Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India
This past winter was a tumultuous one for India. Braving police brutality and state repression, protests raged against draconian anti-Muslim legislation and a forthcoming…
Ebony L. Haynes on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 22
For episode 22, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Ebony L. Haynes, a gallerist, curator, and writer. Haynes is the Director of Martos Gallery in…
This Valley is Filling with the Blood of Ghosts: On the Work of Scott Daniel Williams
Monuments are not inert. Like removing a scab on an infected wound, the defacement or removal of monuments can cause a rupture – in…
Black Lives Matter: Momus’s Commitment to the Movement Against Racial Inequality
Dear Readers, This has been a time of strife, uncertainty, and trauma for many. Before we can begin to celebrate the changes that emerge…
Coco Fusco on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 21
For episode 21, Sky Goodden spoke with Coco Fusco, the legendary Cuban-American critic, artist, educator, and art historian. Speaking from the center of…
The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil
One likely constant amid the uncertain reality of lockdown is that your screen time has probably gone up. While we are unable to access…
Artists in Isolation: Lynne Cohen and the Fullness of Empty Space
There’s one image of a bed dressed in bleached sheets sanitized to a crisp, with a thin, folded blanket at the foot, in an…
Listening to Jeanne Randolph
I have been lucky enough to sit in a dark room listening to Jeanne Randolph talk. I should mention that I say this very…
Episode 20: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Daniel Blanga Gubbay
For this episode, still circling the question “what’s changed, and what should?”, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Brussels-based curator Daniel Blanga Gubbay, the artistic co-director…
Artists in Isolation: Day’s End
“I had no faith in any kind of permission.” So he cut off the lock and replaced it with his own, then went to…
Cyclical Gods: Reliving Pandemic
I arrived at the opening of Sanctuary, artist Chen Dongfan’s first institutional exhibition in New York City, overcome with a profound sense of disorientation….
Artists in Isolation: Nadège Grebmeier Forget’s “Some Kind of Game”
Live on Facebook from the artist’s home-studio on a March afternoon, Nadège Grebmeier Forget disgorged an urgent, spontaneous, and cathectic release of maximalist body…
Episode 19: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Johanna Fateman
For this episode, Sky Goodden spoke with art writer and musician Johanna Fateman, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, a contributing editor…
Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs
“We are not where we think we are,” Dr. Fauci warned, before we all woke up to an altered time. In this new reality,…
Artists in Isolation: Instagram, Leave Us to Our Darkness
Sometime that feels pretty recent, the internet turned into an actual talent show. Social media always felt performative, and now, with TikTok ascendant and…
Episode 18: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Alessandro Bava
Momus: The Podcast launched Season 3 with the question “what’s changed – and what should?”, which we continue with Alessandro Bava, an architect and…