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First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?

Vince Carducci / 29 June 2020

Riffing off Marx's riff on Hegel on history, art historian and critic Hal Foster contemplates political culture and cultural politics in the age of Donald Trump in What Comes After Farce?

Culture/Visual Arts

The Basic Dilemma of the Artist, or, Art Criticism Is Impossible

PopMatters Staff / 21 January 2004

art theory

First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?

The Basic Dilemma of the Artist, or, Art Criticism Is Impossible

Lambrini Girls’ “God’s Country” Rejects PJ Harvey’s Melancholic England

It Ain’t Easy Being Green in Wicked’s Hollywood

Poster Children Discuss 1995’s Brilliant LP ‘Junior Citizen’ at 30

MoMA’s Film Restoration Fest To Serve and Project Eyes Bad Behavior

Trumpism and Contemporary Christian Music’s Civil War

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