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This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
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Curator Maura Reilly posted an image of compiled gallery gender statistics on Facebook today, a "report card" by anonymous feminist art collective Pussy Galore showing the percentages of women represented by some of the top art galleries in New York City.
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The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater is suing watchmaker Swatch for using one of his works to sell a luxury timepiece.
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Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.
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Hyperallergic has learned that a lawyer representing photographer Donald Graham has sent cease and desist letters to Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery over the unauthorized use of his photograph "Rastafarian Smoking a Joint, Jamaica."
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This week in art news: A 6.5-ton ground-to-air missile was installed beside London's Hayward Gallery, an appellate court ruled in favor of the Met's "pay what you wish" policy, and a Jeff Koons exhibition was cancelled due to "a lack of funding."
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Touching the Prado invites visually impaired people to touch relief replicas of six collection masterpieces.
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The recent HSBC leak, which has revealed that between 2006 and 2007 the bank's Swiss branch helped clients conceal some $102 billion from tax authorities, lists a number of prominent art and culture figures among the 30,000 people whose account information was released.
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Last week, the Remembrance and Future Foundation (RFF) announced the five finalists competing to design a controversial Warsaw monument to Poles who helped Jews during the German occupation of Poland from 1939–45.
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Imagine holding a copy of the Magna Carta, folding it up, and forgetting about it.
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Haykal Bafana reported that "Al Qaeda militants [had] destroyed" the 800-year-old tomb of Sufi saint Sufyan bin Abdullah in Al Hota town, Lahij province, Yemen, on January 27.
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The fire that consumed a file storage warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront a week and a half ago has left artists in the building next door reeling.