Recently I volunteered at the Seattle Art Fair, an annual event that brings together hundreds of galleries and artists to display their work in a sprawling conference area inhabiting …
I recently gave a talk “Punk Rock for Sissies: The Return of Affect in Early 21st Century American Indie Rock” at the AHRC Metamodernism conference at Radboud University in …
“Eternal Employment” — brainchild of Swedish artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby, is set to take place inside a Gothenburg train station, with the backing of the Swedish Transport …
We are generally very careful to avoid identifying individual humans as “being” metamodern. A person is far too complex to be reduced to one epistemic essence. The same goes …
We’ve written previously that Joss Whedon is one of the chief purveyors in popular culture of a metamodern sensibility, and that it may not be an exaggeration to say …
It’s kind of nuts that in the five years since we started blogging on metamodernism, we haven’t yet written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a seminal metamodern cultural …
Here’s one that we want to call metamodern, and yet are challenged to explain why it is metamodern. David Byrne is a guest participant in this Choir! Choir! Choir! performance of David Bowie’s ““Heroes”.” What Choir! Choir! Choir! does …
Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird won the 2017 Golden Globe Awards for Best Comedy/Musical and Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan). This may be the first film that treats the transition from postmodernism …
A note from Sufjan Stevens Friends, I wrote a song for Tonya Harding. It’s not at all related to the new biopic (I sent it to the music supervisors but they …
In our sibling publication Artocratic’s latest interview, married Ukrainian art team, Alexander and Alexandra Krolikowski discuss metamodernism, life-as-art, post-Soviet Ukraine, eloping, their love for Wes Anderson’s films, the revival …
