Older generations have something to say about every aspect of Millennials’ lives, and romantic relationships are no exception. “The paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay,” announces an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times published last December. Taking up a report released by Child Trends, a Washington-based research group, Charles M. Blow suggests, “It turns out that everything is the opposite of what I remember. Under the old model, you dated a few times and, if you really liked the person, you might consider having sex. Under the new model, you hook up a few times and, if you really like the person, you might consider going on a date.” Blow isn’t quite sounding the alarm, to his credit. Neither is Naomi Schaefer Riley, writing in the Wall Street Journal in late November of last year. Faced with statistics supposedly showing that a greater percentage of people under age thirty now commit marital infidelity than even fifteen years ago, she suggests that such factors as the higher median age at which young people get married, habits carried over from premarital romantic relationships, and habits carried over from intense non-romantic relationships (such as “friends with benefits”) as possible causes of this phenomenon.

The question this begs, of course, is not necessarily whether these authors are correct. More interesting for our purposes is whether these social phenomena appear anywhere in the art made by artists under age thirty-three. Who are the artists making work that engages these topics? Romantic relationships are fairly fundamental to how most young people experience the world, and yet it seems difficult to name artists explicitly concerned with the topic. Examples—with links, if you have them—would be appreciated in the comments section below.