Season 4 Episode 1: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…
Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica
Pacifico Silano’s practice is based in appropriating and rephotographing the imagery in gay erotica magazines published between 1969 and the late 1980s. In less-adept…
An Insipid Blame Game: Tony Cokes and the Monotony of Art About Trump
Over the past four decades, Tony Cokes has perfected the art of the social justice slideshow. His video essays pair appropriated text with corporate…
The Untenability of the Unethical Museum
The last time I visited a museum was in early March, when I saw artist Tishan Hsu’s survey at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles….
The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe
Walter Scott faces a dilemma that has confronted many multi-disciplinary artists, especially those who work in both contemporary art and more mass-cultural fields: being…
Waiting to Return to the Places We Were Going: Mapping Robin Cameron’s “Memory Palace”
Robin Cameron’s exhibition Memory Palace at Franz Kaka sits on the second floor. The stairs to the second floor are just inside the glass…
Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing
There’s been much talk of Ambera Wellmann’s show Logic of Ghosts at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, but not much talk of her paintings. For in filling…
Dora García Has Many Names: The Artist on Three Works Across a Pandemic
It’s become such a common sight, these past seasons, to visit someone over Skype and watch their form swim into view before a bookshelf….
“Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit'”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”
Legacy Russell doesn’t do things IRL. Throughout her writing, you’ll find instead the term “AFK” (Away From Keyboard). As the mobile internet became ubiquitous in…
In the Studio with Didier William: “The Last Six Months Have Deeply Affected my Practice. I Came Back to the Body”
I met Didier William in the fall of 2018, when he came to Pratt Institute to critique our undergraduate students. Didier and I talked…
“As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge
When I reached out to the directors of the “virtually-rooted” Dark Study, a recently-launched free experimental art school, I had envisioned writing a piece…
Lifesaving and Abolitionism: Shifting the Frame on Prison Art
In March 2008, Ojore Lutalo received official denial of his request for release from solitary confinement at Trenton State Prison. In its appraisal of…
Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill
I first met Vanessa through mutual friends on the streets of New York City’s Chinatown. I felt connected to the neighborhood given that, pre-pandemic,…
Chance Elements: On Wayne Ngan (1937-2020)
Six years ago, while browsing in Nanaimo, British Columbia’s Value Village, a black vase with gold highlights caught my attention from across two aisles….
The White Pube on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 24
In the final episode of Season 3, which has been devoted to the question of “what’s changed, and what should?”, Sky Goodden speaks to…
“A Planetary Expenditure”: An Interview with Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance
The work of Ensayos – a strategically covert group of artists, poets, historians, biologists, lawyers, sociologists, ecologists, activists, policymakers, and local community members, around…