These interviews have shaped our understanding of the project at hand. Launched in July 2020, November has thus far been a series of interviews with practitioners across art, architecture, philosophy, and critical theory. The interview was conducted in November 2020, just before Joe Biden was declared the projected winner of the presidency. In the end, we ended up speaking about the nature of writing and art criticism more than anything-what criticism is, why one does it, how to keep it alive. As well, Foster’s role in shaping the discourse of a specifically late-twentieth-century American art world in his work with the journal October and elsewhere made him a necessary interlocutor for November, a New York-based publication staffed by five American editors. I wanted to speak to Foster because of his dedication to understanding not only the history of art’s relationship to the contemporary, but to tracking its rocky relationship to politics. His most recent book, What Comes After Farce? (2019), is available from Verso Books. Foster is best known for his role in shaping a postmodern theory of art. Hal Foster is an American art critic and art historian.
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