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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle
well... i had the good fortune to share pizza, soda and several hours of conversation with hal foster and six other graduate students last week, and he says "i'm not really sure what's going on in the art world right now... and i'm not sure anyone else is either."
that evening he proceeded to give a lecture on the revival of modernist approaches to architecture (which he calls a Second Modernity) , basically rehashing what terence riley wrote ten years ago in "Light Architecture," when this new modernist stuff started getting built by people like peter zumthor. for q&a he said he'd field questions on any topic - not just the lecture - but it came across like he didn't want to talk about the paper he'd just delivered. i was a little underwhelmed.
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That's awesome. He's smart to not comment of the art world as of now as a new "revolution" is occurring in continental philosophy that I am sure every art author is looking at with anticipation. However, architecture is definitely the first thing I would think would return to modernism/structuralism since that was really the first modern thought that was relevant directly to them. Definitely better than postmodern architecture, if it is what I think it is. Good on them to stick with what they are sure looks good despite "historical relevance."