Hal Foster

Oct 1, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Hal Foster

Richard Serra, who died in March of this year at the age of eighty-five, sought out the resistance of other voices, in part to clarify his own. The composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich performed that role early on, as did the artist Robert Smithson. Critics and curators like Rosalind Krauss, David Sylvester and Kirk Varnedoe stepped up later, and for six decades his wife Clara Serra was his essential interlocutor.

Jun 26, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Hal Foster

Born​ into a progressive family in Königsberg in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz was encouraged by her father, a stonemason and an early member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), to study art – a rare path for a young woman from a working family and a difficult one given that most academies were restricted to men.

May 29, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Mark Polizzotti |Hal Foster

Although​ André Breton wasn’t the first to use the term ‘surrealism’, he made it his own with his first Manifesto in 1924. There he defined the fledgling movement as a ‘quest’ to discover ‘the marvellous’ in the mundane and to work towards the ‘future resolution’ of dreaming and waking. While this lofty goal was new enough, the means applied to it, such as playful operations of chance and sudden collisions of disparate words or images, were prepared by Dada.

Oct 23, 2023 | ankylosingspondylitisnews.com | Margarida Maia |Hal Foster |Patricia Inacio |Jemma Newman

Children with one or more older siblings are up to 34% as likely as those who don’t have older siblings to develop ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a large Swedish study found. Having a tonsillectomy, a surgery to remove the tonsils when they repeatedly become infected before age 16, increased the odds of developing AS by 36%. “While genetic predisposition is the leading cause of the disease, [early life] environmental factors are also thought to have a role,” according to a press release.

Sep 27, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Jonathan Crary |Hal Foster

Art​ history was shaken in the 1970s and 1980s, and the epicentre was 19th-century art. Emboldened by the resurgent Marxism and feminism of the 1960s, engaged scholars including T.J. Clark, Thomas Crow, Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock asked difficult questions about class, audience, gender and sexuality, questions that were soon rumbling through other fields as well. Yet disruptive though these inquiries were, they mostly continued to insist on the centrality of the French avant-garde.