The renowned arts and culture magazine TANK Magazine has published an interview with Notes on metamodernism co-founder Timotheus Vermeulen. In the interview, Vermeulen discusses the meaning of the term metamodernism, the effects of the geopolitical and financial crises, generational differences and developments in the arts. Timotheus Vermeulen, with fellow cultural theorist Robin van den Akker, introduced …
Frequent Notes on Metamodernism contributor James MacDowell recently published his second academic essay on the quirky sensibility. His article in The New Review of Film and Television Studies situates Wes Anderson within the ‘quirky’ sensibility of recent American indie cinema, a category encompassing a range of films and filmmakers that emerged in Indiewood during the 1990s …
TIME, they are a changing. After Newt Gingrich in 1995, GW Bush in 2000, and Bennie Bernanke in 2009, the TIME person of the year 2011 is… The Protester. As Kurt Andersen writes in his accompanying analysis: Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or …
The latest issue of MONU (Magazine ON Urbanism) features a series of essays dealing with the post-ideological condition of contemporary cities. Besides an interview with Wouter Vanstiphout and essays by, amongst others, Thomas Ruff, Brendan M. Lee, Michael Hirschbichler, MONU #15 also includes an new article by NoM founders Robin den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen. …
From the 15th of November 2011 to the 15th of January 2012, the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York will host a small group exhibition dedicated to metamodernism: No more modern: Notes on metamodernism. The exhibition, curated by Jake Yuzna with the assistance of Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, includes …
Regular Notes on metamodernism contributor James MacDowell recently published an essay on Quirky and metamodernism in the newly revamped academic film journal Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. You can read his article in full here.
