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This week, the editors pair two pieces by Hal Foster: his 2012 essay on Artforum’s early years and a new appraisal of The Anti-Aesthetic at forty.“The notion of postmodernism was once a great stimulant to art and thought,” Hal Foster writes in Artforum’s September issue. “Today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past.” The critic’s reflections on the intellectual hothouse that produced The Anti-Aesthetic—edited in 1983 by Foster at the tender age of twenty-eight—make for rewarding reading alongside his cogent account of the preceding period, now enshrined ...

Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Renowned for giving his big band a break during concerts by shifting to a three-man jam session in the midst of a show, jazz icon Buddy Rich would let the piano and bass shine through during these performances. Although these three-man interludes were staples during many shows, there has … Continue reading

Giovanni Aloi and Michael Marder on vegetal entwinements.

Smith’s performance is conceived as a sequel to her 2015 piece, “That Which Is Not Me.”