The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum, New York, NY | April 8 - July 5, 2009

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

"The Generational: Younger Than Jesus"
April 8 - June 5, 2009

For Younger Than Jesus, the first edition of The Generational, the New Museums new signature triennial, fifty artists from twenty-five countries will be presented. The only exhibition of its kind in the United States, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus will offer a rich, intricate, multidisciplinary exploration of the work being produced by a new generation of artists born after 1976. Known to demographers, marketers, sociologists, and pundits variously as the Millennials, Generation Y, iGeneration, and Generation Me, this age group has yet to be described in any way beyond their habits of consumption. Younger Than Jesus will begin to examine the visual culture this generation has created to date.

http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/411

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[JamesBurgerPhoto]

I'm 34 but began my current career at 32, so for me to think I'll ever pass the point of emergence would be fatalist. I strive to produce new and different work, like my recent stop-motion video, "intro-duck-tion," but I'll always let the audience decide whether what I make is or isnt art.

[keithwdc]

I'm over 40. Fact is, things are different in the younger generation. Younger people are also more prone to be energetic and take risks. Generations are different. People are different. Differences are invigorating. I'm all for seeing what the under 33 come up with. It's not as if I can't find the over 33 somewhere else; they have something to say, too. Just not right here right now. :)

[lizzyyo666]

It has nothing to do with being politically correct. It has to do with the lack of focus and support for those over 35. That's it! SImple. Keep having shows for the young artists-- it's great, no problem with that. Maybe the "ageism" comment from days ago is a knee jerk reaction to un-original curration. Forty over 40? You've inspired me to do this myself. Look for that show at your local Senior Center! OLD IN '09!!!!

[artistkeith3]

Yes, there are thousands of people who were employed as graphic artists (to earn a living) and later moved into fine arts after the age of 40, an entire bracket of people skipped over or negated in favor of the under-30 "NEW" artists simply because of their age and the appeal of fresh young faces.  Youth sells, for some odd reason, while true experience and talent gets relegated to some dark shelf. Ah, culture.

[alternateash]

I think the chances for him are the same as the chances for anybody else.. maybe not for this particular show, but for something. Jenny Holtzer, though she emerged at 27, is 59 this year that she's having the big Whitney show. There's a large aging population with the baby boomers starting to retire, and things like

"Cougars" (as a concept) are getting mass recognition. I suggest telling your friend to bring some of his work to galleries that are in a similar vein, and best of luck!

[alternateash]

... so maybe twenty years later there could be a Younger Than Richard Brautigan (44) or Younger Than Moses (120) show at the still-New Museum.

So I don't think this show qualifies as ageist at all.

Just like a show celebrating female artists or black artists, or even say, anglo-saxon artists isn't necessarily sexist or racist.

Try not to let your urge for political correctness fog the realities that are present.

[alternateash]

Also, people under 33 have wholly new elements of language, created by their generation, that have traveled up the age ladder to common usage (eg. WTF, OMG, BRB...). We've grown up with MTV, the accelerated growth of technology, and social and economic globalization. We're more optimistic than the Gen Xers before us. Of course the post-Millenials/9-11/internet-­for-granted generation will have an entirely different take on things...

[lizzyyo666]

Not hating, just statin'! Thanks for the opportunity to speak on it. . .

[lizzyyo666]

Some of the most amazing art I have seen recently was by an artist who had never done any visual art until taking a graphic novel illustration class, and his stuff was AMAZING. But for a 39 year old guy with no ties to the art world, what are the chances for HIM to have exposure? Hopefully this dialogue will worm its way into the ears of gallery currators and they will come up with something more original than a "40 under 40" or younger than jesus, or whatnot.