Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Art and copyright: How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate AI by Alexander Herman for The Art Newspaper. Examining AI’s copyright challenges for artists while suggesting licensing agreements could help creators benefit from AI, rather than fear it.
Apollo Magazine
Anna Brady, French art conquers September’s auctions
Will Wiles, How Denys Lasdun made the National Theatre a palace for the people
Edwin Heathcote, Does democracy have an architecture of its own?
Arjun Sajip, Automata for the people: the art of ancient Greek tech
Edward Behrens, AI can’t replace what makes selling art special
Fatima Faizi, Who is working to save Afghanistan’s ancient monuments?
Michael Delgado, At Andrew Edmunds, artistic gossip is always on the menu
Michael Prodger, How Anne Vallayer-Coster made her mark in a man’s world
Charles Darwent, Roy Lichtenstein’s explosive genius
Ben Street, Tintoretto shows us the possibilities of painting
Edward Behrens, ‘Our goal is to promote these artists, not ourselves’: Berry Campbell
Eve M. Khan, The modern women who revolutionised design in Vienna
Michael Delgado, What to see at Art Basel Paris
Jane Morris, What was London’s art scene really like in the ’90s?
Anna Brady, The dinosaur bones leaving a big footprint in the art market
Art in America
Andy Battaglia, Hard Truths: Can Senior Citizens Be Sage Social-Media Ambassadors?
Emily Watlington, Janine Antoni’s Taste of Vision Graces the Cover of our Icons Issue
The Art Newspaper
EDITOR’S PICK - Alexander Herman, Art and copyright: How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate AI: Visual artists may have less to fear from AI than other creatives, but licensing agreements do point the way ahead
Sophia Kishkovsky, Ukraine’s historic Academy of Sciences severely damaged by Russian drone
Carlie Porterfield, Art Basel Miami Beach scales down main gallery sector and floorplan for 2026 edition
Melissa Gronlund, ‘He has committed no offence other than wanting to defend heritage sites’: arrest of Iraqi archaeologists sparks backlash
Alexander Morrison, Sámi artist network wins Munch prize focused on freedom of expression
Hadani Ditmars, Vancouver Art Gallery makes its interim leaders permanent co-chief executives
Elena Goukassian, A friend’s ode to Jean-Michel Basquiat privileges sound over sight
Gareth Harris, Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain
Emma Cieslik, Trump’s Greenland threats become playable arcade game in satiric collective’s latest public art intervention
Martin Bailey, Buyer of mysterious $9m Rembrandt painting revealed
Artforum
From the Editors, Mystery Buyer of $9 Million Misattributed Rembrandt Unmasked
From the Editors, Whitney Union Times Strike Date Ahead of Major Lichtenstein Retrospective
From the Editors, Chng Hak-Peng Appointed New CEO of National Gallery Singapore
From the Editors, Ann Temkin, Influential Chief of Painting and Sculpture at MOMA, to Step Down
From the Editors, Eva Respini and Sirish Rao Named Co-CEOs of Vancouver Art Gallery
From the Editors, Art Basel’s Parent Company Records A Significant Rise In Profits Since Last Year
Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker, Data Dust: The Algorithm’s Atomic Gamble
From the Editors, In About-Face, Hyperallergic Paywalls Content
From the Editors, Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Enslaved Potter David Drake’s Works to His Descendants
From the Editors, Chalk Drawing Found in Private Collection Attributed to Manet
Kasia Redzisz, Kanal’s Kasia Redzisz on the Lessons of Marcia Tucker’s Memoir
From the Editors, Damage to Alicja Kwade Work at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Investigated as “Criminal”
Artnet
Min Chen, Who’s In, Who’s Out? Art Basel Miami Beach Reveals ‘More Focused’ Exhibitor List
Richard Whiddington, Can This Turner Painting Break Its Own Record?
Ben Davis, An Art-Famous Shipwreck Washes Ashore
Rebecca Anne Proctor, As the Gulf Reels From War, Istanbul’s Art Market Absorbs the Shock
Jo Lawson-Tancred, Ann Temkin Is Stepping Down at MoMA—But She’s Not Retiring
Richard Whiddington, Mysterious Drawing Identified as Early Manet Work
Jo Lawson-Tancred, 7 Must-See Museum Shows in London This Fall
Margaret Carrigan, Glenn Ligon Lands a Major Survey at the National Gallery
ARTnews
Hikmat Mohammed, Rare Turner Roman Landscape Painting Heads to Sotheby’s With $66.2 M. Price Tag
Maximilíano Durón, Art Basel Miami Beach Names 272 Exhibitors, With a Major Overhaul to the Fair’s Floor Plan
Hikmat Mohammed, In a Letter to President Trump, Artist Kehinde Wiley Asks to Repurchase His Painting Removed from US Embassy
Alex Greenberger, ARTnews Announces Nominees for Third Annual ARTnews Awards
Maximilíano Durón, The Gwangju Biennale Doesn’t Remove Politics from Art—It Expands Our Understanding of What Politics Is
Leigh Anne Miller, National Gallery of Singapore Announces Chng Hak-Peng Will Replace Eugene Tan as CEO
Andy Battaglia, Pots By Enslaved Artist David Drake Returned to Family from Milwaukee Art Museum
Tessa Solomon, Whitney Union Sets Strike Date Days Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Show
Brian Boucher, Whistleblowers Say Kennedy Center Leaders Put Off Fixing the Same Problems They Now Blame for Closing the Building
Tessa Solomon, Ann Temkin to Step Down as MoMA’s Chief Painting and Sculpture Curator After 18 Years
Brian Boucher, ‘We Can Literally Be in Two Places at Once’: Vancouver Art Gallery Elevates Eva Respini and Sirish Rao to Co-CEOs
Daniel Cassady, Pace Gallery Is Seeking a Tenant for Part of Its New York Headquarters
Hikmat Mohammed, Thomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, At Amant, ‘Sentient Earth’ Redirects the Corporate Gaze to Climate Change
Daniel Cassady, Rare Working Apple-1 Signed by Steve Wozniak Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction
Francesca Aton, Remains of a Roman Temple Discovered in Germany’s Taunus Forest
ArtReview
From the Editors, Ann Temkin, curator who made a radical rehang of the collection, leaves MoMA
From the Editors, Sámi network Dáiddadállu win MUNCH Award
From the Editors, Eugene Tan steps down as CEO of the National Gallery Singapore
Cultured
Schuyler Daffey, Grim Reaper Painter Josh Smith Says It’s Normal to Suffer in the Studio
Julia Halperin and Sam Falb, Here’s Where Media Insiders Actually Get Their News
Financial Times
From the Editors, Nicole Eisenman has no time for heroic poses
From the Editors, PAD’s next-gen gallerists are luring a new wave of collectors
The Guardian
Ekow Eshun, No island of strangers: why I’m using art to unite a fractured nation
Oliver Giles, ‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits
Jonathan Jones, Painting the French Riviera review – about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Whitney Museum Workers Declare Strike
Alex Santana, Teresa Margolles and the Violence We Breathe
Rhea Nayyar, Art in Odd Places Participants Seek Utopia Under Dark Clouds
Emma Cieslik, Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota
Alexis Clements, The Rough-and-Ready Brilliance of Barbara Hammer’s “Nitrate Kisses”
Lori Waxman, Kenzi Shiokava Did It for the Love of It
Rhea Nayyar, Whitney Museum Union Sets Strike Date Ahead of Major Roy Lichtenstein Show
Rebecca Schiffman, A Broomstick in a Man’s World
Ruby City, Ruby City Presents “Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection”
Rhea Nayyar, Museum of the City of New York Inaugurates New Activism Center
The Los Angeles Times
Jenelle Riley, 40 years later, a dream to rival L.A.’s art scene has become Orange County’s cultural epicenter
The New York Times
Holland Cotter, A Knockout Show Resets the Record With ‘Krasner and Pollock’
Zachary Small, Kehinde Wiley Wants to Buy His Embassy Painting Back From Trump
Jason Farago, After a Career Reshaping the Museum of Modern Art, Its Influential Curator Steps Down
Observer
Sarah Moroz, Contemporary Istanbul’s Uneven Roster Saw Foreign Galleries Making the Strongest Case for Turkish Art
Elisa Carollo, Raul De Lara’s Sculptures Ask What Separates Raw Material, Medium and Meaning
Elisa Carollo, At 100, the High Is Considering What It Means to Be a 21st Century Museum
Christa Terry, Observer’s 2026 October Art Fair Calendar (Updated)
Puck
Glenn Adamson, Hot Hand: Tessa Silva, The Milk Sculptor
Urgent Matter
Adam Schrader, NYC’s 2025 election turnout inspired Nasher’s protest art show
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