Art is whatever people think it is, and what people think it is depends an awful lot on context: For example, whether the work is being displayed in an art museum by a dapper bloke in glasses and a vest, or whether it's sitting alongside other copies of the exact same print in an IKEA, with a listed price of €10.

It's amazing, the furor that one woman's genitalia can generate.

George W. Bush got all of his painting inspiration from Google images. But you have to admit the fella's got a lot more talent and heart than George Zimmerman.

Artist John Currin painted this portrait (which Bea didn't model for) of the late, great Golden Girl in 1991. The New Yorker referred to it as part of a series by Currin that featured "acrid fantasy portraits of menopausal women." I think it's quite beautiful.

This morning Page Six ran an item that alum-turned-author Paula Froelich recently posed nude for an oil painting. Well, we got our hands on a photo of one of the canvases.

Sotheby's profit cratered last quarter, down 87% from the year before because for some reason people don't feel like spending millions of dollars on pretty pictures. Maybe a Cash For Classicism program would help?