The late Chris Burden’s final project, a 40-foot-long airship, will go on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art this week. [The Art Newspaper]
A professor in the University of California, San Diego department of visual arts is requiring his students to perform naked to pass his class; outrage ensues. [New York Daily News]
Brooklyn-based theater company, The Civilians, are nearing an end to their residency at the Met, in which they interview people in the American wing, compile their responses, and create a piece of “investigative theater.” [The New Yorker]
A wealthy collector of Asian left two waitresses at an Upper East Side steak house a tip of $50,000 each when he died. He had never learned their names, referring to them only as “Maureen at Donohue’s” “Maureen-at-Donohue’s Niece Maureen.” [New York Post]
German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, who forged paintings by Picasso and Max Ernst, is out of prison and set to hold his first exhibition this week. [BBC Arts]
Photos of artists off-duty. [The Guardian]
A 63-year-old man in Spain was arrested for stealing dozens of pieces of art from Swedish churches. [ABC News]
Street artists and a water bottle company are battling over the rights to an Instagram hashtag #takingbackthestreets. [The New York Times]