Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Michel Foucault – Portrait With Flower Crown Mask Philosophy Mask Designed and Sold by isstgeschichte Michel Foucault – Portrait With Flower Crown: This is probably one of my favorite works that I have ever made. It’s one of the most important philosophy figures, decorated with a beautiful flower crown, making it a fantastic philosophy meme. …

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Peter Halley’s Heterotopia II explored the relationship between painting, architecture, and image LEILAH STONE • December 24, 2019, The Architect’s Newspaper Peter Halley’s Heterotopia II, a candy-colored shrine to geometric abstraction closed on December 20 at Greene Naftali gallery in Chelsea (Manhattan). The exhibition, which embodied the relationship between painting and architectural space, brought visitors into a disorienting, hyperreal world collaged out of …

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Lorenza Mezzapelle Making a case for research-based art, The Concordion, November 5, 2019 [Editor: Update 26 February 2026. Link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine] The Empty S(h)elf is on display at Artexte, at 2 Ste-Catherine St. E, Suite 301, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, until Jan. 25, 2020. The gallery is open …

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Enquiry from one of the readers of Foucault News. Does anybody know what the two large paintings right at the beginning of this interview are? 15-minute footage is of an interview that was conducted by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders in preparation for the debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, which was broadcasted on …

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