How "a fucking high school doodle book" linked to Basquiat got Yale University into a big lawsuit. Ah, the art world.

Why does Barack Obama hate Christians so much? The notorious anti-Jesus President is refusing to condemn the controversial work Piss Christ by Andres Serrano.

Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi unveiled his latest art installation Discovering Columbus 75 feet above Columbus Circle in New York yesterday, and everyone celebrated by looking up the statue's skirt and not hugging it.

What happens when you ask a bunch of eight-year-old kids to draw pictures of a horrific, scarring disaster that they not only lack the processing tools to understand but also happened three years before they were even born? You get drawings of stick figures jumping out of buildings with the caption "One-Way Ticket to Heaven."

If you picked up a priceless Andy Warhol painting at a yard sale recently, congrats; that painting is about to become worthless.

The Nite Moves strip club/artists' collective in Albany made headlines Wednesday, as its owners took their argument that lap dancing qualifies as a tax-exempt "art" to the New York Court of Appeals.

Last week, when it was discovered that a well-meaning octogenarian had attempted to restore a fresco and created a sort of beast-like Jesus portait in its place, many observers thought she had "ruined" the painting. In fact, she created a tourist attraction:

It's been described as "a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic" and compared to a sloth, but the world's worst restoration of a century old Spanish fresco has delighted so many over the last few days that thousands have gathered to object to its destruction.

40 people across the United States who recently attempted to get terrible tattoos ended up with tattoos much more terrible than the ones they thought they were getting, when their ink shaded in with red, bubbly skin rashes.

We admire people who have can-do, elbow-grease-type attitudes. If something's broke, why not fix it? Especially badly-damaged artwork. How hard can it be to just pick up a paintbrush and fix a fresco? Well, as it turns out — and as an elderly Spanish woman learned recently: pretty hard.

Few things in life are as entrancing as Beyoncé's tumblr. Through it, Beyoncé invites viewers ("beys" in the beywildering language of her cultish manifesto) to accompany their Queen on a yacht-based Odyssey as she attempts to discover What is Art.

Ever wonder what happened to Kyle McDonald, the artist who had the Secret Service sicced on him last year for installing spy cam software on computers in New York City Apple Stores that took pictures of unsuspecting Apple customers? He's written a long, fascinating account of his ordeal for Wired. Turns out it all ended for the best.

So many bizarre things are for sale on the online arts-and-crafts fair Etsy that spotting them has become a business in its own right. Most of these are accidental monstrosities, but artist Brad Troemel is selling a line of purposely demented pieces, in what we feel comfortable labeling the weirdest Etsy store ever.

I was in Italy for the last couple weeks, and I saw a lot of fine art. But it was all basically bullshit compared to the Fine Art of John McNaughton, painter and patriot, whose newest masterpiece "The Empowered Man" welcomes me home like a bald eagle with the head of the Statue of Liberty, whistling the solo from "Hotel California" and embracing me between its powerful, masculine wings.

Well well well, despite a lot of cheap jokes from certain precincts of the internet where unhappy people dwell, it turns out that people who graduate from college with degrees in easy, fake fields may, in fact, be the smart ones after all.

Hanging up shitty student art is a time-honored school tradition, but one particular picture is stirring controversy at Fresno's Hamilton School. That's because it's a drawing of Jesus with the caption, "I want you to kill all infidels."

Kanye West debuted a 26-minute film titled Cruel Summer at Cannes Wednesday night. He is credited as a writer, producer, and director on the project. Here's what you need to know about it:

Usually burning art at a protest is a call for censorship, but Antonio Manfredi has a far nobler cause — the director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum is burning pieces of his museum's collection to protest Italy's drastic budget cuts to the arts.

Patrick Gonzalez, a middle schooler from San Antonio was threatened with an in-school suspension after coming to class with his hair full of beautiful artwork earlier this week.

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert examined the work of one Jon McNaughton who has quickly become the right's favorite artist. With paintings that feature President Obama burning and stepping on the Constitution, it's clear to see why they love him. The artist's claim that his work is filled with subtlety and deep meaning is a little less clear.