Editorial

Notes on Metamodernism was founded in 2009 by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker. They were later joined by Nadine Fessler, Hila Schachar, Luke Turner and Alison Gibbons. Today, the site features contributions by over 30 writers from across the globe, documenting anything from art to politics, critical theory to television.

Beyond Postmodernism

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 …

Beyond Postmodernism Read More »

Chinese Translation Notes on Metamodernism

Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker’s initial article ‘Notes on Metamodernism’ has now been translated into Mandarin by Chen Houliang. It has been published in the Journal Foreign Theoretical Trends, no 11 (2012). You can download the article here.

The Stedelijk Museum in times of metamodernism

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 …

The Stedelijk Museum in times of metamodernism Read More »

How PoMo can you go?

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 …

How PoMo can you go? Read More »

Metamodernism goes geography

The University of Groningen, the Netherlands, will host the fourth international conference on emotional geographies next year. Its theme: affect and space in times of metamodernism. Among the keynote speakers are Rosi Braidotti and Nigel Thrift. We have posted the call integrally. You can find the link for applying below. Hope to see you there. …

Metamodernism goes geography Read More »