Conservators have reattached two fingers to a 19th-century French statue after a Canadian tourist returned the digits 50 years after stealing them.

The tourist told staff at the Chateau de Pierrefonds, north of Paris, he was nine years old when he picked them up after finding the fingers lying on the floor during a visit to the chateau.

Staff told Le Parisien newspaper the fingers returned in a package from Montreal and said they welcomed the gesture after all this time.

The statue is one of a dozen designed by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc which are being restored to go back on public view at the chateau next year.

The first show at Tokyo's Yayoi Kusama Museum since her death includes a Ladder to Heaven installation never seen in Japan before.

The show, which runs to the end of January, includes sketches made in the 1950s as well as recent paintings.

It ends with the ladder which leads to a new rooftop version of Narcissus Garden - the stainless steel spheres she sold for $2 each at the 1966 Venice Biennale before security put a stop to her unofficial show.

Kusama, who died in August aged 97, is currently the subject of a major retrospective at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum.

The show was previously at Cologne's Museum Ludwig where it attracted more than 480,000 visitors making it the most successful show in its history.

French police who recovered two stolen Renoir paintings say they prevented a further museum break-in in the process.

The works, valued at around $4.7 million, were taken from the Renoir Museum near Nice last month and found last week hidden behind a false wall.

Six suspects were arrested with Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone telling reporters the arrests were brought forward after one of them was seen visiting the Maeght Foundation, also near Nice, which is home to works by Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth and Jorg Immendorff.

He said he did "not believe the principal suspect visited that museum simply out of a love of art".

Both stolen works have been damaged and one of them, Madame Colonna Romano, has been torn.

1 - Luca Rossi has won Art Verona's 2026 Sustainable Art Prize. The Italian artist was commended for his Hidden Works series which features covered-up paintings that can only be unveiled by the collector.

2 - An historic pink diamond is going on show in a new exhibition opening Saturday at the Conde Museum in Chantilly near Paris - almost 100 years to the day since it was stolen. The jewel was stolen on October 12, 1926, and found hidden inside an apple two months later when a hotel chambermaid bit into it.

3 - The Acropolis in Athens had 4.6 million visitors last year - an all-time high for the historic site. The attendance, which was equal to 12,600 people a day, was so high a limit on visitor numbers was introduced.

4 - Tarek Atoui has enlisted Issey Miyake's head designer Satoshi Kondo for his Hyundai Commission which opens in London's Tate Modern today. The fashion firm helped develop a fabric coated in graphite paint which will generate music as it moves in the air in the building's Turbine Hall.

5 - Louise Giovanelli is the recipient of this year's Robson Orr TenTen Award previously won by artists including Lubaina Himid and Hurvid Anderson. The award, sponsored by Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr, covers the cost of a limited edition print of her work with 15 displayed in UK government buildings and embassies around the world and 11 sold to raise money to buy work by artists under-represented in the government collection.