The Los Angeles Times reports that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is currently in talks to purchase the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. How this will affect MOCA’s embattled director Jeffrey Deitch is anyone’s guess. Read more here.

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it has acquired a Flemish illuminated manuscript by Lieven van Lathem, Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies. The Los Angeles Times reports that the book was purchased for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday. Read More

The Los Angeles Times reported today that Los Angeles’s Margo Leavin Gallery, which has been in business for more than four decades and has featured exhibitions of John Baldessari and others, will close its doors. The gallery was also a fixture of important international art fairs like Art Basel. Explaining the gallery’s decision, business partner Wendy Brandow told the Times: Read More

Art in America has surveyed three members of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art board in the wake of the deaprture of chief curator Paul Schimmel and the four artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie and Ed Ruscha, who sat on the board. Read More

Yesterday a judge in Santa Clara County heard the early arguments in the battle over Thomas Kinkade’s estate. Kinkade’s girlfriend at the time of his death in April, Amy Pinto-Walsh, presented a hand-written document that, she says, lays claim to “his grand home called Ivy Gate and $10 million to Pinto-Walsh” and the right to administer $66.3 million from the artist’s estate, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Read More