MARTIN HUNTER
Critics didn’t really like Douglas Gordon’s new play, so the Turner Prize–winning artist axed the walls of the theater where it’s having its run. [Manchester Evening News]
A Lego artist has recreated Justin Bieber’s nude Instagram photo using the artist’s preferred plastic medium. [The AV Club]
Filmmaker Joe Gibbons, who robbed a bank as performance art, has been sentenced to one year in prison. [Artforum]
The Smithsonian has posted a disclaimer about its much-publicized show “Conversations,” which features work from the Cosbys’ collection. The museum writes that the show is “fundamentally about the artworks and the artists who created them, not Mr. Cosby.” [NPR]
An “eco-art” project, intended to efficiently filter water, grows in South Florida. [Reuters]
The Getty will show replicas of Buddhist caves for its 2016 show “Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road.” [Los Angeles Times]
The British Museum may be loaning £1 billion-worth of work to Abu Dhabi in the coming three years. [The Art Newspaper]
An exhibition at Chicago’s Gallery Guichard, featuring a replica of Michael Brown’s dead body, has been controversial. [Hyperallergic]
Josephine Pryde at Wattis. [Contemporary Art Daily]