Professional weenie Shia LaBeouf ran 144 laps around the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam today as part of a performance art piece.

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

For almost a year, a 19-year-old London art-school brat claimed he'd stage a jarring art performance in which he'd publicly give up his virginity through anal sex with a male friend. Sounds awful, right? Well, the performance's execution turned out much, much worse.

When Bryan Lewis Saunders heard from a friend about a "fuck mattress" near his apartment that was in the service of some local prostitutes, he did what any other person who also happens to be a performance artist would do: He decided to give it an extreme makeover.

Some would argue that dragging a chain gang of preschoolers through Union Square to witness "performance artist" Matthew Silver going HAM on a bass drum with the broken pink handle of a child's riding toy could be considered child abuse.

The fruits of Jay Z's six-hour lip-synching labor last month at New York's Pace Gallery premiered last night on HBO in the form of the 10-minute "performance art movie" "Picasso Baby."

Currently, businessman-cum-business, man Jay-Z is lip-synching Magna Carta Holy Grail's "Picasso Baby" at New York's Pace Gallery. He is expected to do this for six hours in total.

A woman who was arrested for attacking two people in Hallandale Beach, Florida, told a bond court judge she was merely a misunderstood street artist who was "trying to do some artwork."

City officials in Ichihara, Japan have just opened what they are calling "the biggest public toilet in the world," The Japan Times reports.

In celebration of Earth Day, performance artist Alison Knowles is making a really big salad. While the video above is from the Tate Gallery in London, Knowles' salad-making piece is currently being performed at the Chelsea Market Passage on the High Line.

Some two years ago, Lilith Performance Studio invited Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo to exhibit an older piece of hers entitled "EXERGIE- Butter dance."

For their project "Super Rat," the members of the Japanese performance art collective ChimPom ran around the streets of Tokyo catching gigantic, poison-immune rats, took the rats home, then stuffed them and painted them up to look like the Pokemon character Pikachu. Art! It's a living.

[The Guinness World Record holder for the longest ice bath, Wim "Iceman" Hof of the Netherlands, took a dip in an ice bath in Hong Kong today to raise awareness of global warming. Image via AP]

It's bad enough that these do-gooders hid their do-gooder message inside an innocent popcorn ad. But having an actor planted in the movie audience, to magically join the ad? We're never, ever learning first aid, just to protest this. [Copyranter]

James Franco's favorite things are soap operas, queer film roles, performance art, drag queens, and sleeping in class. He talks about his new project combining four of those five in this new interview from (where else?) L.A.'s Gay Pride festival.

["Young San Fransisco, Don't Tell Me No Lies," Mixed Media, 2010, artwork courtesy the artist. Charticle of the Hour is a March of Paradigms/Grimm Industries production. The artists intend to stimulate with this what they call "the collective entrepreneurial consciousness."]

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As a dedicated fan of the dumb art that is tag-related humor, this is particularly enjoyable: some cute Hulu users decided to mark up Jay Leno clips. Funny! Because lots of people use Hulu, and will see things like this: