The "butt-printing-artist" Stephen Murmer has reportedly been suspended by Chesterfield County school officials saying he may be setting a bad example for students through his outside artistic activities. Murmer an art teacher at Monacan High School, is known for creating floral and abstract art by plastering his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas.

Stephen Murmer is a popular art teacher, with an unusual second job. Using an alias and disguises, Murmer is an artist that creates floral and abstract art with his butt and genitals. Paintings that can command a few hundred dollars per piece, have done little to quell the angst and disapproval of Murmer's school board officials.

A critic of the newest Turner Award recipient said the artist's work was drab. Even winner Tomma Abts, the first women to receive the award, said her paintings start unplanned and in the end signify nothing.

More than 50 percent of Americans have passed on gifts they've received to other people, and 78 percent think "re-gifting" is okay some or most of the time, according to a study released Wednesday. A survey of 1,505 adults conducted by market research firm Harris Interactive showed people are most likely to re-gift decorative household items like vases, paintings, picture frames and other trinkets. Seventy-seven percent of the re-gifters said they did it because they thought the gift was a perfect match for the person they passed it on to. Nine percent said they did it because laziness prevented them from present shopping, and four percent said they re-gifted because they didn't like the recipient.

Pope Benedict on Wednesday wore an old Saturno hat in St. Peter's Square, Vatican during his weekly audience with the public. The Holy Father surprised tens of thousands of people who gathered at the square by wearing an odd, "wide-brimmed" red hat while on his "pope mobile. " The hat is commonly known in Italian as a "saturno" due to its resemblance of the planet Saturn.