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Madeleine Josephine Fierz of Switzerland won a gold medal at the Moscow International Foto Awards for a series of images of young Thais which she titled “I look at the world with the eyes of a child.” Turns out they were the work of a Thai photographer, and Fierze downloaded them from Pixabay.

Haring had assumed that his South Philadelphia mural would disappear, and it hasn’t. For this 88½-foot mural, it was the opposite: “I made this painting to amuse the sick children in this hospital, now and in the future,” he wrote in his diary – but by 2011 it had deteriorated badly, and the hospital was going to demolish it as part of an expansion. Roslyn Sulcas recounts how the piece, called Tower, was rescued.

• the one we here thought was the least bad of the finalists. (We agree with the vast majority – 78% – of Building Design readers, who chose a different candidate.) But the judges’ votes for the UK’s worst building of the year went to a development near London’s Victoria Station; one judge describes it as “two large blocks sliced and diced to create to create a series of angular volumes drunkenly leaning on each other … [with] a headache-inducing moiré pattern when viewed from the side.”

“The Perez Art Museum Miami, The Wolfsonian—FIU, ICA Miami, Dimensions Variable, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and Faena Art all announced they would be closed on Wednesday and remain shut through the weekend.” Fortunately, several of these museums were specifically built to withstand extreme weather.