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A new book about Michelangelo speculates that his inspiration for all the nude male figures in the Sistine Chapel’s Last Judgment mural came from his frequent visits to Rome’s gay bathhouses and brothels. Elena Lazzarini, a researcher from Pisa University, believes the enormous fresco is replete with homosexual imagery, including a man being dragged into Damnation by his testicles and …

Many more examples here. Some of them clearly aren’t by actual fans.

The above sculpture titled Non-Sign has been erected at the American-Canadian border near Vancouver. I invite your art-fag interpretation as to its meaning.

Gothamist notes that last night’s opening sequence of The Simpsons was story-boarded by famed graffiti artist Banksy.

Prints are now onsale on Etsy.com: My painting “The Cher Within” depicts the magical moment when a drag performer prepares to cross the line between ambiguous guy in his underwear to full-on diva extraordinaire, in this case fashioned after his ultimate heroine, Cher. The painting also represents the diva in everyone, those who have actually taken their sequinned acts to …

This clip has been on YouTube for a few weeks, but it’s too hypnotically strange and beautiful not to pass along. Very Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. The music sounds exactly like Antony & The Johnsons to me, but it’s the Irrepressibles. Possibly NSFW.

Currently installed in the middle of Park Avenue at 70th Street, Yoshitimo Nara’s White Ghost is part of his show at the Asia Society Museum. The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs until the end of the year. You might know Nara’s work best from the album covers he did for artists such as R.E.M and Shonen Knife, the latter of …

From artist Ginger Williams, the maker of the Golden Girls Nesting Dolls. Ginger tells me that my first post about her dolls went rather viral, with mentions of her work popping up on MSNBC and garnering her an interview on Good Morning, Sacramento where she also displayed her Steel Magnolias dolls. Many of you have asked about purchasing the dolls, …

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Signed and limited editions of Linas Garsys’ iconic poster artwork for the Blowoff parties are now available for purchase on the artist’s site. Next week his work will be shown during Montreal’s Divers/Cite, details here and below.

A priest in the Dominican Republic wants to tear down his church’s artwork because the angels look totally gay. And evil. The painting named “Allegory of the Virgin of Carmen,” was concluded 12 years ago by Dominican artist Roberto Flores. The artwork adorns the interior of the church of “Our Lady of Carmen” in the mountain community of Jarabacoa, an …

The exhibit runs June 24th – Sept. 30th. More details here.

Openly gay conceptual artist and notorious art prankster Tobi Wong committed suicide on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 35. Mr. Wong first came to the attention of the design press in 2001 when he turned a Philippe Starck Bubble Club chair into a lamp, softly glowing from within. Adding spice to the stunt, “This Is a Lamp” was shown the …

Crooks And Liars tips us to a controversy in suburban Oklahoma City, where parishioners at a Catholic church are swelling in anger over a seemingly very well hung Jesus. Critics of the crucifix take issue with what appears to be a large penis covering Jesus’ abdominal area. Seeton said the portion of the crucifix in question is meant to be …

The NYPD rushed to the Empire State Building yesterday after getting reports of a man about to jump off the 24th floor setback. The “man” was actually a statue that is part of the citywide “Event Horizon” installation by artist Antony Gormley, whose statues caused a similar suicide-y ruckus in London three years ago. None of the other ledges and …

Jen Carlson at Gothamist finds the greatest stuff.

From the coming documentary about British graffiti artist Banksy: Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn …

Above is a rendering of the 350-foot sculpture chosen for London’s 2012 Olympics site. A spiraling sculpture designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been chosen as the monument to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games. The 115m tall piece, named the ArcelorMittal Orbit, will be placed in the Olympic Park and will be 22m higher than New York’s …

No, that isn’t a computer-created image. It’s real world art. The Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai World Expo’s UK Pavillion is exactly that: a 66-feet-tall shrine accented with 60,000 25-feet-long fiber-optic rods on its exterior, each of which contains one or more seeds encased at its tip. And awe-inspiring it certainly is. The rods funnel light into the Seed Cathedral’s …

Reichen Lehmkuhl appears in a new campaign from the Open Artist Movement along the lines of the NOH8 photo series. We Can Do It! is a photo campaign to build solidarity and personal strength through positive messaging. The goal is to bring to life modern iconic individuals, by depicting them as powerful and not victims in support of the global …