Foucault News

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

Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …

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Multimedia artist feels free as he gets back to basics By Lin Qi, China Daily/Asia News Network Thursday, September 1, 2016 Art graduates are now increasingly opting to create installations, videos and other mixed-media pieces. But You Jin is different. The artist, who majored in multimedia art, is focusing on painting — a subject that …

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Andrew Russeth, Art Basel Hong Kong Announces Plans for Large-Scale ‘Encounters’ Section, Observer blog, 18 March 2013 […] – Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) will showcase a neon text installation by French artist Laurent Grasso (*1972). Over seven meters wide, Visibility is a Trap, 2012, is a direct reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of Panopticism …

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A.C. Lee, Postmodern Velázquez and a ‘Hip-Hop Nutcracker’, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s  essay on Velázquez’s  baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,”  he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that would bloom into postmodernism. That blossom continues to flower. “Las Meninas Renacen de Noche …

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JOURNÉES EUROPÉENNES DU PATRIMOINE 20 & 21 Septembre 2014 Hommage à Michel Foucault Exposition~Promenade Vendeuvre-du-Poitou « Le jardin du Philosophe » Vendeuvre du Poitou est situé dans le Haut Poitou, au nord de Poitiers, au milieu des vignes et des terres maraichères, « creusé dans les collines, entre les vallées de la Pallu et de …

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Alexa Lawrence, See 11 Heady Books Transformed into Ikebana Flower Displays Posted on Art News, 06/18/14 Camille Henrot channels Japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books The gracefully balanced flower arrangements of Camille Henrot’s installation “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers” (2012-2014) occupy the second …

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Foucault : la prison aujourd’hui 19-30 mars 2014 Lausanne télécharger la programme Editor update 26 August 2026. Links below updated to archived pages on the Wayback Machine Dix jours d’événements autour des représentations de la pièce de théâtre FOUCAULT 71 Voir aussi: L’INTOLÉRABLE HIER ET AUJOURD’HUI (Texte d’Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary, Le Courrier, 3 mars 2014) et …

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