Welcome to Art Spell, a daily, comprehensive roundup of art news and reviews for the visual arts community. Today’s Editor’s Pick is Why Cultivating Young Patrons Matters More Than Ever for Art Institutions by Rose Easton, Flavia Frigeri and Ivana Cholakova for Frieze. A program by The National Portrait Gallery aims to engage younger patrons through exhibitions, studio visits and other in-person art experiences.
Art Asia Pacific
Elaine W. Ng, Depot Reborn: Interview With Olivier Marty of Studio KO
Harison Butler, National Gallery of Victoria Senior Executive Accused of $8 Million Theft
The Art Newspaper
Keith Miller, Meet Alan Dunn, the New Yorker cartoonist who put Modernism in its place
Allison C. Meier, Staten Island’s historic Britton Cottage gets $2.1m transformation
Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, Relocation of ancient Maya structures to make way for railway prompts legal challenge
Sophia Kishkovsky, Ukrainian Museum in New York marks 50th anniversary by showing collection to its neighbours
Martha Lufkin, Two Nazi loot claims may test California statute intended to remove roadblocks to restitution
Gabriella Angeleti, Workers at the Whitney Museum vote to strike
Alex Wang, Pola Museum reveals new direction—but stays true to to its large trove of Monets
J.S. Marcus, Copenhagen’s Glyptotek is thinking about the Roman Empire with new ancient fashion exhibition
Graciela Ibáñez, Historic Chilean church to be restored after arson attacks
James Imam, Turner painting estimated to make £50m auction record goes on view in Rome
Artforum
From the Editors, Kehinde Wiley Moves to Buy So-Called “Lesbian Picnic” Painting Back from Trump
From the Editors, Three Artists Awarded 2026 MacArthur “Genius” Grants
From the Editors, Frieze Abu Dhabi Announces Curatorial Program for Inaugural Edition
From the Editors, Art Basel Miami Beach Announces Exhibitors and Redesigned Show Floor
From the Editors, Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu Receive Munch Award For Artistic Freedom
From the Editors, Pace Gallery Looks for a Roommate at NYC Flagship
From the Editors, Rare Turner Roman Landscape Unveiled at Sotheby’s
Artnet
Emma-Kate Symons, Paris Pulls Out All the Stops for Cezanne
Richard Whiddington, Kehinde Wiley Offers to Buy Back Painting Removed From U.S. Embassy for Being ‘Woke’
Min Chen, Chicago Exhibition Week Was Bigger Than Ever. Here’s What Caught My Eye
ARTnews
Daniel Cassady, $180 M. Van Gogh Landscape Leads Blaquier-Arrieta Collection of Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces at Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction
Brian Boucher, A Storied Collection of Blotter Acid Art Will Help Launch Northern California’s Inaugural ‘Further’ Triennial
Maximilíano Durón, A New Exhibition Explores How Telenovela Tropes Reveal a Deeper Meaning in Art
Devorah Lauter, A New Documentary Looks at Etel Adnan’s Radical Mind and What She Left Us
Brian Boucher, Sotheby’s London Racks Up Highest-Ever Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at $26.2 M., Setting Nine Artist Records
Maximilíano Durón, Lauren Halsey to Transform the Hollywood Bowl with Immersive World for a Concert Headlined by Erykah Badu
Tessa Solomon, Nicole Eisenman Opens Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’
Anne Doran, Ancient Roman Settlement Discovered in Austria May Be Lost City of Claudivium
Brian Boucher, Senators Blumenthal and Cornyn File Amicus Brief in Case of Heirs Suing for Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Works
Andy Battaglia, Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament to Screen in Eight-Hour Event at New York Masonic Hall
Daniel Cassady, Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet
Maximilíano Durón, Artists Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, and Vincent Valdez Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants
Daniel Cassady, National Gallery of Victoria Executive Accused of Stealing $5.6 M. in Smartphone Scheme
Francesca Aton, Anna Weyant’s Upper East Side Apartment Hits the Market for $3.5 M.
Gabriella Angeleti, MoMA to Stage Eva Hesse’s First Major US Museum Exhibition in Two Decades
Sarah Belmont, New Scientific Analysis on Claude Monet’s The Luncheon Possibly Reveals a Self-Portrait in an Earlier Composition
ArtReview
From the Editors, Stephanie Rosenthal appointed artistic director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Adeline Chia, The Interview: Eko Nugroho
Yuwen Jiang, Zhi Wei Holds the Thread
BOMB
Hanna Dobroszycki, Oscar yi Hou by Hanna Dobroszycki
Brecht Wright Gander, Studio Visit: Yasue Maetake
Financial Times
Kitty Grady, Linocuts for utopia — the radical prints of the Grosvenor School
Frieze
From the Editors, At the Gallery Dinner - A frieze Playlist
Laura McLean-Ferris, The Infinite Worlds of Ryan Gander
Sean Burns, Salman Toor’s Men in the City
Claudia Ross, Jill Magid Knows What Institutions Hide
Ivana Cholakova, Sonia Kazovsky’s Guide to the Playground
Max Andrews, Teresa Solar Abboud Shows Her Bones
EDITOR’S PICK - Rose Easton, Flavia Frigeri and Ivana Cholakova, Why Cultivating Young Patrons Matters More Than Ever for Art Institutions: Gallerist Rose Easton and Chief Curator Flavia Frigeri on the National Portrait Gallery’s patron programme and its mission to build a new community around art and access
The Guardian
Alaina Demopoulos, Abducted, renamed, but still here – the art of the first Native New Yorkers and their fight for their land
Kim Willsher, Van Gogh goes on display before sale of ‘almost mythical’ private collection
Jonathan Jones, Renoir and Love review – ‘The happiest exhibition of the year! Et pourquoi pas?’
Steven Morris, Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
Charlotte Jansen, ‘We got naked and covered ourselves in Vaseline’: Katherine Hubbard on photographing her ailing mother
Hyperallergic
From the Editors, Artists Deserve to Afford Pets
Rhea Nayyar, A Stormy Week of Art in NYC
Anna Lee, Four Artists Win MacArthur “Genius” Grants
Anthony Majanlahti, The Breathtaking Sight of Ancient Rome’s Largest Surviving Wall Mosaic
Rhea Nayyar, How Are Artists Affording Pet Care?
Izzy DeSantis, Four Artists Exploring Sustainable Alternatives to Synthetic Art Supplies
Rhea Nayyar, Unions Reach Tentative Agreements at Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum
Anna Lee, Kehinde Wiley Requests to Buy Back Painting Removed by State Department
Anna Lee, Jean Shin Creates Her Own Anti-War Camouflage
The New York Times
Holland Cotter, A Knockout Show Resets the Record With ‘Krasner and Pollock’
Observer
Saleah Blancaflor, Josh Kushner Valued A24 at $3.5 Billion. Dior and Google Just Proved Him Right.
Sarah Moroz, Constantin Nitsche Wrestles with the Limits of Painting
Elisa Carollo, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka Found a Blueprint for Survival in Ancestral Ways of Making
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