Art

VIDEO: This is a girl painting a picture of Yao Ming with a basketball

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Artist Hong Yi specializes in all sorts of “unconventional” art. But, unlike your average performance art-type, she’s actually talented. Check out this video of her painting Chinese icon/former Rockets center Yao Ming with a basketball. It’s amazing. Read more

Drunk woman accused of rubbing butt, punching, peeing on $30M painting

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How a urine-and-butt-rubbingless 1957-J-No. 2. would look

Note: When in the presence of a painting valued at $30 million, avoid rubbing your butt and/or peeing on it. If only that were advice were included in the latest Miss Manners column. Read more

VIDEO: Video games as art, but not in a douchey way

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Artist draw from their surroundings and experiences, so if Van Gogh was around today, he’d probably be painting Super Mario fire flowers and stuff like that. Maybe. Read more

The Smithsonian lists the 80 games that they consider to be “art”

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Will the never-ending (and increasingly boring) “is video games art argument?” finally come to an end? Hopefully the seal of approval from one of the nation’s most respected art institutions says yes, but I somehow doubt it. Read more

Quote of the Day

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A city in Iowa attempted to bring a degree of class to a local bridge, installing a work of art (see video of it here). Unfortunately, some of the locals hate it, making for some fun back and forths and art bashing. Read more

This is a portrait of Mario made out of toast

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There are so many odd little projects online that people undertake just for fun. Some seem silly, others are clearly transcendent works of art that society just isn’t ready for. You take a guess as to which category this Mario made out of toast falls under. Read more

The Mona Lisa might be Leonardo Da Vinci in drag

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For literally centuries, people have wondered who the woman in the Mona Lisa actually was. Historians had thought they pinpointed roughly whom the woman might have been. Or so they thought. According to new research, the Mona Lisa might just be a painting of Leonardo da Vinci dressed up like a woman. Oh, art. Read more

Quote of the Day

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This story is pretty shocking, not that it happened, but because it didn’t happen in a crappy Steve Martin movie in which he plays a bumbling French detective. A woman slipped while with her art class in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and her pratfall ended up ripping a chunk out of an extremely large, ... Read more

Old painting, when cleaned, reveals massive dong

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Bugs Bunny and some ancient painting…it’s fat cock day here on the blog, hooray! Though it could be said that with me as your editor, every day is fat cock day. It is rather juicy. Where was I? Oh yeah, some Brazilian art restorer found on a centuries-old painting of Priapus, Greek god of fertility, ... Read more

What Michael Jackson will look like

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Ebony Magazine in 1985 released composite photos of what certain celebrities will look like in the FUTUREEEEEE, the year 2000. Here’s their take on Michael Jackson. Read more

Artist gets money to study asses

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Art is totally subjective, but receiving a buttload (lolpuns) of money to study the female derrière seems a bit pointless. Sexy, but pointless. Read more