| Good morning. 🌤️ Today we remember Sam Gilliam, a pioneering, beloved abstract artist who died this weekend at age 88. Also today: Actor Cheech Marin opens a museum of Chicano art in Los Angeles; the FBI raids the Orlando Museum of Art to seize disputed Basquiats; five Native American tribes will co-manage the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, and a lot more, including filmmaker Olivier Assayas's remake of his 1996 film Irma Vep, which itself was a remake. — Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief Become a Member The newly opened Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture — also known as “The Cheech” — celebrates, spotlights, and complicates representations of Chicano art. | Matt Stromberg SPONSORED THE LATEST Sam Gilliam (photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio; courtesy David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles and Pace Gallery) Sam Gilliam, whose draping, color-drenched canvases insisted on the radical potential of abstraction, has died at 88. The US government formally agrees to co-manage the Bears Ears National Monument alongside the Five Tribes of the Bears Ears Commission. The FBI seizes 25 disputed Basquiat works from the Orlando Museum of Art. SPONSORED Convened by Erika Sprey, Lamin Fofana, Sky Hopinka, Emmy Catedral, and Manuela Moscoso, the public program unfolds this summer at CARA in New York City. Learn more. ART & FILM The Detroit-based artist draws from her Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, and African American roots to create a dazzling new ornamental language. | Isabella Segalovich The Project of Independence at MoMA probes the limits of modernist construction in South Asia. | Sanoja Bhaumik SPONSORED Shows at the Hudson Valley’s Hessel Museum of Art feature artists Dara Birnbaum and Martine Syms, as well as new scholarship on Black melancholia as an artistic and critical practice. Learn more. Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good. | Dan Schindel SPONSORED The Bay Area art book fair is back this July with free programming at three different on-site venues, new exhibitors, and fundraising editions from renowned artists. Learn more. FROM THE ARCHIVE “I’m just getting started,” Sam Gilliam says with a playful smile as he watches me take in his Washington, D.C. studio. | Jennifer Samet MOST POPULAR | 