Confused by all the twists and turns in the recent history of LA MOCA? Carolina Miranda translates the story in gif format, using pop-culture references from Jon Stewart and King Kong to Monty Python and Star Wars.

An oil trader paid $100M by Citigroup the year the government bailed the company out now owns a private art museum in Vermont. In its collection: photos by Edward Burtynsky, who documents environmental damage from extraction industries.

“Metal, often derided and dismissed, is a rich resource for anyone who wants to transgress repressive norms,” writes Keith Kahn-Harris on news Ai Weiwei is releasing a metal-influenced album with musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou (featuring cover art by Ai).

“I’ve never trusted art,” says Llyn Foulkes, whose “unfiltered and so unpretentious” art caught the attention of Hammer Museum curator Ali Subotnick. The Los Angeles museum is hosting a career retrospective of the artist and musician through May.

The LA County Museum of Art has made a formal proposal to take over financially troubled MOCA. In a Feb. 24 letter, MOCA officials said the proposed deal would keep the two downtown venues open under the MOCA name.

A new top-10 list by Abraham Cruzvillegas—whose show The Autoconstrucción Suites opens at the Walker Mar. 23—points out cultural moments from Werner Herzog’s The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) to Mexico’s Stridentism movement, launched in the 1920s.

Scholar, critic, translator, and poet Thomas McEvilley has passed away at age 73 from complications of cancer. A prolific author, he penned numerous volumes including 2010’s Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art.

“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my process—this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries,” says Ellen Gallagher, whose work is in our collection. A fitting way to look at her work? The repetitive GIF format!

Coinciding with his new show in Paris, Ron Mueck, whose hyperrealistic art is on view in our show Lifelike (opening Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego), is the subject of a new film by Gautier Deblonde, who documents the reclusive artist at work.