COURTESY THE ARTIST
Wild West
Adam West, a.k.a Batman, is selling his Batman-related art in Idaho. [TMZ]
New York art dealer Nancy Wiener has been charged and arraigned for allegedly selling smuggled antiquities to buyers including Sotheby’s and Christie’s. [The Wall Street Journal]
Ed Ruscha picks the “most L.A.” restaurant in L.A., which is obviously Musso & Frank Grill. [Lucky Peach]
Star Power
Food critic Pete Wells likes the steak at Wolfgang Puck’s first New York restaurant, but he is not a fan of the Alex Israel/Bret Easton Ellis artwork that was commissioned for it. [The New York Times]
Actress Felicity Jones, the star of the new Star Wars (whom Nate Freeman met in an East Village bar once, she was super nice!), will get a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in London. [The Guardian]
Sexy, sexy art handlers and their sexy, sexy stares. [The Creators Project]
‘Tis the Season
Here are photos of entries in the National Gingerbread House Competition. [OPB]
Fab Fad
“One of Serbia’s leading political parties has denounced a decision to build a monument to Andy Warhol in the capital of Belgrade, describing Pop art as a ‘fad.’ ” [The Art Newspaper]
Entropy
A MoMA media conservator muses on fighting the tide of time. [Medium]
Introspection
Sarah Boxer goes long on the lot and laurels of women artists in the 20th century. [The Atlantic]
Argentine artist Julio Le Parc walks and talks through his show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. [Clarin]