Art: A piece of sculpture at the Pratt Institute asks you to scribble down your inner-most thought. Relax, it’s art. Comment.

Art: Check out Melitte Buchman’s tintype portraits. Comments (2).

Cleaning the Gowanus: Finally, teens have turned the Gowanus Canal into a macabre costume party. Comments (1).

Art: Our reviewer gives a rave to “Who Shot Rock & Roll,” opening on Friday at the Brooklyn Museum. Comments (1).

Art: Stephen Wiltshire hails from London, but his knowledge of Manhattan’s skyline could stump any New Yorker. Comments (3).

Art: The hot graffiti artist, who has a show opening later this month, is still dodging our questions. Comments (9).

Art: A shuttered novelty toy factory is about to become Boerum Hill’s newest arts destination. Comments (3).

Art: Finally, an art show that will cause a gut reaction. Comment.

Art: The King of Pop — a god? Comments (15).

Art: A Crown Heights condo building finally got some tenants last week when the arts group Super/Prime turned it into a gallery. Comments (1).

Art: Times have certainly changed since ladies improved their figures with whalebone girdles — but a new photography show at the Brooklyn Public Library shows that nature is eternal. Comment.

Art: The Convent of St. Cecilia in Greenpoint housed nuns until last year, but on Friday, it will become a different kind of haven. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension brought his axe — and his love of Rembrandt — to Amsterdam last week. Here’s his report. Comments (1).

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: The Butcher of Flatbush Avenue Extension raves about Yinka Shonibare. Comment.

Art: Meet a woman artist who uses one of the most disgusting places in the city as her muse — in this exclusive video! With video … Comment.

Art: Mike Stein’s newspaper photos from the 1980s are worth checking out at the Brooklyn Public Library. Comment.

Art: The sixth annual Atlantic Avenue Artwalk this weekend has the same 200 or so artists, the same wide range of studio openings, and plenty of film screenings and live music — but this year, it’s a “recession-friendly event,” thanks to plenty of freebies and discounted menus at restaurants. Comments (1).

Art: The second annual neighborhood-wide photo event is coming next weekend. Comments (1).

Art: Dawn Robyn Petrlik could have been excused for going negative with the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition’s spring art show, but she went with hope anyway. Comment.

Art: You know him as Hepcat, the brooding, sometimes ornery, sometimes unemployed, husband behind the award-winning Smartmom, but Hugh Crawford is also the Ansel Adams of Brooklyn. Comments (3).

Art: The theme of the Micro Museum’s newest exhibit, “DNA ’r Us,” is genes. But don’t come expecting to learn about biology when the show opens on April 25. Comment.

Art: The borough’s most sensational anti-advertising activist has sold out! Comments (2).

Art: Your racy cellphone photos, sultry mobile videos, and salacious text messages aren’t just 21st-century smut — they’re also high art. Comment.

Art: The Brooklyn Philharmonic might want to consider playing a funeral march — the cash-strapped orchestra just cut the remainder of its 2009 season, and laid off four workers, due to a lack of funding. Comment.

Art: Gustave Caillebotte may be the Rutherford B. Hayes of Impressionist painters. True, his name might not often be mentioned in the same breath as Monet and Renoir, but without this canvas jockey, the whole artistic movement might never have gotten off the lily pad. Comment.

Art: Artist Sun Kwak is covering an entire gallery with black masking tape. No, it’s cool. Really cool. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The massive Atlantic Yards development project inspires rage in some and hope in others — but in Guy Ambrosino, it inspires a twisted art installment. Comment.

Art: Owning a piece of artistic history was never so dreamy. Comment.

Art: The Museum of Modern Art — with more masterpieces than an art history textbook — took a shot across the Bauhaus of the Brooklyn Museum this week, plastering a Downtown subway station with ads that will turn it into a month-long annex of the Manhattan institution. Comments (7).

Art: Got a deep dark secret? Why not post it on the front of a Park Slope vintage jewelry and clothing store? Comments (1).

Art: The economy may stink, but that isn’t stopping the owners of two new art galleries. Comment.

Art: Artist Crit Streed is literally putting herself on a pedestal with her new project. Comments (3).

Art: For all of you who have looked at a piece of modern art and muttered, “My kid could do that,” boy, do we have an art show for you. Comment.