Princeton University

Professor Foster teaches lecture and seminar courses in modernist and contemporary art and theory; he also teaches the graduate proseminar in methodology. In addition, he works with the programs of Media and Modernity and European Cultural Studies as well as with the School of Architecture. Recent publications include Art Since 1900 (2005), a textbook on 20th-century art; Prosthetic Gods (2004), concerning the relation between modernism and psychoanalysis; and Design and Crime (2002), on problems in contemporary art, architecture, and design. He is presently at work on a book on Pop. He continues to write regularly for October, Artforum, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Left Review.

• “Global Style,” London Review of Books, 20 September 2007; “Eye-Architecture,” Artforum, February 2007
• “New Fields of Architecture” (Zaha Hadid), Artforum, September 2006; “Go, Modernity” (Norman Foster), London Review of Books, 22 June 2006
• “At the Guggenheim: David Smith,” London Review of Books, 9 March 2006; “Blind Spots,” Artforum, March 2006
• “The Bauhaus Idea in America” in Achim Borchardt, ed., Albers & Moholy-Nagy (Tate Modern/Whitney Museum, March 2006)
• “An Exchange with Retort on ‘Afflicted Powers’,” October 115, Winter 2006; “Richard Serra in Conversation with Hal Foster,” The Matter of Time (Guggenheim Bilbao, Winter 2006).