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Here we have Sarah Palin in oils, thanks to some Chicago bar owner who painted this one himself! And he hangs it in his bar, so now everyone comes to his bar to see his nude depiction of Sarah Palin. This bar owner, he is a disgusting perv: “His daughter, who looks a little like Palin and does a great impression of her, served as model for the governor’s body.” [Chicago Tribune]

GAHH obviously this is the winner, OBVIOUSLY, of our contest for the best Blingee based on that one weird Larry King photo. You all could learn from the winner, a Mr. Hans-Jörg Brehm, whose name indicates Mexican heritage of some sort. Hans understood two things that do a good Blingee make: (1) layers upon layers of worthless crap and (2) the word “HOBBIT” lit on fire. So everyone congratulate Hans and his illegal migrant family! Five other finalists, after the jump. You will have many seizures. MORE »

Oh well, what the hell, here you go, interviews with Alaskan reporter Bill Scannell, Reason editor Matt Welch, BlogAds boss Henry Copeland, and your Wonkette editors. It is all dark, as is life, the end.

Some kooky Yale gal made an art project where she got knocked up and then made herself miscarry a million times, and then she smeared her gross abortion blood together with Vaseline and put it on a large suspended cube and now everybody hates her. She wants to “inspire some sort of discourse” and “provoke inquiry,” which is liberal Ivy League elitist code for “make everybody want to barf.” Why won’t pro-choice Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton apologize for not aborting this Yale student years ago? [Yale Daily News]

Last week, Liz Glover and Liz Gorman went to some crazy beatnik art/rock show thing called “The Show is the Rainbow,” where Glover took the above video and Gorman took the below pictures. It’s, uh, mostly safe for work.

The Show is the Rainbow Gallery

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Last Friday, DC welcomed new culture magazine artcade with a totally kickass party out in Logan. MORE »

Barry Obama’s Richmond campaign stop has already landed him in hot water for his hilarious joke about how everyone in Kansas was killed by the tornado. Apparently he also hates art and our fundamental constitutional right to see the vaginas of celebrities whenever we want. MORE »

Art! In Washington! It’s a crazy idea, but the kids at artDC decided to run with it. They put a bunch of art in the convention center, then lured hipsters over with the promise of beer and Ian Svenonius!

And we sent Intern Nick and Liz Gorman to investigate just what these so-called “artists” were up to. Liz snapped pictures of the dance party that broke out, and Nick, after the jump, explains the terrible atrocities he witnessed.

artDC Party Gallery

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* Mr. MacNeil-Lehrer Robert MacNeil speaks at the 20th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center. Free at 6:30PM, tickets required. [Kennedy Center]
* Five well known vaguely DC-ish artists were asked to choose five not-yet-famous DC -ish artists “to watch.” It’s very Yin-Yang, five established artists swirling in a cultural vortex with five beginners. At the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery (in the JCC) free until 10PM. The show promises not to have a DC theme. [WDCJCC]
* Argentina’s The Magic Gloves at AFI. Features porn and anti-depressants. Like every other Monday night. $9.25 at 7PM. [AFI]

The Hirshhorn Museum: It’s free! Except for every couple months, when they convince the kids to go there by, weirdly, charging admission.

The museum had one of those “after hours” parties last Friday, and we sent Liz Gorman, Intrepid Girl Reporter to document the fun. Intern Nick just happened to be there, so we made him write it up.

You can find Liz’s pictures right here. And after the jump: Lite-brites! Ian Svenonius! Art! Tipsy pseudo-intellectuals both young and old! And Lite-brites!

Hirshhorn ‘After Hours’ Photo Gallery

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