Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Is the Price Right? At New York Fairs, Everyone’s Seeking the Perfect Number by Katya Kazakina for Artnet. New York’s fall art fairs reveal a cautious but active market, with galleries finding that more accessible pricing is helping attract buyers.
Art in America
Kelly Presutti, “From Monet and Manet to Money”: A Berlin Museum Spotlights the Dealer Who Made Impressionism an International Sensation
The Art Newspaper
Martin Bailey, Buyer of mysterious $9m Rembrandt painting revealed
The Art Newspaper, International designers collaborate with creators from Japan at London’s V&A
Christoph Irmscher, New biography reveals the rich life of the ‘studiously self-effacing’ artist Anni Albers
Vivienne Chow, Chinese opera, queerness and Cantopop star Leslie Cheung: artist Isaac Chong Wai on the inspirations for his new performance
Joanna Moorhead, Restorers expose trove of 16th-century nude murals in Rome that were covered by disapproving nuns
Hadani Ditmars, Fourth Toronto Biennial of Art brings more than 30 artists and collectives together around the theme of rupture
Artforum
Evan Lincoln, Evan Lincoln reports from NYC’s September openings
Artnet
Sonia Manalili, Why Buyer’s Fees Keep Rising
EDITOR’S PICK - Katya Kazakina, Is the Price Right? At New York Fairs, Everyone’s Seeking the Perfect Number: The Armory was sedate, and the Independent was mobbed, but work is moving at both.
Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint on September’s Silliest and Sexiest Shows! Poppers, Pikachu, Peep Shows, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip
Katya Kazakina, In the Hot Seat! Are Monumental Armory Show Sculptures Copies?
Richard Whiddington, George Morrison Was Long Overlooked. Now His Market Is Catching Up
Min Chen, ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Props Hit the Block as Memorabilia Market Booms
Annikka Olsen, Inside the Long, Little-Known Tradition of Artists as Healers
Jo Lawson-Tancred, What’s Selling at the Armory Show So Far?
Andrew Russeth, Benedikt Taschen Is Selling a Midcentury Los Angeles Jewel for $25M
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Frieze Abu Dhabi Unveils Exhibitors and Inaugural Curatorial Program
Hikmat Mohammed, Richard Manoogian, Industrialist and Collector of American Art, Has Died at 90
Tessa Solomon, Ai Weiwei Exhibits 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets at Australia Museum
Anne Doran, The Best Booths at Independent 20th Century
Francesca Aton, At 77, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is the First Woman to Receive Top Philippine Honor
Daniel Cassady, Ancient Wall Found in Paris May Solve Mystery of City’s Origins
Hikmat Mohammed, Melania Trump, Peng Liyuan Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
Andy Battaglia, Steven Shearer Wins Canada’s $71,000 Audain Prize
Alex Greenberger, How Good Are Today’s Art Market Darlings, Really? Six New York Gallery Shows Put Them to the Test
Brian Boucher, Heirs of a Jewish Collector Contest Sotheby’s Sale of a Pissarro Painting Possibly Looted by Nazis
Maximilíano Durón, The Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Ghostly Afterimages to ‘Gentle Destruction’
ArtReview
Adeline Chia, How Do You Picture Heat?
Financial Times
Jackie Wullschläger, How the French Riviera shaped modern art
Catherine Ostler, Annabelle Selldorf’s guide to The Frick Collection
Inès Cross, Private Property is furnishing a new gen of art collectors
Maria Shollenbarger, In Rome, a palazzo becomes a self-portrait
Enuma Okoro, When humility is proof of our humanity
Frieze
The Guardian
Jonathan Jones, Painting the French Riviera review – about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate
Dalya Alberge, Rediscovered chalk drawing of child attributed to Édouard Manet
Jonathan Jones, Korea review – a nirvana of wild beauty shattered by the 20th century
James Norman, An epic Melbourne art crawl: how many gallery openings can I cram in in one night?
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Arthur Jafa’s Elegy to America
Hakim Bishara, Thanks, I’m Just Looking
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, No One Is Reading, Except at the New York Art Book Fair
Aaron Short, Here’s What (Dealers Said) Sold at the Armory Show
Stephanie Wambugu, Arthur Jafa, King of Pop
Jasmine Weber, A Tribute to Black Soho Inside a New York Art Fair
Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel
Rhea Nayyar, Spring Break Art Show Tackles Life’s Crushing Burdens
The Los Angeles Times
Miranda Huang, Soviet dissidents bypassed state censorship through art. This L.A. museum wants to show you how
Observer
Elisa Carollo, At Independent 20th Century, the Biggest Draw Is the Rediscoveries
Roberta Naas, Jeff Koons On Balloon Dogs, Time and Why He Changed His Mind About Luxury
Jordan Riefe, While Some Traditional Fairs Scale Back, the Other Art Fair Keeps Growing
Elisa Carollo, The Armory Show’s Strongest Argument for Relevance Comes From Its Youngest Galleries
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, Armory Show closes a quiet edition as Canadian dealers face new U.S. tariffs
The Wall Street Journal
Kelly Crow, The Six-Year Quest to Find the Mystery Woman in an 18th-Century Painting
Diane Cole, ‘Ausländer’ Review: The Lives of Outsiders
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