The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has reportedly been refused a shipment of Legos he ordered because the company “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works.”

“While I am truly flattered to learn that Drake fucks with me,” writes 72-year-old installation artist James Turrell, a clear influence on the rapper’s taste for colored cubes, “I nevertheless wish to make clear that neither I nor any of my woes was involved in any way in the making of the Hotline Bling video.”

A Connecticut burglar has been brought to justice thanks to a prodigal young artist.

The staff at Dismaland are trained to act like alienated labor, a principle directly out of Marx, and they do not disappoint in being disappointing.

Artist and programmer Nick Rindo, whose medium of choice is various plant seeds, created a portrait of accused sexual predator Bill Cosby out of canola seeds and submitted it to the Minnesota State Fair. But it didn’t take the fair organizers long to realize that the rape portrait had not fallen far from the rape plant.

“He painted intricate murals in the stairwells, crafted sculptures out of concrete and transformed trash containers into artistic statements. All but one of the paintings have since been removed or entombed within the walls of the development, now that the building is nearly complete.”

“I’m lucky because what I make either succeeds or fails. Some people undoubtedly would tell you that’s why it’s crap art, but that’s the way it is. I feel sorry for Abstract Expressionists—how do they know when to go home?”

If you’re a banker who specializes in managing the money of the insanely wealthy, how do you ensure that your client’s clueless children won’t squander the family fortune when it comes time to inherit? You teach them how to invest in art and stuff.

Anish Kapoor’s recent installation at the Palace of Versailles, “Dirty Corner,” a sculpture intended to represent the “the vagina of a queen who is taking power,” was vandalized early Wednesday morning by unnamed perpetrators, The Guardian reports.

Struggling artist, activist, and educator Rachel Dolezal is having a moment. Today, on Ebay, bidding on two pieces of art, allegedly by Dolezal herself, starts at $5,000. The seller invites you to “Own a Piece of History!”

Today’s theme on the internet is “Pick Apart the Life of Rachel Dolezal, the White Lady Who Pretended to Be Black for a While.” Okay fine, have you gazed upon her many works of art?

Steven Cohen, the self-pitying billionaire hedge fund titan who enriched himself through insider trading, has an expensive new toy.

On April 8, staffers at the Boston Public Library noticed that Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve—an engraving valued at over $600,000—was missing from its collection. After an internal search, a Rembrandt etching was found missing as well. A month on, no one knows what became of the art—but police believe the apparent heist may have been an inside job.

MFA? More like LMFAO.

An art show at Westfield High School in Westfield, N.J. asked students to create images that commented on one of three hot-button issues: “Modern Technology Advances,” “Gender Equality,” and “Law Enforcement - Police Brutality.” That last option got a few local parents really riled up.

After a recent controversy erupted in Long Island City regarding a piece of artwork that many deemed ugly—some compared the eight-foot tall bright pink sculpture to “Gumby’s grandmother”—a new bill has passed that would give neighborhoods some input before public works are installed.

By about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, throngs of eager New Yorkers were assembled outside 190 Bowery, hoping for access to a just-announced art show inside the 150-year-old former bank building. First Show / Last Show was celebrated as a chance for the public to see inside 190—which has been mostly inaccessible for decades—before the arrival of its new tenants. Not many people got in.

Remember that painting we talked about yesterday? The ugly Picasso that sold at Christie’s for a price so exorbitant that it’s painful to mention again ($179 million dollars)? Well, according to Fox5 in NY, it wasn’t only crazy expensive, it was pornographic.

Got a couple million dollars in the bank? Want to make it rain at Christie’s? Too bad, you’re a sucker who is still too poor to buy art. Please step aside.