Starting with "Head northwest on West 47th Street toward 7th Ave," the Berlin artist Gregor Weichbrodt has translated Jack Kerouac's On the Road into Google Maps directions. The entire route totals 17,527 miles, for those who want to follow along in Street View.

The actress apparently painted this with her own hand. This photo originally turned up on Tumblr and Reddit user immigat discovered proof of the self-portrait's existence in a 2011 Vogue article:

George Zimmerman hasn't had anything to shoot in a while, so he's still playing with this debt-paying arts-and-crafts thing where he trolls everyone with infantile comments on American justice, oh and also, stencils.

Here you will find photographs of Jean-Michel Basquiat's balls.

A pleasant winter day turned into a nightmare for two women in Lamar County, Texas, on Thursday when they were robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight. The bright side? They now have a piece of beautiful artwork to treasure.

According to the New York Times, the anonymous buyer of the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, a $142.4 million Francis Bacon triptych called "Three Studies of Lucien Freud," was actually Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of casino developer and known Picasso destroyer Steve Wynn.

Some people thought that Detroit, a city that is bankrupt, might have to sell off the valuable art in its art museum in order to help pay its debts. Detroit will not have to do this after all.

Today the Bloomberg administration unveiled the outgoing mayor’s official portrait, which was painted by Jon Friedman and depicts Bloomberg wearing two “Big Apple” cufflinks and a Big Apple lapel, and, behind him, at least two Bloomberg LP computer terminals. The city unveiled the portrait three days after Polish artist Ismena Halkiewicz placed on the market her own (uncommissioned) portrait of the mayor, who in Halkiewicz’s version is holding an owl and framed by blood-red raindrops inscribed with the dollar sign.

George Zimmerman is an unemployable broke asshole, so maybe it's no real surprise that he's also an amateur artist. That original painting he was hawking on eBay this week — the one he described with a joke about Trayvon Martin ("my art work allows me to reflect, providing a therapeutic outlet and allows me to remain indoors :-)") — has potentially sold for six figures.

George Rodrigue, the Louisiana artist whose 'Blue Dog' paintings you've seen in living rooms across the nation, has died at the age of 69.

Detroit is bankrupt. The once-great city languishes deep in debt, unable to provide basic city services, as it debates cutting pensions and selling off the city's art collection. What's the right move? We, the writers of Gawker, have very strong opinions.

Well that's one way to get people to go see your work — artist Jamison Ernest has been hiding a diamond a day for patrons to take home from his "Bouncing Cars" exhibition at the Ambassador Gallery in New York. "I want to give people hope," Ernest said. There's one diamond left at the show, which closes today.

If you take a good, hard look at a vulva, you realize it's just a bit of a body. There's nothing that is shocking or scary, you know, nothing that is gonna run out and eat you up.

Everyone's favorite retiree George W. Bush appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, ostensibly to promote his new library but also to show off one of his new paintings, which he gave to host Jay Leno. The painting, a portrait of Leno, marks something of an artistic shift for Bush, who has spent the past several months seemingly painting only animals—specifically, cats and dogs.

[Queens graffiti mecca 5 Pointz was painted over last night, to make way for condos. Sickening. Photos via Animal NY.]

[Andy Warhol's 1963 painting titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)" sold for $105 million Wednesday at an auction in New York City. The sale occurred amid a "spending frenzy at the high end of the art world." Yes, yes it did. Image via Sotheby's]

["Three Studies of Lucian Freud," a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon of his friend and artist Lucian Freud, sold for a mere $142.4 million at Christie's Tuesday night. The unknown buyer won the piece after six minutes of "fierce bidding." Image by Christie's via AP]

Capping his month-long residency in New York City, Banksy donated a work of art titled "The Banality of the Banality of Evil" to Housing Works, a charity that provides housing to the homeless and AIDS patients. The work was to be auctioned off to raise money for the charity, but in classic fashion for the reclusive artist, the auction devolved into finger-pointing and accusations, with the anonymous winning bidder backing out of their bid.

More than 1,500 Nazi-confiscated modernist paintings, including pieces by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, were discovered in a Munich apartment during a tax evasion-related raid in 2011, according to a report in German magazine Focus.