The number of years since Nicephore Niepce took the View from the Window at Le Gras - the world's oldest surviving photograph. The landmark anniversary of the image is being celebrated in his native France this year with a 12-month-long celebration of the medium.

It takes some doing to lose a 26-foot-tall steel sculpture but that is what happened to a major Harry Bertoia work that has finally found a permanent new home after being rediscovered.

The work, in the form of large clouds made from steel wire coated in brass and bronze, was commissioned in 1970 for a shopping mall in Flint, Michigan, but disappeared for decades after being moved to a second mall which was demolished.

It was feared lost but was discovered in 2017 buried beneath layers of dirt in the basement of the demolished building and has now been installed in General Motors HQ in Detroit after being restored to its former glory.

Italian-born Bertoia went to art school in the US city and his first public sculpture was commissioned by the auto firm for one of its buildings.

A pair of stone lions that have stood guard at the entrance to Korea's first-ever private art museum for almost 90 years are on the move.

The statues are being returned to China by the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, as part of a deal signed yesterday by the two countries and witnessed by their respective presidents.

It comes after Chinese experts examined the lions and concluded the marble statues were originally built for a royal residence sometime during the Qing Dynasty which lasted from 1644 to 1911.

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos will fill the sculpture court of London's Barbican art center with a huge plant-covered circle made from clay and soil.

Opening in May, it is her first public installation in the UK with visitors invited to walk through the work which will have a circumference of around 24-meters.

It is the first large-scale commission in the outdoor space in a decade and is described by the Barbican's director for arts and participation Devyani Saltzman as a response to the center's "iconic brutalist architecture".

1 - Tributes have been paid to Boston-based collector and philanthropist John Axelrod after he was killed in a hit-and-run crash. The 79-year-old was a donor to the city's Museum of Fine Arts which named a gallery in his honor in 2009. A 42-year-old man has been arrested and faces a murder charge.

2 - Australia's Artbank, a publicly owned collection of 11,000 artworks which can be borrowed at low cost by the public, is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a series of exhibitions. It comes after plans to mark its 40th anniversary were canceled due to the pandemic.

3 - Suzanne Landau is stepping down as CEO of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after two years in charge. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported she told staff she was leaving at an end-of-year party and the museum confirmed the "process of selecting a new CEO is in advanced stages".

4 - Tributes have been paid to Welsh painter, writer and journalist Molly Parkin who has died aged 93. She sat as a model for artists including Bridget Riley and made her name as a painter before a decades-long artistic block prompted her to switch to fashion journalism and writing raunchy novels. She gave up drinking in the 1980s and started painting again with her most recent London show opening last September.