful cyborgs go into battle with a stack of massive Hobnobs
Rowena Mason and Nadia Khomami, Greek PM: deal to return Parthenon marbles could still be reached with ‘political will and courage’
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Britain would not cut up the Bayeux tapestry. So seize this moment and reunite the Parthenon sculptures in Greece | Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Hyperallergic
Eurídice Arratia, What Happens After Repatriation?
Monica Uszerowicz, What Can Photographs Say in a World Full of Images?
From the Editors, Ari Emanuel Doesn’t Want to Hear the G-Word
Phillip Pyle, The Met to Present First Major Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show in NYC in Decades
EDITOR’S PICK - Anna Lee, An Unequal Artist Legacy Field Defines Who Gets to Be Remembered: A new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation highlights deep structural issues affecting legacy work across the arts.
Anna Lee, Frieze Owner Ari Emanuel Criticizes Macklemore Over Pro-Palestinian Comments
Nageen Shaikh, The Unsung Craftspeople Who Built Ancient Egypt
Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Lucia Laguna, Rodrigo Cass, and Nelson Garrido
Bryan Martin, Thomas Hart Benton’s Sanitized American Idyll
Nereya Otieno, Gather ‘Round, Willie Birch Is Speaking
The New York Times
Max Lakin, The Independent 20th Century Grapples With Heritage
Nina Siegal, When the World Saw van Gogh as ‘a Madman,’ She Saw His Genius
Sam Lubell, The Lucas Museum’s Architect Wants to Help You Escape From Reality
Colin Moynihan, Museum Regrets Renting Space to 9/11 Event That Aired Conspiracy Theories
Observer
Nicolas Vamvouklis, 10 Exhibitions in Warsaw That Capture a Cultural Landscape in Motion
Elisa Carollo, In Tom Wesselmann’s Studio, Tomokazu Matsuyama Considers Pop’s Afterlife
Elisa Carollo, Contemporary Art Enters Istanbul’s Deep Past at Koza Güreli’s Zeyrek Çinili Hamam
J. McMahon, Art Fair Confidential: An Insider’s Look at Staging the Armory Shows of Yesteryear
Puck
Marion Maneker, Storm Queen
The Wall Street Journal
Isaac Sligh, ‘Sightlines: British Landscape Photography, 1840 to Now’ Review: For Camera and Country
Whitehot
Luisa Caldwell, For the 61st International La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Pavilion presents Persistent Notes, curated by Giovanna Zabotti
Natsumi Goldsfish, Cultivating the Sublime: Oscar Oiwa’s The Supplemental Sublime at GOCA Gallery
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