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 …
The first line of a press release by Am Nuden Da directs the reader as to how to approach the text that follows. The preamble to an exhibition of some form, the context of which we are presumably about to be enlightened, it invites us to engage “(Romantically)”. The words that follow might, one assumes, conform …
The 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, beginning the last week of september, will run a cinematic program on metamodernism. Curated by Jake Yuzna, No More Modern: Notes on Metamodernism pairs recent video works by Mariechen Danz, Benjamin Martin, Sharyar Nashat and Pilvi Takala with free copies of Vermeulen & Van den Akker’s essay Notes on Metamodernism. …
For decades, the luxury goods industry represented one of the market’s strongholds. In 2006, Egon Zhender International estimated the global luxury goods sector a $170 billion business. Similarly Kwak and Yoffie indexed the branch with a growth rate of about 6% per year.[i] Following Luzzini and Ronchi we might even speak of demographic shifts, with …
It’s twenty years since the first issue of Frieze. To celebrate this milestone, the september issue of the magazine looks back at two decades of art, art criticism and essayism – and occasionally peaks into the (un)foreseeable future. Along with Simon Critchley and Nina Power, our very own Timotheus Vermeulen reviewed the philosophical debates that have come …
David Shields’ Reality Hunger is subtitled “A Manifesto.” The whole title is: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. When was the last time you saw that sitting on a bookshelf–that word, “manifesto”? When was the last time you wrote one, or wished somebody else would, or waved one in somebody’s face and said, “Look, here’s how it’s …
