Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale, held Tuesday, April 19, in New York, garnered $29.9 million. The auction was led by a cushion brilliant-cut fancy purple/pink diamond ring weighing 12.45 carats, which netted $4.6 million. A 9.54-carat blue diamond ring once owned by Shirley Temple was also up for grabs, but failed to find a buyer. The cushion-cut stone, which was gifted to the child star by her father in 1940, was expected to fetch $25-$35 million.

Five paintings by the Pop Art pioneer James Rosenquist are on view in Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd’s former SoHo residence/studio. The installation was helmed by Judd’s son, Flavin. The five-story structure, which is operated by the Judd Foundation, opened to the public in 2013, following a comprehensive renovation.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced that its long-time Director, Elizabeth Broun, will retire at the end of 2016. Broun has helmed the American Art Museum as well as the Renwick Gallery for twenty-seven years. During her time at the institutions, Broun oversaw major renovations of both of the museums’ historic buildings.

A brooch made by the post-Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin, for his wife, Mette, is currently on view at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Created using a piece of scrap metal, a glass watch-dial case, and a lock of hair, the object is considered to be one of the first ready-mades. The sentimental piece is believed to have been created in the early 1870s.

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch its highly anticipated spring show on Thursday, May 5. Manus x Machina, which features designs by Hubert de Givenchy, John Galliano, and Issey Miyake, will explore the intersection between technology and fashion. Architect Shohei Shigematsu, who runs the New York branch of the much-lauded Dutch firm OMA, has transformed the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing to complement the show.

Massachusetts’ Fuller Craft museum, a robust and dynamic institution dedicated to all things craft, has received a $1 million gift from the Joan Pearson Watkins Revocable Trust. The sizeable donation commemorates the institution’s dedication to collecting and exhibiting contemporary craft—a venture that became the focus of the museum’s mission in 2004.

1. A Tahiti Beach Residence by Michael Wolk Design Associates. The inhabitants of this Coral Gables home enlisted designer Michael Wolk to create interiors that complemented the abode’s organic architecture. Inspired by Miami’s supremely stylish mid century hotels, Wolk opted for an aesthetic he calls Neo-Modern—a combination of bold American design and classic European refinement.

The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has announced that it will host a major David Hockney exhibition beginning November 2016. The show will feature over 700 works, including the artist’s new digital and animated drawings. Hockney, a pioneer of the British Pop Art movement of the 1960s, is best known for his flat, colorful portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

Few architectural movements have been as divisive as Brutalism. Born from the Modernist style that prevailed during the first half of the twentieth century, Brutalism, which flourished between the 1950s and 1970s, is characterized by hulking, expressive forms that emphasize materials (often concrete) and construction. A new book, Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, aims to shed light on the often misunderstood movement.

London’s Herrick Gallery is selling two pastels and eight drawings said to be by Francis Bacon for approximately $1.7 million. While the gallery’s owner believes that the works are in fact by Bacon, they were rejected by the author of a forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work. The drawings are being sold by Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino, one of Bacon’s former lovers.

Mark Bradford, a much lauded abstract painter, has been selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Bradford’s exhibition, which is being presented by Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, will feature new works by the artist. Held every other year, the Venice Biennale is one of the most prestigious exhibitions of contemporary art in the world.

1. Rupert Murdoch’s light-filled Manhattan townhouse hits the market...again. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has listed his West Village townhouse for the second time in two years. Located in a Greek Revival building dating back to 1853, the light-filled, four-bedroom residence has been thoroughly renovated and restored.

Eleven lithographs by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the corporate collection of Portigon AG—a financial services company headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany. Employees noticed suspicious vault activity in 2014 and a subsequent investigation revealed that twelve artworks were missing from the bank’s collection. The Picasso works are estimated to be worth approximately $1.2 million.

Ann Freedman, the former director of New York’s Knoedler & Company, has finally broken her silence following a forgery case that sent shockwaves through the art world. Freedman, who resigned in 2009, two years before news broke that the gallery had sold $70 million worth of fake Abstract Expressionist paintings, sat down with The Art Newspaper for an exclusive interview—her first in several years.

On Wednesday, April 13, the U.S. Senate unanimously voted to ban the important of antiquities and ancient art from Syria. Officials hope the move will help put an end to the looting and trafficking of stolen artifacts by the Islamic State, which has been ransacking heritage sites across Syria and Iraq.

Four paintings from the Dutch Golden Age have been recovered in Ukraine. The masterpieces, which date back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were stolen from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, Netherlands, in 2005, and held for ransom by a far-right Ukrainian militia. Over twenty-four paintings were looted during the theft

A drawing by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas has been donated to the UK under the nation’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The work, painted between 1887 and 1980, depicts a woman combing her hair and has never been on public view. The drawing has been allocated to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester and will be exhibited there until August 2016.

The Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland will reopen on Sunday, April 17, following a year-long renovation. The institution will inaugurate its new space with an exhibition dedicated to Jackson Pollock’s figurative works—a lesser known aspect of the artist’s largely abstract oeuvre. Opening in October, the show will bring together about 100 works, fifty of which are on loan from major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s popular Roof Garden Commission series has seen a bamboo forest and a maze of steel and mirrored glass constructed on top of the institution’s Beaux-Arts building. For this year’s installation, which opens on Tuesday, April 19, British artist Cornelia Parker has created a replica of the Bates house from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho. Parker used materials from an abandoned, early-twentieth century barn in upstate New York to build the twenty-eight-foot-high structure.

Tate Modern’s newly expanded building will open to the public on Friday, June 17. With approximately sixty-percent more exhibition space, the institution has retooled its focus and aims to place a greater emphasis on international art. When the revamped museum opens, seventy-five-perfect of the works acquired since 2000 will be on view and artists from over 300 countries will be represented.