Roundup: The Met’s controversial new logo, Shia LaBeouf in an elevator, L.A.’s future transit system

A new logo sends the art and design worlds spinning. An Egyptian gallery reopens after being shut down by authorities. Shia LaBeouf hangs out in an elevator. Plus: 3D printed re-creations of destroyed artifacts, the life of “Las Meninas” and Damien Hirst’s new restaurant. Here’s the Roundup:

— The Metropolitan Museum of Art has redesigned its logo and it’s making the design writers cray cray. The Met responds (full statement here). More on the brouhaha here. Plus: Some artists and designers re-imagine the new logo.

— The Egyptian gallery Townhouse has been allowed to reopen after being shuttered by government authorities — but under strict censorship controls.

A still from a video shows an Islamic State militant destroying the statue of Lamassu, an Assyrian diety, in the northern Iraqi Governorate of Nineveh last year.

(AFP/Getty Images)

— Artifacts destroyed by Islamic State militants are now available for 3D printing, courtesy of artist Morehshin Allahyari and Rhizome.

— In related news: 3D printing is bad for you.

— Vladimir Putin scolded cultural officials in Russia for the destruction of historic sites there, while in Romania, more than 600 architectural monuments are close to collapse. (World Monuments Fund)

— The Prado Museum withholds two works for a show about painter Hieronymus Bosch in Amsterdam after the Bosch Research and Conservation Project concluded that the paintings weren’t created by the artist, but likely his workshop instead. The ruling has resulted in acrimony between the two institutions.

— The adventuresome life of Diego Velazquez’s “Las Meninas.” (Weisslink)

— The smartest piece I’ve read yet on the work of Kehinde Wiley, courtesy of Jen Graves.

— Critic Ryan Steadman says that there is a crop of young painters with high auction results who are pretty much biting off of painters before them. Weirdly, he doesn’t mention the typical labels for this type of regurgative work: “Zombie formalism” and “modest abstraction.”

— The artist making an instrument every day.

Painter Richard Diebenkorn in the 1970s.

(Larry Sharkey / Los Angeles Times)

— Stanford’s Cantor Art Center has put Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks online. This is amazing.

— The North Korean sculpture studio making all the best monumental dictator art. (Weisslink)

— People in prison drawing people who should be.

— The décor of the new Damien Hirst restaurant in London is very Tomorrowland meets Valley of the Dolls.

— In other celebrity art: Shia LaBeouf spent 24 hours in an elevator.

— “Dark Spaces” is a new book by a Columbia University architecture professor that looks at the relationship between architecture and black identity.

— The big news in L.A. last week was that LACMA acquired John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein House. The architect’s disdain for Los Angeles is well known. But this quote, about Santa Monica Boulevard, tops ‘em all.

— Here’s what L.A.’s transit system could look like in 2040. It includes lines through Beverly Hills. If the lines are built, that means I wouldn’t have to sully pristine BH with the sights and sounds of my tin can Toyota blaring dirty bachatas.

— Speaking of which: Düsseldorf has a metro station with art instead advertising. This is so dignified and wonderful. Someone, please bring the concept here.

— Last but not least: Your selfies aren’t that original.

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