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Teresita Fernández at the Fresco Building, the Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Sarah Hobson New York–based artist Teresita Fernández has been revealed as the first artist in a new commissions program for the reopening of the Menil Collection’s Fresco Building in late 2027. The historic structure, which has been closed since 2018, will be repurposed for semi-permanent, site-specific commissions.

Amedeo Modigliani, Seated Man with a Cane, 1918. Photo: Public domain. A New York Supreme Court judge on June 16 gave billionaire dealer David Nahmad thirty days to return Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane to the family of Jewish antiques dealer Oscar Stettiner, who left it in his Paris shop as he fled the Nazis during World War II. The ruling is the latest twist in a case that has dragged on for eleven years.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, The Obamas: Springing Forth, 2026, acrylic, colored pencils, charcoal, and transfers on paper, 9 x 10'. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner. Commissioned by The Obama Foundation. Photo: Marten Elder In the lead up to the formal opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama revealed their first dual portrait on June 15.

Visitors regard Periodic Sights, 2025, by Lebanese Canadian visual artist Joyce Joumaa, awarded by the 2025 Baloise Prize, at the booth of the gallery Eli Kerrhq during Art Basel on June 17, 2025. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images. The organizers of Art Basel have canceled the Baloise Art Prize, the Art Newspaper reports.

Clockwise from top left: Kelly Akashi, Lisa Alvarado, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Charles Atlas, A.K. Burns, Alex Da Corte, Rodrigo Valenzuela, TT Takemoto, Senga Nengudi, Miguel Luciano, Candice Lin, and Michiko Itatani. Photo: Courtesy of Trellis Art Fund. The Trellis Art Fund has named the dozen artists making up its 2026 Milestone Grant cohort. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $100,000, disbursed in two installments over a two-year period.

Harry Gould Harvey IV. Photo: Norbert Garcia Jr Studio In Read/Watch/Listen, Artforum asks contributors to share three pieces of media worth paying attention to. Here, Fall River-based artist Harry Gould Harvey IV shares his choices. I’m always thumbing through Finnegans Wake. I like its cyclical format and the sheer amount of historical references. Dublin’s Phoenix Park, rising from ashes, three cops, and something about two girls about to kiss.

Russian artist and activist Semyon Skrepetsky stands outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin. Photo by Vasily Krestyaninov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. On June 16, Robert Kuzovkov, a Russian artist and political dissident, was killed outside his home in Biała Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland. Kuzovkov, 44, who often used the artistic name Semyon Skrepetsky, was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and other world leaders.

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Clarence Heyward's "Man in the Garden," pictured with damage from vandals Photo: Houston Museum of African American Culture. The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) revealed last week that a painting depicting a Black man draped in an American flag had been intentionally damaged last month.

José Roca. Photo: Urška Boljkovac, MGLC Archive. MGLC, the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, has appointed Colombian curator José Roca curator of the 37th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, to take place in 2027. Roca was curatorial advisor of BOG25, the inaugural Bogotá International Biennial of Art and the City and the artistic director of the Twenty-Third Biennale of Sydney in 2022.