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A Snapshot of the 2015 World Press Photo Winners
The World Press Photo Contest 2015, this year culling from 97,912 images from 5,692 photographers representing 131 countries, announced its winners on February 12.
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8,000 Books and Manuscripts Lost After ISIS Bombs Mosul Library
On Sunday night, more than 8,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed after ISIS militants bombed Mosul's Central Library.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Cops don't care for anti-cop mural, misattribution embarrasses Toronto art detectives, and an ice sculpture smasher is on the loose.
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Dutch Soccer Hooligans Damage Historic Bernini Fountain in Rome
Dutch soccer fans wreaked havoc on Rome over the past two days, damaging a 17th-century fountain designed by Bernini and leaving the city's historic center strewn with trash.
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Art Movements
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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New Tally Shows Sexism Alive and Well at Top NYC Art Galleries
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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Artist Ticked Off at Watchmaker's Unauthorized Use of His Work
The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater is suing watchmaker Swatch for using one of his works to sell a luxury timepiece.
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UN Security Council Takes Aim at ISIS Antiquities Trafficking
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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Photographer Sends Cease and Desist Letters to Richard Prince and Gagosian
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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Art Movements
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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Museo del Prado Leads the Charge Toward Better Accessibility for the Blind
Touching the Prado invites visually impaired people to touch relief replicas of six collection masterpieces.
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HSBC Leak Reveals Art World’s Forays into Sketchy Swiss Banking
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.