New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has got used to returning objects from its collection in recent years - more than $95 million worth according to one report - so you can imagine director Max Hollein's delight to be on the other end of a repatriation for once.

He was pictured beaming for a publicity shot with Yemen's ambassador to the US having signed a loan deal that saw two ancient stone fragments move from the country to the museum for "research, conservation, cataloguing, and future displays".

The carved stones were previously voluntarily repatriated to Yemen from a private collection in San Francisco.

Hollein said the museum was "grateful to be entrusted with the care of these artworks" and offered his "deepest appreciation" to the ambassador.

The number of cooling towels ordered for staff at Rencontres d'Arles photography festival as western Europe battles the effects of a heatwave, Le Monde reports. Temperatures are expected to reach 98.6F in the city in the south of France next week.

Not to be outdone by yesterday's announcement of an opening date for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, neighboring Saudi Arabia has announced a $490 million construction contract for its Museum of Contemporary Art.

The institution, known as SAMoCA, will be based in Diriyah near Riyadh which will also be home to an opera house, an arena and up to 40 hotels.

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Hammad, CEO of the country's Museums Commission, said it would be "the epicentre of Saudi modern and contemporary art" and was "designed to document and champion generations of Saudi artists".

The show dedicated to model, Surrealist, and war photographer Lee Miller is making its third and final stop in Chicago next month.

Lee Miller: Fearless has already been a hit at London's Tate Britain and Paris's Musée d'Art Moderne where it closes on August 9 before reopening at the Art Institute of Chicago 20 days later.

It traces her career from assistant and lover to Man Ray to a ground-breaking photographer and features around 250 prints.

The Chicago show runs to December 7.

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1 - The Detroit Institute of Arts has been given more than 2,000 works from the estate of collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The gift includes pieces by Diane Arbus, Jenny Holzer, Antony Gormley and Rachel Whiteread.

2 - More than 200 paintings, prints and sculptures by Margaret Preston are going on show in a major exhibition about the Australian modernist. The show runs at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne from September 4 to January 31.

3 - Seoul's National Museum of Korea is offering free entry to its exhibition of Thai art from today until August 2. The show includes more than 200 works and is the first major show of the country's art in South Korea.