Bestselling artist/crook Thomas Kinkade was arrested on suspicion of a DUI in California. According to police, he was "very nice," for a guy whose life's work represents the vicious murder of art at the hands of religious capitalism. [Modesto Bee]

[This is "BP Truck," a 2006 oil painting by Chicago-based artist Chuck Meyers. Maybe BP just wanted to paint the Gulf (brownish) red? Image via chuckmeyers.com. Update: Chuck whipped together an updated version, on sale now on eBay.]

Remember our close artistic visionary friend, Dan Lacey, pancake painter to the stars and maker of whims coming true? Yes. Well, he's being subpoenaed by insane birther queen and aspiring California politico Orly Taitz. Because of... conspiracy?

A sticker of this image was found at Reagan National Airport last week, prompting DHS officials to ask law enforcement agencies who might be responsible. Artist Rene Gagnon told Wired, "Those are spray-paint cans on my chest, not bombs."

[A Bonhams auction house worker hangs a Picasso next to a Chagall. The portrait, of Picasso's friend Mr. Minguell, was completed when the artist was 20 and is better than anything you will do in your lifetime. Pic via Getty]

The Way We Live Now: Giving up on it all. Why not just walk away? From your mortgage. From your, haha, "job," if it existed. From the crappy bus, and your crappy investments. And your art...well, keep the art.

Artist Louise Bourgeois died Monday in Manhattan following a heart attack. Her awesome, creepy sculptures—including this spider, Maman, outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain—shot her to fame in her 70s. [LAT; pic via Topyti's Flickr]

Marina Abramovic's weeks-long performance art piece ends today. It raised important questions about the nature of art. They will probably never be answered. What's certain, though, is that an audience member made themselves vomit, and another stripped nude today.

Jay Shells, the artist who brought you the Subway Etiquette posters, is back with a new project: plastic bags dispensed from a painted dog's booty, to encourage pet cleanliness. This street artist is New York's most responsible citizen. [AnimalNY]

On Thursday art thieves broke into the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and stole $123m of paintings, including a Matisse and a Picasso. Yesterday two men got into the home of a collector in Marseille and stole five works.

An intrepid masked thief, or thieves, broke into Paris' Museum of Modern Art yesterday and took five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Leger, worth $123m. Officials admit, according to the BBC, that the alarm system was not working.

Jaunty underground vandalartist Poster Boy was sentenced to 11 months in prison by a cranky judge last week, but now he's free on bail. Facebook and stencil artist lobbyists really work. Run, Poster Boy! (Don't really). [Subway Art Blog]

Whether anyone likes it or not, "Everybody Draw Mohammed [sp?] Day" is here, thanks to the unstoppability of internet memes. Muslim reactions have ranged from reasonable to unreasonable. But the reaction of the day's (unintentional) creator sums it up best.

A single slick art thief whose life is totally like a movie stole more than $600 million worth of paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art last night. Picasso! Matisse! Etc.! Click through for pictures of his superfamous haul.

A fence on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin looks innocuous head-on, but more than a little creepy from the right perspective. The other direction works as well. Click through to see the pictures individually. [Spreeblick; hat tip to Robyn]

For his new installation, Australian artist Bennett Miller has assembled a meeting of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in the Melbourne Museum plaza. The part that is "art" is that all of the delegates are dogs. All together: Awwwwww.

Ever wonder who is behind those Gawker Artists banners? Are you a creative type curious about how to get your work featured on Gawker Media sites? Come in and learn all the ways you can contribute to the Gawker Artists community. [Art by Katie Sokoler]

More on yesterday's 11-month jail sentence for hometown subterranean vandalartist, Poster Boy: PB missed his May 6 court date, and was punished for it by an irate judge. Damn. His book is scheduled to be published June 1. [NYP, AnimalNY]

["For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Yes, that is Mickey Mouse, crucified in a Shanghai Beijing mall. Pic via Shangahiist.]

Popular subway vandalartist Poster Boy has reportedly been sentenced to 11 months in jail.