Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

Victoria & Albert Museum, London 24 September 2011 – 8 January 2012 Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court Admission charge will apply The ideas of Postmodernism emerged first in architecture. While the Modernist slogan had been ‘less is more’, architects like Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi insisted that ‘less is a bore’. … Continue reading →

Liquid Sky: Interview with Slava Tsukerman

Wonderful interview with Slava Tsukerman by Brigitte Nicole from Opening Ceremony about Tsukerman’s brilliant 1982 post-punk new-wave movie Liquid Sky. One of my all-time favorite movies, it addresses everything from gender to class issues as well as ideas of the alienation/other and stereotypes. http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=653 Continue reading →