Last spring, “Younger Than Jesus” artist Tris Vonna-Michell “rebuilt Detroit” on the fifth floor of Kunst Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. In this video, he discusses the project.
To read critic Martin Herbert’s consideration of Vonna-Michell’s practice, published in the January 2009 issue of Artforum, click here.
The New Museum's first triennial exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, presents work by fifty artists under the age of thirty-three. On view April 8 - July 5, 2009. Learn more >
This blog features related articles, multimedia, and interviews about this Millennial generation.
Email ytj@newmuseum.org
“The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” is made possible by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Major support is provided by the Friends of the Generational, co-chaired by Maja Hoffmann and Dakis Joannou; Steering Committee Members Lonti Ebers and J. Bruce Flatt, Lorinda Ash Ezersky and Peter Ezersky, Ken Kuchin, and Randy Slifka; and Friends Shelley Fox Aarons and Phil Aarons, Hilary and Peter Hatch, Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Lisa Schiff.
Additional significant support is made possible by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund, Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Fund, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Special thanks also to the New Museum’s Leadership Council: Cesar Cervantes, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg, Maria and João Oliveira-Rendeiro, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Ellen and Michael Ringier, and Pamela and Arthur Sanders.
Support for artist travel and participation provided, in part, by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway.
Support for the accompanying publications is made possible by the J. McSweeney and G. Mills Publications Fund at the New Museum.
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