The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, USA has operated continuously longer than any other art museum west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1885, it boasts an excellent collection of early California art including important works of Albert Bierstadt, Xavier Martinez, William Keith, and Thomas Hill; in addition there is an old master drawings collection containing pieces of Rembrandt, Durer, and Francois Boucher. The core collection gifted by Judge E.B. Crocker has grown to a count of over 14,000 pieces. The Crocker Museum is the leading art museum of the capitol district and California Central Valley.

From the world of obnoxious, Chris Crocker has brokered out this 20x20 inch self portrait of himself, lying half naked in his "Britney Pool," to be sold at Just Britney, an art show celebrating the pop princess. Crocker's portrait will go for a cool $1000.

"Leave Britney Alone": Chris Crocker's Pathetic YouTube Performance Art. Chris Crocker defends Britney Spears' Pitiful Train-Wreck MTV Performance this week. Photograph and both videos are included.

Seattle's alt-weekly "The Stranger" has an very interesting look into the world of Chris Crocker, right in the middle of his 15 minutes of fame. Turns out he's not an art student or a scammer, he's just a gay teenager trapped in a hostile little town in the deep south.

Imagine the high culture of the Persian court—and its dense, complex, artful language. Imagine yourself arriving in Persepolis 2,500 years ago, an outlander from a distant region the Persians considered barbaric and uncivilized. ... When US envoy Ryan Crocker met yesterday with Iran’s Hassan Kazemi-Qomi in Baghdad, he expressed...