Unless you spent your college years pursuing an art degree (how's the barista job treating you, by the way?), the world of modern art may not be high on your list of sources for bawdy, raucous entertainment. Grab onto your La-Z-Boy, dear philistine, for we're about to take you on the craziest ride since the first time you saw "Airplane" -- except, you know, this is art ...

Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God"
Crazy like a fox: Hirst covers a platinum-cast skull in 8,601 diamonds, at a cost of between $16 and $20 million. Upside: He sells it for almost $100 million.

Wolfgang Flatz's "Meat"
While hanging from a helicopter, smeared in blood, Wolfgang Flatz dropped a headless bull carcass, stuffed with fireworks, to the ground. Something about this screams "CSI: Miami" teaser to us.

Annie Sprinkle's cervix, dudes covered in honey, miscarriages, poop, fellatio and a bunch of other things you didn't know were art -- all after the jump:

Annie Sprinkle's "Public Cervix Announcement"
Sprinkle invited members of her audience to view her private areas with a speculum and flashlight. Any lingering eroticism attached to public-gynecologist fantasy immediately extinguished.

Piero Manzoni's "Artist's Sh*t"
Manzoni packaged his own excrement in a can and sold it at the market rate for gold. The supreme wish-I'd-thought-of-it moment for broke art students worldwide.

Zhang Huan's "12 Square Meters (12 m2)"
Huan covered himself in honey and fish oil and then went looking for insects to swarm him. Bear Grylls is all, "But I do that like once a week."

Carolee Schneemann's "Interior Scroll"
The most literal Vagina Monologue in history: Carolee Schneemann hid her script up her va-jay-jay, then removed it and read from it, all on stage.

Karen Finley's "Yams Up My Granny's Ass"
Karen Finley inserted yams up her rear -- or maybe she didn't. It's the conceptual-art equivalent of Richard Gere and a certain gerbil.

Marco Evaristti's "Helena: The Goldfish Blender"
Marco Evaristti dropped three goldfish in a blender and asked onlookers to hit the mash button. Animals were almost certainly harmed during the making of this artwork.

Andrea Fraser's "Untitled"
Andrea Fraser convinced a "collector" to pay $20,000 for a sexual encounter with her. The return-on-investment here is significantly improved by the fact that Fraser is a fox. However: still icky.

Maurizio Cattelan's "The Ninth Hour"
A sculpture depicting the Pope hit by a meteorite (shown left) sold for $3 million. Value potentially increased by actual, anti-climactic Pope demise.

Chris Burden's "Trans-fixed"
Burden impaled himself on a Volkswagen Beetle. Possibly not as painful as when Burden had an assistant shoot him -- with, indeed, a loaded gun -- in the arm.

Joseph Deutch's Russian roulette performance
UCLA student Joseph Deutch played Russian roulette in front of an audience. Unfortunately for Deutch, the chief response is a strange hankering to rent "The Deer Hunter."

Guillermo Vargas's "You Are What You Read"
The Costa Rican artist tied an emaciated dog (shown left) to a gallery wall, supposedly in protest over the plight of hungry dogs everywhere. Happy ending: The dog escaped.

Jonathan Yegge's fellatio project
Jonathan Yegge, a San Francisco art student, convinced a classmate to allow Yegge to tie him up and perform fellatio on him. Lawsuits are threatened, but the crafty Yegge had wisely required a signed release form prior to the performance. Seriously.


Jeff Koons's "Made in Heaven"
This series depicted Jeff Koons enjoying a variety of sexual positions, in a variety of mediums, including billboards, glass sculptures (shown left) and more. Stupid ... unless you're Koons.

Marla Olmstead's body of work
Could a pre-schooler -- like this one, star of the documentary "My Kid Could Paint That" -- muster the same painterly genius as a Jackson Pollack? Er, probably not.


Various interlopers, Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"
Assorted passersby attempted to outdo the master by peeing into Marcel Duchamp's iconic conceptual work, "Fountain." (It's a urinal, shown left.) They succeeded chiefly in irritating museum security guards worldwide.

Aliza Shvartz's miscarriage project
Yale MFA student Aliza Shvartz created art from her aborted fetuses -- periodically impregnating herself and then terminating. Except she probably didn't.