The Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, has selected the architecture firm OMA to lead its expansion plan, which will involve adding a new wing to the museum’s existing structure. Founded in Rotterdam in 1975 by the celebrated architect Rem Koolhaas, this is the first museum commission in the Unites States for the firm. Shohei Shigematsu, a partner at OMA, will helm the project.

1. This Eliot Noyes-designed home is one of Connecticut’s finest architectural treasures.

In the mid-twentieth century, a number of influential architects, including Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes, settled in New Canaan, Connecticut. Together, they helped turn the bucolic town into a haven for mid-century modern design, peppering the landscape with sleek, sophisticated homes inspired by Walter Gropius—founder of the Bauhaus and a pioneer of Modernist architecture.

Peter Paul Rubens’ The Resurrection of Christ is on view for the first time in eighty years. The work, which was recently authenticated and restored, is being exhibiting at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Catherine the Great gave the painting to Russia’s Trinity Cathedral, where it remained until 1934. After that, the masterpiece spent decades languishing in storage at the Hermitage Museum.

A visitor to the recently revamped  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art tripped and fell into Andy Warhol’s Triple Elvis on Thursday, June 2. While no major damage has been reported, the painting was removed from the gallery and taken to the conservation studio for evaluation. The museum reopened to the public on May 14 following a major renovation and expansion.

On Tuesday, June 21, an important portrait by Amedeo Modigliani will be offered at Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London. The work, which depicts the artist’s muse, Jeanne Hébuterne, has been in a private collection for the past thirty years. The masterpiece is expected to fetch in excess of $40 million—a far cry from Modigliani’s $170 million auction record, which was set in 2015 at Christie’s.

Rembrandt’s first masterpiece, Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver, is currently on view at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The canvas, painted in 1629 when Rembrandt was only twenty-three years old, resides in a private British collection and has never been exhibited in the United States. The exhibition will also include early self-portraits of Rembrandt, created around the same time as Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver.

For most interior designers, there are easy clients, difficult clients, and then there is the hardest client of all: themselves. “When you work with clients, you have lots of parameters,” says Robert Passal, a New York designer known for his traditional-meets-glam style and roster of high-profile clients including Yankees’ All-Star Alex Rodriguez and trendsetting hair stylist Guido Palau. “When you do your own work, the options are unlimited. It can be much more difficult to design for yourself.”

The Vitra Museum has unveiled its new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed gallery in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The new space will allow the Vitra Design Museum to display its permanent collection for the first time. The gallery joins a slew of other architecturally important structures on the museum’s campus, including works by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Tadao Ando. The Vitra Design Museum’s illustrious collection includes over 7,000 pieces of furniture, and the estates of mid century furniture designers including Verner Panton and Charles & Ray Eames.

The influential photographer William Eggleston is the latest artist to join David Zwirner Gallery. For the past five years, Eggleston has been represented by Gagosian Gallery. Zwirner, who represents some of the most sought-after artists working today, including, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, and Luc Tuymans, will mount an exhibition of Eggleston’s photographs from the 1980s in November.

A recently discovered painting by the Belgian artist James Ensor realized $1.1 million at an auction in Vienna on Tuesday, May 31. The painting, which was created between 1925 and 1930, was first owned by Simone Breton—an art dealer and wife of the Surrealist pioneer, Andre Breton. The work has remained in the Breton family until now. The current auction record for a work by James Ensor is $6.9 million.

The Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay have closed their doors as the nearby Seine River continues to rise, threatening dangerous flooding. Both institutions have emergency plans in place and will relocate collections as the need arises. According to a statement from the Louvre, the museum has already begun moving works from an underground storage facility to higher floors. After days of rain, Paris’ city center has been placed on an orange-level floor alert.

1. Haverford Original by Eberlein Design Consultants

This stunning home posed a unique challenge for designer Barbara Eberlein: how to integrate the two divergent backgrounds of its owners—his dramatic southern Californian and her exotic Dutch-Indonesian—seamlessly? Eberlein embarked on a comprehensive renovation, transforming the 1930s Georgian structure into an oasis of rich colors, sensual textures, and gleaming woods.

After losing funding last year, UC San Diego has decided to shutter its University Art Gallery for good. The announcement coincides with the gallery’s fiftieth anniversary. The university, which has seen a swell in enrollment, will convert the gallery into classrooms. UC San Diego will now be the only University of California school without a major on-campus art gallery.

After a lengthy legal battle between Tower Hamlets Council in east London and Bromley Council in south London, the Court of Appeal has ruled that Henry Moore’s Draped Seated Woman belongs to Tower Hamlets. The work, which currently resides in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Yorkshire, will be moved to a more secure location in east London.

Italy is in the midst of an international search for new directors to lead its most notable museums and heritage sites. Officials hope that bringing in accomplished professionals from abroad will help reinvigorate Italy’s cultural sector. Last year, the country appointed foreigners to helm a number of its most high-profile museums, including the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York will send a number of masterpieces from its collection, including works by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, to the National Gallery of Victoria. Many of the works have never been on view in Australia. Masterworks from MoMA will open in 2018.

1. This architectural wonder boasts unmatched views of the Pacific—This home, designed by the California-based architect Don Edson, is meant to mimic the sculptural, alabaster structures found in Santorini, Greece. One of only ten homes set on Marine Street Beach—one of La Jolla’s most desirable beaches—the residence features an abundance of arched windows and walls of glass that dramatically frame the astonishing ocean views.

A Ukrainian art collector has returned a stolen Old Master painting to the Netherlands’ Westfries Museum. The work, Isaak Ouwater's Nieuwstraat in Hoorn, is one of twenty-four paintings stolen from the institution in 2005. The canvas is the fifth piece taken during the robbery to be successfully recovered. The identity of the collector has not been revealed.

American art scholar Alexander Nemerov will deliver six talks in 2017 as part of the National Gallery of Art’s A.W. Mellon Lecture Series. Nemerov, who teaches art history at Stanford University, will discuss the work of painters like Thomas Cole and John Quidor as part of the series titled The Forest: America in the 1830s. Launched in 1949, the A.W. Mellon Lecture Series was founded “to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts.”

Xavier Bray has been named Director of the Wallace Collection in London. Bray, an expert in Spanish Golden Age art, is currently chief curator at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Located in the historic Hertford House, the Wallace Collection features twenty-five galleries filled with French eighteenth-century painting, furniture and porcelain, as well as Old Master paintings and arms and armor.