At Inverleith House 
Hal Foster
Richard Hamilton’s ‘Protest Pictures’ have turned the galleries of Inverleith House in Edinburgh into a time-machine.[*] News events from the last fifty years flash up in every room, from a drug bust and a student murder in the 1960s, through the Troubles in the 1970s and 1980s, to the Gulf debacles of the last two decades. In each instance Hamilton is concerned to capture the mediation of the event in order both to deconstruct its effects and to turn them to his own ends.
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Hal Foster, a co-editor of October, chairs the department of art and archaeology at Princeton.
Other articles by this contributor:
In Central Park · The Gates
Why all the hoopla? · Frank Gehry
At the Grand Palais · Richard Serra
At the Guggenheim · David Smith
Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy · Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Cultre by John Seabrook
At the Guggenheim · Pop Surrealism
In Venice · Hal Foster at the Biennale
It’s Modern but is it contemporary? · The Trouble with MoMA
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