The American art magazine Art Pulse has just published an interesting article by the art historian Stephen Knudsen on metamodernism and painting, in particular the work of Bo Bartlett. We have posted an excerpt below. You can read the whole article here. School of the Americas has postmodern reflection on a par with the likes of …
Timotheus Vermeulen, one of NoM’s founding editors, has just published a piece in Frieze discussing the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum in times of metamodernism. He writes: In the cultural industries things have changed considerably as well. The cultural logic of Postmodernism has been displaced by another sensibility: metamodernism (of course, this is a global …
Kim Levin just published an article in ARTnews describing the end of postmodernism and the emergence of metamodernism. She writes: In the past couple of years, there’s been a new post- Postmodern movement lurking in Europe: Metamodernism. It features an agenda that involves art that is impermanent, incremental, provisional, and idiosyncratic, as well as site-specific …
Metropolis M just published an interview with Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker in which they speak about the present and future of metamodernism. You can buy the magazine here. Internationally, their theory is finding ample response, from the columns of the British art magazine frieze, for example, but not much has been written about …
Q. Cultuurfilosofen Robin van den Akker en Timotheus Vermeulen beweren dat de kunstperiode metamodernisme is aangebroken. (Simplistisch gezegd: een periode waarin de mens, gevoed door onvrede, streeft naar iets anders maar niet precies weet waarnaar.) Zou u uw eigen werk metamodern kunnen noemen? – Vincent Kolenbrander, Groningen A. Find Grunberg’s (somewhat hilarious) answer here.
A.R. Warwick just published an analysis of Terry Gilliam’s Tideland as metamodern film in Art Writ. Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film Tideland centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose, and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas. With both veiled and obvious allusions to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the story focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life …
