The “new” Caravaggio, “Saint Augustine” (1600) (via walrusmagazine.com)
This week, how a Caravaggio becomes “discovered” and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?
The story of a newly discovered Caravaggio that debuted at the National Gallery of Canada’s Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome show this past summer. According to the author, the painting demonstrates a “serene side to art history’s rebellious rock star.”
Every artist deals with critics differently, but this novelist decided to seek out his harshest critic and interviews him.
Take a look at the Guardian’s interview with famed British designer Terence Conran, who has been a big influence on modern interior design and was the man who created and endowed London’s Design Museum. Conran played “a leading role in the transformation of postwar British taste.”
The Republican presidential primaries have already started off to a bizarre start. MSNBC news personality Rachel Maddow has been so confused by the Herman Cain campaign that she has started calling it the Herman Cain Art Project, as if it was some sort of performance art work.
The Bushwick-based nonprofit Norte Maar wasn’t sure what to do with a small wall doodle by well-respected painter Chris Martin. They finally decided to invite artist Man Bartlett to erase the work in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning” (1953).
Street art and graffiti is evolving quite nicely in Iran — don’t be surprised — just check out thesevideos from A1one, one of the country’s leading street artists. Here is my interview with A1one from 2008.
“More than fifty protesters gathered to protest a particular instance of a general discontent: the art world’s dependence on financial powers.”
Required Reading is published every Sunday morning-ish, and it is comprised of a short list of art-related links (10 or less) to long-form articles, videos, blog posts or photo essays worth a second look.
The Tweet comparing an ominous screen capture from the Tucker Carlson Show to one of Holzer’s Truisms is being sold as an NFT to benefit crucial organizations in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
Shows at the Hudson Valley’s Hessel Museum of Art feature artists Dara Birnbaum and Martine Syms, as well as new scholarship on Black melancholia as an artistic and critical practice.
On the day of the Supreme Court’s decision to undo 50 years of constitutional rights to abortion, artist Elana Mann’s “protest rattles” feel especially poignant and urgent.
Contemporary Black-Indigenous women artists Rodslen Brown, Joelle Joyner, Moira Pernambuco, Paige Pettibon, Monica Rickert-Bolter, and Storme Webber are featured in this digital exhibition.
Hall makes no attempt to entice the viewer to begin looking and to look again, letting her methodical craft compel viewers to reflect upon their experience.
A new project by Columbia’s Queer Students of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation explores queer histories that have been suppressed by gentrification and urban development.