{"id":1602,"date":"2009-05-17T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/made-by-generation-why\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T19:19:09","slug":"made-by-generation-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/17\/made-by-generation-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Made By Generation Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/artsandliving\/museums\/050809.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"headline1\" style=\"font: normal normal bold 18px\/normal arial\">Younger Than Jesus&#8217;: Made by Generation Why<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial; line-height: 15px; color: #666666; font-size: 11px\">BY BLAKE GOPNIK\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/arcangel.jpg\" alt=\"arcangel.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>NEW YORK &#8212; It&#8217;s said that new art reflects new times. If that&#8217;s true, what could be a better mirror on our troubled days than a huge survey of the latest art by the latest crop of artists? You couldn&#8217;t ask for a more thorough pulse-taking than you get in &#8220;Younger Than Jesus,&#8221; the show now filling all four floors of the New Museum&#8217;s stylish home on the Bowery. It presents 124 works by 50 artists, all 33 or younger, from 25 countries, selected from a 500-name shortlist submitted by an international panel of experts. It&#8217;s the first in a planned series of triennials the museum calls &#8220;The Generational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the generation in &#8220;Younger Than Jesus&#8221; are often known as the millennials, and there&#8217;s something truly end-of-days about the art that represents them in this show. The survey&#8217;s title is clearly tongue-in-cheek, but it also feels like it&#8217;s getting at something: There is a sense of waiting, of stasis, of breath-holding that reminds me of the way things are supposed to have felt in Judea in A.D. 27 &#8212; in the moment, that is, just before a new Messiah came in view to sort things out.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/artsandliving\/museums\/050809.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Younger Than Jesus&#8217;: Made by Generation Why BY BLAKE GOPNIK\u00a0 NEW YORK &#8212; It&#8217;s said that new art reflects new times. If that&#8217;s true, what could be a better mirror on our troubled days than a huge survey of the latest art by the latest crop of artists? You couldn&#8217;t ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}