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 …
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Excerpt of interview of Timotheus Vermeulen about Metamodernism from Tank Magazine: Cher Potter: You and Robin never took to the idea of a manifesto. However, the artist Luke Turner has …
Beasts of the Southern Wild (co-written by Ben Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, directed by Ben Zeitlin), came out of nowhere and was nominated in several categories in the 2012 Academy Awards, including the …
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. — Arthur Miller
These buildings and scenes, collected in a Reddit group called “Accidental Wes Anderson” see the filmmaker’s aesthetic at play in all of them. They can be seen as embodying metamodern qualities: Unabashedly …
