The Way We Live Now: Sportingly. We shall not behave as animals simply because the recession is ravaging our society, shall we? As long as we have sports, we shall always have dignity. Uh. Do we still have sports?

Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan dresses her baby up as the worst dictators of the 20th century because—after all—"Even my daughter could end up ruling Denmark with an iron fist." That baby probably has a better-than-average chance, yes.

Video artist Mike Barzman has created Pink Terror, a hypnotic color study filmed at high speed to show object-smashing and flame-throwing in the most glorious detail, with Stephen Hawking's computerized voice "rapping" over a phat beat as audio accompaniment.

[A mad hatter escaped from this painting by Vincent Desiderio at the Armory Show and escaped with the crowd into the black hole. Guess he'll miss the fine art show opening tomorrow. Image via Getty]

["Young San Fransisco, Don't Tell Me No Lies," Mixed Media, 2010, artwork courtesy the artist. Charticle of the Hour is a March of Paradigms/Grimm Industries production. The artists intend to stimulate with this what they call "the collective entrepreneurial consciousness."]

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When Lexington, Kentucky resident Charlie Kratzer wanted a home full of fine art, he transformed his basement into a live-in museum with $10 in Sharpies. Trompe-l'oeil architecture and references from Picasso to Poirot make this the best rec room ever.

A McG directed, Takashi Murakami commissioned music video for "Turning Japanese", starring Kirsten Dunst in a blue wig. Dunst does Spider-Man 3, McG directs Terminator: Salvation, they both disappear from the public eye... and re-emerge with this? The Murakami Curse!

Some people, with a twisted sense of aesthetic value, purchased portraits of former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan when he was lauded as an economic hero. Now those works of art are worth less. And Alan Greenspan is still ugly. [WSJ]

Sure, the iPad is nice and all, but it doesn't allow the freedom to create an eight-foot tall digital illustration. Sponsored by the Olympics, artist Chairman Ting paints a digital mural on Tangible Interaction's interactive computer wall in Vancouver.

Despite the fact that this is essentially an ad for a Viacom product that also promotes a GE-sponsored celebration of nationalism, this Shepard Fairey poster for Stephen Colbert's Olympics trip is pretty cool. So go paper Vancouver with it, kids!

Coming in March: Poster Boy: The War of Art. The kid got a book deal, huzzah! You might say it's "too soon," but is it really? Hopefully the law's not taking all his money, yet. Exciting publisher's boilerplate description below.

Graf writer and Foster's crush UTAH gives her first post-jail interview. Spoiler: Jail is boring.

Yosi Sergant is the art publicist who was forced to resign his NEA job after a remark on a conference call about engaging artists with public service became a hysterical right wing talking point. Yosi finally speaks, here. (Not bitter!)

Big news for fans of Kansho Tagai, a.k.a. Mr. Happiness, Japan's most famous 49 year-old rappin' Buddhist monk: He's ready to move into a new medium—"mixing Buddhist chants with tap-dancing." Is the Buddhist hip hop audience ready? [Reuters]

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's work explores the intersection of the natural world and man-made environments in soundscapes. In his current installation at London's Barbican Centre, a flock of zebra finches is loosed within an instrumental apiary to create subtly beautiful organic rhythms.

The six-foot high 1960 Alberto Giacometti sculpture "Walking Man I" sold yesterday for $104.3 million, the most ever paid for a work of art. Unless you consider credit default swaps to be art, in which case this is trifling. [WSJ]

File under: AMAZING and/or the best thing you'll see all day. In this time-lapse video, a man uses thousands of Cheetos—in four varieties, natch—to construct a portrait of Conan O'Brien. Ready to have your mind blown? Watch inside.

We thought we knew what Aaron Patzer did last summer, but we didn't know the half of it. Sure, Patzer sold his Mint.com for $170 million. But he also had a sexy tryst with a London artist. And her sketchpad.

Are you and your art a charity case? Good news! Goldman Sachs is now in the charity business (as well as the taking-billions-from-the-government-and handing-it-over-to-its-bankers-as-bonus business). Darcie Dennigan and Carl Dimitri have posted the grant application at The Rumpus.