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…
Tiana Reid
Momus: The Podcast’s Season 07 finale features Tiana Reid, a Toronto-based critic and assistant professor of English at York University. Reid is a former…
The Wish in Yong Soon Min’s KISSSSS
“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss…
Prescient About Still-Active Threats, Marisol Is Right on Time
Near the end of the definitive, long-overdue survey of the artist Marisol at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, after a parade of totemic sculptural…
Arenas of Freedom
“Time is more than a container; time participates.” —Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind I often enter retrospectives with a certain girding of the…
Claudia La Rocco
Esteemed critic and writer Claudia La Rocco speaks to Lauren Wetmore about being a “dance partisan” and how “language can nail things down in…