“A Night When Chic Met Tough”: Eric Wilson at the Costume Institute Institute gala. There were Jell-O shots for dessert. [NYT]

“He painted houses for a living, but prosecutors say Joselito Vega had a discerning eye for the more rarefied practitioners of his craft — Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Frank Stella [and stole works by them from the family of Rudolph B. and Hannelore B. Schulhof].” [NYT] Read More

This morning the Metropolitan Museum of Art offered journalists an early look at its latest Costume Institute show, “PUNK: Chaos to Couture,” which opens tomorrow. The show earned mixed reviews on social media, but nearly everyone took an opportunity to comment on the fact that one room features a recreation of the bathrooms at CBGB. Which is kind of amusing, if unexpected. Read More

The New York Times reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art will return two 10th-century Khmer statues to Cambodia, following “new documentary research by the museum that corroborated Cambodian claims that the works had been improperly removed from their site at the Koh Ker temple complex.” Read More

In her Financial Times column this week, Georgina Adam mentions that Larry Gagosian personally owns one of the five Richard Prince works that were recently sent back to a lower court to determine whether or not the works adequately modify the photography of Patrick Cariou. Read More

In light of a few recent lawsuits involving the clothing brand Supreme, Complex magazine reached out to Barbara Kruger for her thoughts on the brand, the logo of which clearly apes her white-on-red text style. Read More

Pretty much apropos of nothing, Kriston Capps, senior editor at Architect magazine and prominent art world Twitterer, took to the social media platform last night to shake a fist at the website Babes at the Museum, a years-old Sartorialist-style site that regulates its ogling to arts institutions, and women. Read More