The brainchild of photographer Bran Symondson, AKA Peace brings together AK-47–themed artworks by artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jeremy Deller, and Damien Hirst to fundraise for the UK-based NGO Peace One Day.

Basquiat’s legacy might be about to change. His earliest known work—the “SAMO© high-school notebook”—lives at a Yale library and, according to a new legal case, may not solely be Basquiat’s work. Plus, some involved, say it was illegally sold.

Painter Mickalene Thomas on the impact of Jacques Lacan’s philosophy in her work: “To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I’m interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.”

Campbell Soup Company is taking Warhol-mania one step further with its “Pop Art Portraits.” A new Facebook app turns profile photos into Warholian silkscreens, which—according to the company—could end up as Campbell’s official cover photo.

DC’s Contemporary Wing, a 14th street modern art gallery, is will welcome a giant “civil-rights themed installation” by French graffiti artist JR. This will mark his first project in Washington and will be based on the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of ‘68.

From Chris Ofili’s Blessed Virgin Mary to the anti-Muslim film that sparked riots across the Muslim world, images of the sacred “have generated intense conflict,” write the authors of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America.

Kehinde Wiley’s World Stage aims to “chart the presence of black and brown people” globally, but Orlando Reade finds its Israel section “superficial, almost naive,” considering its failure to address concerns about the treatment of Africans there.

Around 11% of works in the Museum of Fine Art’s collection are by women, a fact the Guerrilla Girls are protesting with a new billboard truck recently parked in front of the Boston venue. It reads: “Do women have to be naked to get into Boston museums?”