Fail BetterBy: Hal Foster From the distinguished art critic and historian, vital essays on key artists and critics, revealing how they redefined art and criticism over the last six decades. Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present, Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past. In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose