Based on the above painting, which was sent to Martha Stewart, you can now add Snoop Dogg to the list of rising art talents. Via
A lot went down this week in the weird and wild world of Art. Some things were more scandalous than others, some were just plain wacky—but all of them are worth knowing about. Without further ado:+ Snoop Dogg sent an original painting of a bulldog to his good friend Martha Stewart. [Martha Stewart]+ Government officials in Belgium spoke out against a mural of a giant penis that went up on the side of a building in Brussels. [Metro]
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+ The Portuguese government decided to keep 85 works by renowned Spanish artist Joan Miro after receiving backlash from the public over a proposal to sell them to foreign buyers. [The Guardian]+ Robert Gentile, the 80-year-old mobster believed to know the whereabouts of the works stolen in the largest art heist in US history, is near death, according to his attourney. [The Guardian]
+ The Metropolitan Museum of Art is being sued over one of their most valuable Picasso paintings, The Actor. [The New York Times]+ Saddam Hussein’s former palace reopened today as an art museum. [The Art Newspaper]+ Mr. Burns has a virtual reality experience in a new episode of The Simpsons. [YouTube]
+ Italian police officials recovered two paintings that were stolen 14 years ago from the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. [Artforum]+ Andy Warhol drew an image of Mickey Mouse on a pair of panties in 1982 that are now worth upwards of a $100,000. [Page Six]+ The Met laid off about three dozen people this week. [The Arts Journal]
+ Sotheby’s hosted a three-day auction preview of David Bowie’s art collection in New York City, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and London. Learn more about the auction here.+ The George Lucas Foundation donated $1.5 million to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. [Art News]+ American abstract painter Walter Darby Bannard passed away at 82. [Artforum]
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