The French businessman and art collector Francois Pinault has announced plans to open a private museum in Paris. The luxury goods magnate will showcase part of his illustrious contemporary art collection at the Bourse de Commerce, an eighteenth century building in the city’s 1st arrondissement. Pinault has selected the Japanese architect Tadao Ando to renovate the space. The museum is expected to open in 2018.

This bright and welcoming glass house in Southampton, New York, is like a breath of fresh air. The modernist retreat features mid century furniture that is sleek yet livable, and natural elements throughout, adding an earthy appeal to its sophisticated spaces. The living room, which is outfitted with an organically shaped coffee table, a low-slung sofa and rattan PK 22 lounge chairs by Poul Kjaerholm, exemplifies the effortlessly elegant atmosphere that pervades the home.

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama will bring two installations to Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, beginning in May. The first installations will be Narcissus Garden and Pumpkin, followed by a version of her wildly popular Infinity Room. The installations will commemorate the Glass House’s tenth year as a public institution as well as the 110th anniversary of Johnson’s birth. Completed in 1949, the Glass House is a National Trust Historic Site and an icon of modern architecture.

Tate Britain has loaned Pablo Picasso’s classically inspired Woman in a Chemise to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The work will be on view from Friday, April 29, through July 2017. In addition to the Picasso portrait, the museum will receive another major loan in the fall—Rene Magritte’s L’Anniversaire, which belongs to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

The Walton Family Foundation—a philanthropic organization established by Walmart founders Sam and and Helen Walton—has donated $10 million to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The bequest was made in honor of John Wilmerding, a curator, deputy director and trustee at the museum, as well as a celebrated American art scholar. The donation will help establish the John Wilmerding Fund for Education in American Art. Wilmerding also served as a primary advisor for Walmart heiress Alice Walton, when she established the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2011.

The estate of Lucian Freud has left a previously unseen self-portrait by the British artist to the UK via the nation’s acceptance in lieu scheme. The unfinished painting, which was created in the mid-1980s, will go on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Freud’s estate has already left sketchbooks, drawings, and letters belonging to the artist to the nation.

1. This courthouse-turned-flat is as cool as it gets.

This three-bedroom residence brings tons of modern style to a historic structure in London’s West Kensington neighborhood. Located in a Grade II listed building that once served as a courthouse, the home features dramatic, thirty-five-foot vaulted ceilings, a mezzanine area, and a courtyard garden.

Abstract Expressionism will be well-represented at Christie’s Postwar and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Tuesday, May 10. In addition to a 1957 canvas by Mark Rothko, the auction will include Clyfford Still’s 1948 work, PH-234. Paintings by Still rarely appear at auction as the majority of his works reside in public institutions. PH-234 is expected to fetch $25-$35 million.

The Bank of England has announced that the English painter JMW Turner will adorn the UK’s new £20 note. Turner, who is best known for his singular use of light in his landscape and seascape paintings, was a key influence behind many of Europe’s most important artistic movements, including Impressionism. Turner will replace the economist Adam Smith, who has been featured on the bill since 2012. In addition to a self-portrait by Turner, the note will feature his painting The Fighting Temeraire.

Two years after closing its doors to the public, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is preparing for a major reveal. On Saturday, May 14, the institution will unveil its newly renovated (and considerably expanded) home. Designed by the celebrated architecture firm Snøhetta, the revamped structure boasts three times the gallery space as its predecessor. The size increase will held accommodate the collection of Gap-cofounders, Donald and Doris Fisher.

The Victoria & Albert Museum has received a hefty donation from Leonard Blavatnik—a Ukraine-born businessman who emigrated to the US in the 1970s and currently lives in London. Although the sum of the gift has yet to be disclosed, it’s rumored to number in the millions. The donation comes at a pivotal time for the London institution as it is in the midst of numerous projects, including a major extension.

Italian authorities have recovered three fifteenth-century paintings that were stolen by Nazis troops from the grand duke of Luxembourg’s Tuscan villa during World War II. The works—a Madonna with Child attributed to Cima da Conegliano, the Trinity by Alessio Baldovinetti, and the Presentation of Jesus to the Temple by Girolamo dai Libri—are currently being held at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.

Wilma Tisch, the billionaire heiress and widow of former CBS Corp. CEO, Laurence Tisch, is suing a Florida gallery owner over a Picasso painting that she claims was stolen from her home. Tisch, who inherited Pablo Picasso’s La Penseuse from her late husband, says the painting has been missing since 2009. Tisch decided to pursue legal action after learning that the Florida dealer was trying to sell the painting in New York.

A recent investigation into France’s Sherlock database, which catalogues the inventories of national cultural centers, revealed that the country has lost track of nearly 23,000 pieces of state-owned art. While most missing works are the result of poor documentation, others have been stolen. Among the elusive works are a mahogany bed that should be in the Palace of Versailles and a Joan Miro tapestry that was loaned to the French embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has received a whopping $100 million from entertainment tycoon David Geffen. The funds will go toward the institution’s $440 million expansion and renovation plan, which is currently underway. MoMA will name three floors of its new, Jean Nouvel-designed space the David Geffen Wing, and the institution’s existing fourth-floor exhibition space will be renamed the David Geffen Galleries. An avid collector, Geffen’s estimated worth is around $6.8 billion.

The Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum—two of San Francisco’s most popular museums—are planning to raise admission rates for adults from $10 to $15. The museums’ trustees say that the increase will allow the institutions to offer free first Tuesdays and free entry for children under eighteen. Both museums are operated by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

It’s safe to say that Jennifer Mehditash is something of a Renaissance woman. The owner of a bi-coastal interior design firm, founder of the popular design blog Dec-a-Porter, and an Editor-at-Large for California Home + Design, Mehditash got her start in the art world. After studying Modern Art at Christie’s, Mehditash moved to Portugal, where she landed a job at Sotheby’s.

The Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, have delayed plans to exhibit works from Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi-era art hoard. The collection, which includes works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Marc Chagall, has been cloaked in controversy since Gurlitt bequeathed it to the Kunstmuseum upon his death in 2014. The museums had planned to showcase the works this winter, but a court in Munich will not rule on a challenge to Gurlitt’s will until after September, leaving the collection in limbo.

A new book published by Aperture will explore the oeuvre of fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe. The head photographer at Harper’s Bazaar for more than twenty-two years, Dahl-Wolfe is best known for her relaxed approach to fashion photography, which previously employed a more staid aesthetic. Dahl-Wolfe was also an early champion of color photography and mastered the art of reproducing her images, catching the subtle hues and gradations that brought them to life.

The diary of Surrealist icon Salvador Dali will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris on Tuesday, April 26. The unpublished work, which is filled with nudes, abstract sketches and expense calculations, is expected to fetch around €50,000. The diary is part of a private collection that includes personal mementos from some of the most well-known dada and surrealist artists, including Max Ernst and René Magritte.