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Edvard Munch "The Scream"

Can't afford $119,922,500 for a pastel? A poster will run you about $19.99.

The 12 minutes of art-auction hysteria has led to yet another re-evaluation of, if not outrage about, the price we put on art and who gets to "own" it. The bidder(s) for the pastel of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" remains anonymous, but hammer prices like that in an economy like this has raised questions on who's driving up these high-profile sales lately. For some critics, the lopsided economics highlight that yawning gulf between art buyers and artists (that 1% thing again), with art lovers lost somewhere in the middle.

In the case of Munch, though, the $119 million isn't just getting renewed respect for the revered artist right before his sesquicentennial birthday: Devotees will be able to visit the source of "The Scream" for themselves.

Why the record-breaking art sales: Aside from "The Scream," Sotheby's did gangbusters in its May 2

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It's common practice for celebrities to publicly endorse a candidate, but what if that candidate happens to be in high school? Two stars from AMC's "Breaking Bad," Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, are appearing in a YouTube video as their "Breaking Bad" characters to support Maxwell Ulin for student body president of the posh Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences in Santa Monica, California. Ulin's competition, Summer Kennedy, enlisted another "Breaking Bad" star, Giancarlo Esposito, to appear in her own stump video. It's unclear how these high-profile gets came to be, but Crossroads has no shortage of well-connected students. The prep school is the alma mater of Kate Hudson, Jack Black, Zooey Deschanel, and Maya Rudolph, to name a few.

In honor of "Star Wars Day" on -- yes, there is such a thing -- on May 4 (mark your calendar for next year), enterprising musician Nick McKaig released a completely a cappella

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Sometimes a single photograph says it all. Vladimir Putin's inauguration is being protested by thousands of Russians who marched and rioted in Moscow over the weekend. Photojournalist Julia Ioffe was live-tweeting from the scene when she happened to snap a little boy on his bicycle (with training wheels, no less) facing down a seemingly endless squadron of Russian riot police in helmets and fatigues. The photo is fast becoming an iconic image of the demonstrators' anger at Putin's return to power. Ioffe called the picture "Russia's Tiananmen Square image," comparing it to the memorable shot of a lone man in a white shirt standing in front of a column of tanks during the 1989 protests in Beijing. Ioffe tweeted the picture to her 6,000 followers, and it's being rapidly retweeted and shared on Tumblr blogs. The boy's identity is unknown at this point, but he will no doubt become an important symbol for Russian