We all have a rough idea of what being modern requires. Whether it's a traffic system, a business plan, the rules of cricket, your kitchen appliances or your wardrobe. To modernise something is to bring it up to date, to make it better by making it new, contemporary and current. Yet by the 1980s, the modern was looking old hat and stubbornly trad rather than rad; and those hip to cultural fashion and the latest thing were speaking about the 'postmodern'. Does it make sense to be 'after the modern'? How can how could you be newer than the new, and more up to date than the present?
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Monday July 1, Realism, Juliana Engberg
Monday July 8, Impressionism, Juliana Engberg
Wednesday July 17, Surrealism, Juliana Engberg
Wednesday July 24, Abstract Expressionism, Anthony White
Wednesday July 31, Minimalism, Callum Morton
Wednesday August 21, Postmodernism, Edward Colless
Wednesday August 28, Installation-ism, Callum Morton
Wednesday September 4, Catastrophism, Edward Colless
Monday September 30, Now-ism, Juliana Engberg
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