Greek demands that London's British Museum return the Parthenon Sculptures have finally borne fruit - in the shape of a 3 by 4.5 inch marble fragment.

The artifact, dating to the 6th century BC and believed to have come from the Acropolis, was returned by a Chilean collector who said he had been moved by Greece's efforts to reclaim the sculptures and contacted the embassy in Santiago to arrange it.

Its return was hailed by Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni who said antiquities were part of the nation's "collective identity".

The decades-long Greek campaign seeks to repatriate the marbles that once decorated the temple on the Acropolis in Athens, but were removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and acquired by the museum in London in 1816.

Their rightful ownership has been disputed for decades but under the chairmanship of former politician George Osborne, the British Museum is reportedly in talks with the Acropolis Museum over a possible long-term loan deal.

Anish Kapoor has listed his New York apartment for $17.75 million which comes complete with one of his own works outside.

A smaller version of his Cloud Gate sculpture, which is on show in Chicago, sits outside the 57-story tower in Tribeca that he called home in Manhattan.

His apartment on the 47th floor includes four bedrooms as well as access to a pool, a screening room and a private dining room.

The skyscraper was designed by star architects Herzog & de Meuron and is known locally as the Jenga Building because of its blocky design.

The estimated cost of moving the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. An act proposing the move was signed into law this month but an amendment opposing it will be voted on soon.

Filmmaker George Lucas said his long-planned museum will be "a temple to the people’s art".

The Star Wars producer talked about his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open next year in Los Angeles, during a panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, yesterday.

Joined onstage by fellow filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, film designer Doug Chiang and singer Queen Latifah, Lucas told the 6,000-strong audience: "Society cannot exist without a common belief system. And that’s where illustration is vital to show you what that means in everyday life."

The museum, planned by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson Lucas, has not been without its problems - it recently announced the departure of its executive director and laid off another 22 staff - but can draw on a collection including work by Beatrix Potter, Jack Kirby, Carrie Mae Weems, Diego Rivera and Norman Rockwell as well as items from the history of comics such as a 1934 Flash Gordon strip, early Peanuts cartoons and original Black Panther pages from 1968.

A self-taught Singaporean photographer who had his first exhibition aged 81 has died at the age of 88.

Lui Hock Seng, who was diagnosed with cancer seven years ago, was working as a cleaner when his pictures first began attracting public attention.

He spent more than 60 years pounding the streets and capturing images of a Singapore that has now all but disappeared.

His solo show at the Objectifs art center was followed by a book of his work and he was hailed as a "brilliant example of active aging” by the Prime Minister of Singapore.

1 - The spotlight is being turned on an often-overlooked female Old Master with a new show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The show dedicated to Flemish Baroque painter Michaelina Wautier will run from September 30 to February 22.

2 - Some visitors to this year's Aspen Art Fair, which opens tomorrow and runs to August 2, are being offered private home tours of prominent collectors including Ernesto and Cecilia Poma. The couple, who are patrons of New York's Museum of Modern Art, are the owners of a significant collection of Latin American art.

3 - Maria Smorzevskihh-Smirnova, the Director of Estonia's Narva Museum, has been charged by Russia with the "rehabilitation of Nazism" for displaying a huge poster accusing Vladimir Putin of war crimes and including an image merging his features with those of Adolf Hitler. Smorzevskihh-Smirnova was put on the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs' most wanted list last year - a move she described as "a great honor".