Raymond Pettibon, the visual artist responsible for such iconic images as the Black Flag logo and Sonic Youth's Goo album cover, maintains a spectacularly salty online persona. Recently, he—or someone posing as him—took his mashed-out proclamations to the Hypebeast comments section, of all places, dishing out poorly spelled insults like a veteran commenter.

Mr. Brainwash is either a terrible artist or a great work of art. Whatever he is, he was apparently in lower Manhattan today, putting up an enormous, garish 9/11 mural on a department store across from the World Trade Center site.

The artist who recently announced a gallery show featuring stolen nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton has decided not to go through with it. He'll exhibit his own nudes instead, which he feels is pretty much the same thing, artistically.

Miley Cyrus has finally answered the question "What does it look like when Miley Cyrus does something?" The answer: Stuff with stuff on it.

Terry Crews is more than just an actor, a former NFL player, and a paragon of pectoral muscle control. His first college scholarship offer wasn't for football; it was for art. Crews is a wizard with colored pencils and an airbrush.

Art may be subjective, but it's objectively dumb to volunteer to be shot with 300,000 volts of electricity. And yet somehow, one artist found close to 100—100!!!—volunteers for his unholy wedding of Marina Abramović's "The Artist is Present" with a stun gun.

New York City is the birthplace of graffiti, a globally beloved art form. It is also the birthplace of the "Broken Windows" theory of policing, which has succeeded in arresting a lot of panhandlers and subway dancers. Which is worse, do you think?

As I sat, sweating, at a keyboardless iMac in a sweltering bar, an amplified voice announced the beginning of competition: "The previous rounds were based on a combination of luck and skill, but this one is really all about skill. Can you surf? Can you rip?"

Someone trying to prove a point about the nature and value of art—or about the remarkably steady birth rate of suckers (still approximately one per minute!)—has printed out a screenshot of a 4chan post and sold it on eBay for nearly six figures.

The 5 Pointz warehouses in Long Island City, Queens, once a vibrant global mecca for graffiti art, will be turned into the least artistic high-rise condo towers you have ever seen.

Several tipsters have alerted us to the occurrence of a "hipster" being "walked" by a man on a Segway in Williamsburg over the weekend.

"I noticed a dead deer on the side of the 28th st exit off 83 last evening. Saw the same deer again tonight with graffiti all over it. Lol." — @DrRockt0pus

A London gallery has removed a semi-nude painting of a woman from an exhibition, apparently because viewers couldn't handle the depiction of a small strip of pubic hair.

Kosta Boda, a glassworks art gallery in Kosta, Sweden, recently did an experiment at an art auction that is unlike any before: bidders, instead of bringing cash to spend on the over €25,000 worth of art at the auction, needed to only bring their emotions.

It's summer! In the city! So much to add to your seasonal to-do list, including: a bounce castle filled with enormous inflatable tits at Manhattan's Museum of Sex.

Under pressure, the Met Opera has canceled its simulcast of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer. The Anti-Defamation League says "the opera itself is not anti-Semitic" but that it "could be used in foreign countries to stir up anti-Israel sentiments." Hitler's favorite operas are still OK, though.

Watermelon season has arrived, the sweetest time of year.

Famous performance artist and tear-jerker Marina Abramović's new show opened this week, and by one account, she's still making people cry.

Science has finally done something worthwhile: A museum in Germany has put Vincent van Gogh's regrown ear on display so visitors can ask it questions through a microphone.

A Chinese father is reportedly temporarily stuck in South Korea because his four-year-old son drew him an adorable picture—all over his passport. UPDATE 11:05 am: As Kotaku points out, there is evidence that this is probably a hoax.