Staying to the End: Gossip, Banter, and Loss in Peter Hujar’s Friendships
The year is 1974, and a pack of cigarettes costs 56 cents in New York. Photographer Peter Hujar spends 89 cents on an Oscar…
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In Search of True Collectivity: Infrastructure and Intent at the Kochi-Muziri Biennale
Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to decentralize authority. Yet a change in structure…
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Art Time / Life Time: On Tehching Hsieh’s Thirteen Year Plan
This is the second of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027….
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Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece
This is the first of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027. Find…
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Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…
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Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work
Louise Nevelson and I are twins, separated at birth by almost one hundred years—or maybe we’re friends, or she’s my godparent: a guiding light,…
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Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should…
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Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small…
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What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
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Jeffrey Gibson Saves America
Premiering at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 before opening this summer at the Broad in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition the space…
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