
End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty
They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the…
They arrive at my Salt Lake City apartment in the middle of the afternoon on the tenth of September, 2016, and we’re on the…
In this episode, Meghan O’Rourke, poet, author and editor of The Yale Review, speaks frankly about pursuing a creative and professional life with chronic…
Somewhere in the stratosphere between Ohio and New York, cumbersome bodies bumping against pockets of turbulence, my mind turned to the title of Lucie…
The late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings and performance art. Caroompas…
I sat in the last row of the bus, watching the scenery dissolve into dusk, each passing moment echoing the temporal experience I’d just…
Nona Faustine, who passed away this March, was magnificent—a valiant beacon of light in a world often cruel and dismissive of Black women’s histories…
In this episode, we feature Legacy Russell, the writer, curator, and Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, an artist-driven non-profit space in…
Systems call to mind the grandiose, sweeping, and entrenched, for better or worse. Systems of belief, systems theory, the prison system … By comparison,…
For the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over an image from a single-channel video by interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In Baño Sagrado…
Momus and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics have co-published the spring edition of Post/doc, the VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive,…
Momus and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics have co-published the spring edition of Post/doc, the VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive,…
Every time I visit Delhi from Colombo, which has been my primary home for three decades, I fight sensory overwhelm caused by the fragility…
Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach,…
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…
“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…
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…