On Seher Shah, Expanding Home, and Listening to Delhi
Every time I visit Delhi from Colombo, which has been my primary home for three decades, I fight sensory overwhelm—vehicles honking, the smell of…
Nizan Shaked
Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at UC Long Beach, and most…
Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance
Entering the main gallery at UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences, visitors are confronted by a massive fallen tree made of…
Intimacies Concealed and Performed: Katayoon Yousefbigloo and A Maior at Western Front
“A pendant hangs, an amulet works,” claims Fawn, a character in curator Kiel Torres’s script and accompanying text for the exhibition Wishing on My…
For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism
Sometimes the photographer Robert Andy Coombs operates his camera’s shutter with his mouth. Sometimes, he plays on the much-loved trope of self-portraiture, keeping the…
Remembering Kelly Mark
The artist Kelly Mark, prolific and beloved, left us on February 21, 2025. In spending time with her art these past weeks, I have…
As Flight or Escape: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
Ralph Lemon has described choreography as “a daily event appropriate to uncontrolled circumstances.” If the traditional role of the choreographer is to determine the…
Ajay Kurian
Season 8 of Momus: The Podcast launches with Ajay Kurian, an artist, critic, and co-founder of New Crits, a platform for artist mentorship. Kurian…
The Boy in the Bathroom: Tom Burr’s Torrington Project
It was with a frisson of anticipatory delight that I crossed the threshold of Tom Burr’s warehouse in Connecticut, two hours northeast of New…
A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley
The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a mall….
Lineage and Light: Rose Marie Cromwell’s “A Geological Survey”
In what ways is a mother like a tree? A mother—a caregiver, really, because lineages are built not merely by blood and biology but…
On Weather and the Archive: Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Tony Cruz Pabón
For five months I lived with open windows in a suburb of San Juan, air ventilating through my apartment on days of both intense…
Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
Maintenance I: Role Change, 1970 I give myself a haircut using the video system as a mirror. It is completely private, no one in…
Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto
What was the problem? I didn’t know and nobody told me and what could I do or say, anyway? Yes, I did know…
When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel
In late June 2024, a couple of weeks before Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and Kamala Harris launched her campaign for president,…
“You Took, Took, Took”: Alanis Obomsawin’s Work is Never Finished
In 1969, the young Abenaki singer and activist Alanis Obomsawin, newly hired as a consultant at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), took…