Singapore doesn't have the best gay track record. Just this year the city-state has fined two television stations for depictions of same-sex love.

It should come as no surprise to hear, then, that artist Martin Loh's 24-image collection, "Pain To Pleasure," which illustrate men in S&M situations, has been axed.

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"Vertigo" may not be as skin-filled as photo duo Exterface's previous offerings, but model Sébastien's got us swooning. Check him out, after the jump.

Beware a bit of tush, however.

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Dreamy Australian artist Vincent Fantauzzo took home the Archibald People's Choice Prize today for his eerie portrait of Heath Ledger, who died less than a month later.

Note to self: don't sit for Fantauzzo portrait.

Like a mutating beast, New York's ever-evolving. And the art scene's no different.

With the opening of the new New Museum on the Bowery, our Lower East Side's again becoming an epicenter for urban artistic activity. Gallerists Dennis Christie and Ken Tyburski couldn't resist the pull and recently unveiled their DCKT Contemporary's new location just down the famed road from the Museum.

In celebration of the event, 35-year old Christie recently sat down with Queerty contributor Justin Conner to discuss his artistic roots, how to late Andy Warhol pulled him to the city and why he ignores the market's boom, even if it could go bust.

Check it out, after the jump.

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Who's in need of a little Monday afternoon boost? We are! Thus, in an effort to perk everyone up, here are some shots from our favorite French artistic duo Exterface's most recent shoot, Master/Slave.

Oh, we've stuck them after the jump because there are some NSFW shots and we don't want you getting sacked.

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Art fans have no doubt heard the name John Connelly.

The 40-year old curator currently commands quite the cadre of artists, including AA Bronson, Scott Treleaven and Nick Lowe. One would assume that Connelly always felt the aesthetic love, but - as we all know - assuming only brings trouble.

In fact, Connelly originally wanted to be an actor, but found himself distracted by art history, a pursuit that plunged him straight into New York creative pool.

Now, a few years on, Connelly's 27th street gallery, John Connelly Presents, consistently puts on a good show, like Nao Tsuda's Tunnel Room, on view until May 10th.

Our pal Justin Conner recently sat down with Connelly to talk artistic evolution, how AIDS affects art today and why Bronson's butt massages are bomb.

Read all about it, after the jump.

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New York's art scene gets some West Coast love this evening as Nicole J. Georges and "Sister Spit" descend upon our sleepy little town.

The quartet sprang from the mind of San Francisco-based author and literary curator Michelle Tea, who last year piled some pals into a van and toured the States to spread their poetic gospel.

"Some pals" may be a bit dismissive, especially considering the quartet's all-star, all-lesbianic line-up. In addition to Tea, Sister Spit consists of author and short filmmaker Tara Jensen, author Rihannon Argo and the aforementioned Ms. Georges, a zinemaker and artist who specializes in furry, somewhat disquieting creatures.

Georges and the gals reunite in NYC tonight for a one-off reunion and, in celebration of the event, Queerty correspondent Megan Metzger chatted with the pet portraitist about touring with the Sisters, why we should remember 'zines, picking her beastly subjects and the difference between East Coast and West Coast artists.

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Meanwhile, in other Ivy league news, a Yale art student has a queer aesthetic:

Beginning next Tuesday, [Aliza] Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

This chick's either vilely pretentious, a genius or just plain insane. And we imagine her womb looks like a Pollock.

Andrew Calimach's sexual awakening came at a queer time: while at amuseum with his parents.

The family had fled communist Romania and found themselves in Rome, where the 13-ish Calimach felt his first gay pang:

I remember standing in a museum in Rome, maybe the Villa Borghese, staring at this ancient bronze statue of a boy about my own age, naked, pulling a thorn from his foot. I remember my parents trying to drag me away, and me staring and staring, desiring that naked boy.

Hungry for more, the lustful Calimach soon heard murmurs of homo-flavored Greek myths, which only fueled his pubescent curiosity. But, alas, those myths were buried, censored or simply destroyed. It was around that time, Calimach tells our editor, that he decided to dig up the long-lost tales of love and spread the love. And, after about forty years and inmeasurable determination, Calimach published Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths.

More than just ancient masturbatory material, Calimach found romantic tutorials. The 55-year old historian tells our editor, "The more I study these myths, the more I see in them the Greek's loving guidance: how to love, how to be loved, how not to hurt your lover…" Calimach also gives us the scoop on communism's positive attributes, why he never came out to his parents and how pederasty still exists. After the jump, of course…

[Image: Lovers Zeus and Ganymede sleep while Prometheus, that bastard, steals the Gods' fire.]

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Our favorite photographic duo, Exterface and model Greg David gets ready for summer with a new shoot, Sea Sex Sun. Check out some of the NSFW shots, after the jump.

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There's no real narrative to these Thomas Synnamon shots of a man gazing at ladies panties, but we're sure you can write one yourself.

They're NSFW, btw.

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Brooklyn brings out the best in Anna Wintour. We've never seen the Vogue editrix look as happy as she did with Marc Jacobs at the Brooklyn Museum's launch of their Murakami retrospective. We can't help but wonder what Wintour's doing with her other hand. Something perverted, probably.

Meanwhile, Kanye West looks none-too-pleased to be shot with Kristen Davis, while Jacobs got snap happy with the artist himself, Takashi Murakami. We guess pretense goes out the window when you cross the East River.

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Britain's got some angry artists on its hands after the Arts Council asked recent applicants to declare their sexuality.

The Council claims they want to make sure grants go to a diverse pool, but creative types are crying "foul!" Actor Ian McKellan spoke out against the queer addition, saying, "It sounds extraordinary, It shouldn't be on a form. It's quite inappropriate." Gallerist and curator Julian Spalding, meanwhile, couldn't find the words to describe his disbelief, "I'm speechless. I can't see what relevance it's got. It's a horrible invasion into one's personal and private life."

Perhaps actress Vanessa Redgrave offered the most humorous response, "Everyone should put down 'trisexual' whoever you are. Britain has become the world's leading population of trisexuals." Well, you know those artsy types…

We were initially skeptical of DailyMotion's gay channel. Rufus and Johnny McGovern? Is this the best they can do?! Then we came across this video of artist-cum-icon AA Bronson walking VBS TV through his since dismantled show, "AA Bronson's School For Young Shamans".

Those of you who missed it - and our chats with Bronson - should give it a "walk" through, although you'll miss the wonderful sage.

Things were oh-so-hip at photographer Brad Walsh's apartment this weekend. The ever-jubilant Walsh, pictured above with Project Runway winning boyfriend, Christian Siriano, invited a few hundred friends into his Park Slope pad to view his first portrait collection, Cameo.

Walsh's pals at Junk-Mag shot some shots of the madness, including one of editor Andrew Belonsky with Mollygood's Cord Jefferson, a lovely image of Sophia Lamar getting incoherent and some random hottie we think would make a beautiful Morning Goods candidate…

See the rest of the snaps here.