The Queen of Pop and the King of Pop Art

Remember this post back in June? The Twitter-verse was all a-flutter over a picture Britney Spears tweeted of herself with Takashi Murakami. Given his previous work with Kirsten Dunst, we could not WAIT to see what the Queen of Pop and the King of Pop Art were up too. Well, this week we finally got a glimpse of the result of that meeting. Pop Magazine snatched up Britney to grace the cover of the issue that they got Takashi Murakami to art-direct! We cannot wait to see the rest of this magazine, but for now we'll content ourselves with Britney's triumphant return to the school-girl image.

RTSW

Cy Twombly, The Rose (IV). 2001. Tourism Development & Investment Company of Abu Dhabi has connected famed curator Anne Baldassari with renowned collector Larry Gagosian in order to present RSTW: Rauchenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Twombly, Warhol and Wool. The exhibition draws from Gagosian's legendary collection to present not only a show of otherworldly proportions, but it also an interesting portrait of the collector himself. RTSW will be in the Manarat Al Saadiyat space on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island.

Julian Schnabel: Sofa or Sculpture?

Check out this sneak peek of a sofa designed by Julian Schnabel, shown here at his Montauk home. Found wood has never looked so comfortable.

Children of the Corn

Leave it to Terence Koh and Vito Schnabel (son of Julian Schnabel himself) to open a grand installation in a corn field! Over the weekend art connoisseurs and city socialites took a break from the concrete jungle to take in Koh's latest creations. Children of the Corn features various open-mouthed bunnies on top of totem poles strewn throughout the field. Once guests wound their way through the corn field maze, they dined and wined at the dinner celebrating the exhibition. Guests such as: Liv Tyler, Waris Ahluwalia, and Nachos Figueras were also treated to a rare DJ set from Julian Schnabel himself! Sounds like our kind of party!

Marco Brambilla & Kanye Team Up

Kanye West has been keeping audiences on the edge of their seats waiting for his new album to drop. He's let us hear the first single, pushed the release date back, changed the album's title, and even gotten a Twitter account to let us know when he's listening to the album that we're eagerly awaiting (and to talk about his hatred of sharing elevators).

Kanye has teamed up with artist and film director Marco Brambilla to produce a video of epic proportions for "Power," the first single off the album. According to the enthusiastic new Tweet-er, his video collaboration with Brambilla will not be any mere video—it will be a "painting." Brambilla has created a lush work that draws inspiration from Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel. And, let's face it, Kanye is no stranger to artist collaborations, so this should be fantastic. The rap icon has worked with Takashi Murakami and KAWS, and painter George Conde recently created art for "Power."

You can watch a clip of Kanye and Brambilla's video painting on MTV on Thursday, August 5 at 11 PM.