Round-Up: Hong Kong protest art, an Iraqi photo agency, lots of Gehry

New trustees at MOCA, vandalism at the national parks, early satellite images of Antarctica, and the beguiling installation sculptures produced by the protesters in Hong Kong. Plus, everything Frank Gehry and Cannibal Shia LaBeouf. It’s the Round-Up:

— Let’s start with the good news at the Museum of Contemporary Art: The institution has elected four new members to its Board of Trustees, including artist Mark Bradford (who, incidentally, has some terrific pieces on view in the L.A. County Museum of Art’s abstraction show).

— And on to the questionable: An artist named Casey Nocket has been vandalizing Yosemite and other national parks, signing her graffiti markings “Creepytings.”

— Newfound satellite images from the 1960s give the earliest complete view of Antarctica before global warming.

— Plus: Photographic evidence that contemporary suburban construction techniques are the urban equivalent of mountaintop removal mining.

— “Umbrella Man” and more Hong Kong protest art.

— Metrography, the first and only independent photo agency in Iraq.

— A Mexican doctor resists the cartels with her Tweets, only to have her murder Tweeted by the cartels. A gripping look at life in Tamaulipas, where the narcos have put a virtual blackout on media activity.

— “Staring into the heart of human darkness exacts a toll.” Adrian Chen has a powerful piece in Wired about the people who moderate all the pornography and violence out of our social media content, many of whom are poorly paid workers in the Philippines.

— RIP Rene Burri, the Magnum photographer who made iconic portraits of Pablo Picasso and Che Guevara.

— If you’re making a living off your art, chances are you’re white, a new analysis of Census data shows. Also, “the fantasy of arts graduates’ future earnings in the arts should be discredited,” it goes on to report. More on the findings here.

— Louis Menand has an interesting story in the New Yorker about the history and purpose of copyright. Speaking of which, the magazine also has a report on how one photographer is trying to protect her images in the age of the Internet.

— German painter Gerhard Richter is totally OK with people taking selfies in front of his work.

— “Like many large institutional systems, the art world claims innovation while rewarding conformity.” Holly Myers has an interesting piece in the Brooklyn Rail about Mike Kelley and the unlikely legacy he has wrought.

— I love a review that tells it like it is: “Richard Prince sucks.” Speaking of which, the artist’s Instagram appropriation paintings appropriated the Instagram of another artist.

— Lots of Frank Gehry news: the Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum in Paris has opened (Christopher Hawthorne has a review), as has a retrospective of the architect’s work at the Pompidou (soon to travel to LACMA). Plus, it appears that Gehry’s revised plan for the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one step closer to getting approved.

— Four architects imagine designs for Obama’s presidential library. Thank goodness there isn’t a neoclassical column in sight.

— The $5.4-billion big dig tunnel proposal to complete the 710 Freeway. L.A. just doesn’t learn its lesson about building more freeways. How about spending that money on more light rail or rapid bus transit?

— “Inside the stadium, the Verizon scoreboard was not to be confused with the Bud Light scoreboard or the Pepsi scoreboard.” Frank Bruni on the relentless pummeling we get from corporate brands.

— Where hyper-masculinity and delicate femininity meet: Artist Zoe Buckman embroiders vintage women’s undergarments with lyrics from songs by Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

— Lastly, some essential viewing: Cannibal Shia LaBeouf. (@EnaMirandaBuns)

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