The vast collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has 12 fewer objects than it did at the start of the week after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. ordered it to return a dozen antiquities to Egypt.

The 12 - and another one from a separate collection - were valued at around $2 million and were seized after what the DA's office said were "criminal investigations into three separate antiquities trafficking networks".

Among them was a statue of an Egyptian official named Ankhwennefer, which dated to between 690-650 BCE, and was smuggled out of Egypt in the late 1980s by Parisian antiquities dealer Jean-Louis Domercq.

It was then brought into New York by convicted antiquities dealer Ed Merrin and sold to The Met in 1993.

Bragg said there was "clearly still more work to do" against trafficking groups, adding: "Museums and galleries in Manhattan should not be filled with looted or stolen cultural artifacts."

The Belgian national soccer team is bringing a dash of surrealism to this year's World Cup.

Their away shirt is inspired by the art of Rene Magritte complete with the phrase "Ceci n'est pas un maillot," which translates as "This is not a jersey," hidden in the neckline in a nod to the painter's famous work The Treachery of Images which includes the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

Members of the squad, known as the Red Devils, even posed in bowler hats with their faces obscured by apples for the kit launch referencing another Magritte work The Son of Man.

The tournament kicks off on June 11 when Mexico play South Africa and is being jointly hosted by Mexico, Canada and the United States.

Washington DC's National Gallery of Art said it will use "a transformational gift" of $116 million from philanthropist Mitch Rales to fund its program lending treasures from its collection across the nation.

The museum launched the Across the Nation program two years ago and said the gift, one of the largest in its history, will fund it "in perpetuity".

Rales, who is reported to be worth $4 billion, founded the private Glenstone museum with Emily Wei Rales. Reports the couple may be divorcing fueled speculation about what would happen to their personal art collection if they did split.

The Across the Nation program has reached nearly 900,000 visitors across 10 partner museums since the first loans last spring.

Rales said he had "long admired" the gallery's commitment to sharing its collection, adding: "Endowments are the superpower of nonprofits, enabling institutions to fulfill their missions."

1 - Work bought by a 14-strong group of South Korean collectors over almost a decade is going on show together for the first time. Pieces by Robert Longo, Olafur Eliasson, David Hockney and Anicka Yi are among those exhibited in Tracing the Unfinished in the city of Daejeon, around 87 miles from Seoul, until Sunday.

2 - Sculptor Antony Gormley is interviewed on the Making Space podcast produced by the Roundhouse arts center in London which is available here from today. His 2005 work You, a cast-iron sculpture based on his own body, sits on top of the building which re-opened in 2006 after a multi-million dollar restoration project.

3 - Marian Goodman Gallery is closing the doors of its Los Angeles outpost for the time being to "evaluate the next phase for the space". A statement sent to ARTnews said the gallery, which has only been open for two and a half years, would shut when its Tacita Dean show ends on Saturday.

4 - It is back to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. A former chief curator at the Washington DC museum, she has been named its new director after a stint in charge of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

5 - Slovakian painter Stanislava Kovalcikova has won this year's Reiffers Art Prize and will receive a grant and a commission for an artwork to join the collection of the Paris-based foundation. Her work along with that of seven other selected artists can be seen in an exhibition, Tinkering with the Unknown, at the Reiffers Art Center in the French capital until June 6.

6 - Wangechi Mutu is the latest recipient of the UK National Gallery's contemporary fellowship. The Kenyan-born artist, who divides her time between Nairobi and New York, will collaborate with the London gallery and the Whitworth in Manchester over two years to make new work inspired by their collections.