> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Required Reading - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-36/ - Published: 2011-11-13T18:18:30.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:34:19.000Z - Description: 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? - Author: Hrag Vartanian - Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Caravaggio, Chris Martin, Christo, Critics, Iran, Man Bartlett, Norte Maar, Occupy Wall Street, Required Reading, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/11/caravaggio-new-600.jpg) 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? ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) The story of a [newly discovered Caravaggio](http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.12-art-going-for-baroque/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that debuted at the National Gallery of Canada’s [*Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome*](http://www.gallery.ca/caravaggio/en/index.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) show this past summer. According to the author, the painting demonstrates a “serene side to art history’s rebellious rock star.” ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) Christo’s “[Over the River” project in Colorado has been approved](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/us/United-States-Approves-Christos-Over-the-River-Project-in-Colorado.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). It will include “eight suspended panel segments totaling 5.9 miles along a 42-mile stretch of the river, about three hours southwest of Denver.” ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) Every artist deals with critics differently, but this novelist decided to [seek out his harshest critic](http://www.themorningnews.org/article/this-is-not-a-george-plimpton-interview?ref=hyperallergic.com) and interviews him. ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) Take a look at the Guardian’s [interview with famed British designer Terence Conran](http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/nov/06/terence-conran-interview-design-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com), 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.” ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) 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](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-the-herman-cain-art-project-is-so-good-howard-stern-is-jealous/?ref=hyperallergic.com), as if it was some sort of [performance art work](http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rachel-maddow-kicks-herself-for-not-realizing-herman-cain-is-a-performance-art-project/?ref=hyperallergic.com). ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) 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](http://nortemaar.org/2011/11/erasing-chris-martin/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning” (1953). ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) Incidental comics explores [how to escape the digital world](http://laughingsquid.com/escape-from-the-digital-world/?ref=hyperallergic.com). ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) Street art and graffiti is evolving quite nicely in Iran — don’t be surprised — just check out [these](http://vimeo.com/26372466?ref=hyperallergic.com) [videos](http://vimeo.com/30602926?ref=hyperallergic.com) from A1one, one of the country’s leading street artists. Here is [my interview](http://zine.artcat.com/2008/07/interview.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) with A1one from 2008. ![](http://c2771442.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/H-12.png) The [Occupy Movement is targeting art schools](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/occupy-miami-targets-art-%5Fn%5F1080300.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Miami. According to the Huffington Post article: > “More than fifty protesters gathered to protest a particular instance of a general discontent: the art world’s dependence on financial powers.” [*Required Reading*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/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.*