Roundup: National parks graffiti, all Broad all the time, the danger of trigger warnings

Reviews on the new Broad museum start to land. The San Francisco Chronicle hires a new art critic. And how O.C.’s mobile home parks may be catching the eye of developers — to the detriment of retirees and the working class. Plus: Graffiti in national parks mapped, the state of the creative economy, a Postmodern maternity dress and Yelp reviews of jails.

— But first, this absolutely must-read piece in the Atlantic on why trigger warnings are bad for American education.

— The creative economy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be for fine artists, reports Ben Davis. Very few make it into art’s professional ranks.

— Orange County’s mobile home parks — long a refuge for the elderly and the working class — have caught the eye of developers aiming to take increasingly valuable land condo.

— A map of the most graffitied national parks. In related news: rock art vandalized by geology students. (Weisslink)

— Writer Greg Allen picks apart art speculator Stefan Simchowitz’s lawsuit against Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama.

— The San Francisco Chronicle hires Charles Desmarais, currently the president of the San Francisco Art Institute, as its new art critic.

— The reviews are starting to come in on the new Broad museum in downtown L.A., with a pair of critiques by the L.A. Times’s Christopher Knight and New York Times’s Holland Cotter — both of whom enjoyed aspects of the new install but were less than wowed with the Broad collection’s focus on dude-heavy, market-tested art. Also, Cotter thinks the building’s skin looks like gefilte fish. (?!?!) I think if the building looks like any foodstuff, it’s spun sugar.

— An interesting profile of abstract painter Frank Stella, who will be the subject of the Whitney Museum’s first retrospective. The best part is this quote about Jeff Koons: “You know what I always thought he was like? The Franklin Mint. He’s from Pennsylvania, and he outdid them. He outshone them! It’s for very wealthy people with no taste.” Burn.

— It’s not just painting that is dead. It’s all of Western art, writes Michael Bise.

— Speaking of which, Banksy’s art may be more kitsch than satire, writes Dan Brooks.

— Plus, a forceful essay by Cathy Young on how the fight against cultural appropriation has gone too far.

— Is starchitecture turning every city into a global everyplace?

— A look back at Grace Jones’s groundbreaking Postmodern maternity dress. (All part of Dezeen’s Postmodern summer coverage.)

— 99% Invisible has a podcast on the ways the Bradbury building has been used in film.

— Military patterns as a form of land art: Boom has an interesting piece about test patterns painted onto the earth by the Air Force that allowed them to determine the scale and resolve of spy plane imagery.

— A concept camera that won’t let you shoot unoriginal photographs. Somebody please hand these out at any place serving cappuccinos.

— The Oregon-based Ursula K. Le Guin talks about writing, poetry and what drives her batty about East Coast types in Interview magazine: “I get bored with the parochialness of the East Coast. They think that the news doesn’t get out here and that people out here live in rustic ignorance of real life.”

— On the origins of the zombie.

— Yelp reviews of jails. (Citylab)

— And last but not least, a handy instructional video on how to be gluten intolerant.

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