The Ignorant Art Historian: An Introduction
“One purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case).”
Search fresh public links, source activity, and post angles for Hal Foster.
Fresh curated links around Hal Foster are collected here so marketers can spot useful updates and turn timely ideas into posts faster.
Recent items include:
Recent curated links from global sources. Generate one free draft from any story, then use SocialBu to schedule and refine your content calendar.
“One purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case).”
The traditional separation of contemporary art into distinct branches—visual art, design, architecture and digital culture—might still matter, he told Observer, but engaging with e...
“We associate burlap not with art but with use, indeed with waste.”
“All this is hard to sort out, and two more pieces on the right—a green blob beside a black one—only add to the puzzle.”
“Perhaps he is tubercular as well as blind. Certainly he is poor.”
These fairs, with their smaller scales, make space for emerging artists whose practices move between myth, technology, diaspora, infrastructure and material experimentation.
Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more.
How the shape-shifting artist radicalized art itself.
Our correspondent's irresponsibly subjective list of the fair's best art.
The artist's latest exhibition constructs a desolate, cinematic landscape in which the American Dream dissolves into illusion, only to reemerge via the seductive logic of A.I.
Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation.
This career-spanning exhibition in Venice was inspired by the role religion played in classical art history.
Artistic director Massimiliano Gioni has mounted an inaugural exhibition that can only be described as an epic of the modern human.
SpY's latest installation suspends metallic discs inside of an industrial space as part of Bright Festival. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member...
Wifredo Lam’s paintings spring from a unique synthesis of European modernism and Afro-Cuban consciousness.
Architect and artist Barry Ginder shares his love of fellow painters, from Gerhard Richter to Sean Scully, and more.
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.
At Alexander Gray Associates and the Whitney Biennial, the artist advances his decades-long inquiry into ornament, abstraction and intuition.
Steve McQueen presents a powerful ensemble of multimedia works that explore the boundaries of imagination, memory, space and time. The post Histories Connected appeared first on Ae...
The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife.
“If money was no object, which one would you take home?” This question, posed to me at a recent art auction, provoked a persistent thought in my mind about the mechanics of massive...
Rejecting the concept of “collectible design,” Benda, alongside Barry Friedman, built a global, intergenerational program that treats design as a serious artistic discipline.
“This is a river you can’t step in even once.”
Fotografiska Shanghai tracing the artist's practice, spanning two decades through over 100 works that explore visual resistance and bodily narrative. The post The Poetics of Desir...
Use SocialBu to discover ideas, generate post drafts, and schedule them across your social channels.