Pancake painter to the stars Dan Lacey has completed his second painting suggested by you, the Gawker readers: OctoMom upon the cross, as Angelina and Madonna worship her.

Oh man, Hillary made another GAFFE. She's just a gaffe machine! Bring back Condi! She got along with everyone! See, she didn't know that this image on this cloak was painted magically by God.

It is a beautiful Spring Friday, so here is a picture of a woman pegging President James Buchanan. NSFW??

Lawrence Salander apparently had a nice little painting ponzi scheme going for a while there. Then he tried conning a certain temperamental tennis star named John McEnroe. This, of course, ENDED him.

Trouble just keeps piling up for scandal-plagued art dealer Larry Salander. In 2007, his Salander-O'Reilly gallery on the Upper East Side was shuttered amid charges he'd bilked clients out of millions. This past June, after filing for bankruptcy protection, most of his assets were sold off. And now? He's behind bars. Salander was taken into custody at his Millbrook home this morning and has been charged with 100 counts of grand larceny, forgery, falsifying business records, perjury, and other assorted crimes. On the bright side, at least Bernie Madoff will have a really knowledgeable person to consult when he decides to decorate his jail cell.

Two conceptual artists/nuts decided that they could stop people from dying by building bizarre apartments for them. But Bernie Madoff lost all their money! He's killed the dream of immortality through uneven flooring:

Everyone, it seems, is reaping fortune or fame from a 2006 Associated Press picture of Barack Obama. Except the AP.

In protest of "the ways in which conversations about institutional racism and white privilege have been mishandled and silenced within the [University of Minnesota Dance] department," anonymous activists have be-papered the department headquarters, provocatively:

You may be worrying about losing your job or defaulting on your mortgage, but you can take heart in the fact you're not alone: Dasha Zhukova is right there with you! The 27-year-old gallery owner, magazine editor, socialite, and girfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich, told reporters at the opening of her Garage gallery in Moscow last week that she's been "as affected by the crisis as anyone else." Unlike everyone else, though, Dasha has no plans to let her financial worries get her down; she remained, says one reporter, "determined not to let the financial crisis get in the way of a good party." Because even if her boyfriend is worth half as much as he was last year, he still has $8.5 billion. And that still leaves plenty of room for an occasional party or art show. "The Garage will go on," she told the guests in attendence. Clearly! [The First Post]

Poster Boy and friends have a gallery show in Brooklyn tomorrow. Don't tell the cops.

You'll be relieved to hear that Dasha Zhukova, whose surprise appointment as editor-in-chief of Pop magazine triggered a bitchy wave of consternation across certain sections of the fashion world—because, you know, presiding over the compilation of pretty pictures is on a par with brain surgery—is not letting the haters deter her. She says she's cutting back on her involvement with fashion line Kova & T in order to focus on her new job, as well as on her Moscow gallery. "Garage and Pop magazine are my priorities," she told a journalist interviewing her about an exhibition of art owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault, opening today at Garage.

Ladies and gentlemen, your winning request, "Rush the Hutt," by wondrous pancake painter to the stars Dan Lacey. You may buy this cultural artifact on Ebay, right now.

Our nation's finest art museums are crumbling to pieces, thanks to the global financial crisis. But more specifically, thanks to cheapskates like you.

Dear Shepard Fairey: as human beings we're happy you produced this image for Adopt-a-pet.com and the Dog's Life magazine cover (click for full size). We'd be less thrilled as your brand managers.

Do you want to become a part of history? Fax a photograph to 718.384.1208 by 4pm.

Ladies and gentlemen, your selection for pancake artist-to-the-stars Dan Lacey's next painting is "Rush Limbaugh with a chained Princess Leia (Sarah Palin) and Michael Steele as C3P0." He's already started it.

Millionaire Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara was arrested by the NYPD this week for drawing on a subway wall. Other "victims" of his precious vandalism took the opposite approach:

Is OBEY-er street artist Shepard Fairey a sellout hypocrite tool? Or is he an anti-establishment American hero? What a good thing to hastily judge!

Kutiman's video series has generated awe and praise in the week since it debuted. One fan even issued a preemptive warning to entertainment executives who might be contemplating lawsuits:

OBEY artist Shepard Fairey preemptively sued the AP for the right to use their Obama photo, free; today the AP sued him back. Shep seemed more righteous before we knew he sues other artists. But!: