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…
Artists in Isolation: Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension”
In 2007 Wafaa Bilal locked himself inside a Chicago gallery. He lived there alone for a month, using a webcam to broadcast around the…
The Invention of the Humane: Ken Lum’s Collected Writings
I was planning to attend the Art Metropole launch of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, Ken Lum’s book of his selected…
Episode 17: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Eleanor Nairne
Momus: The Podcast launches Season 3 with the question “what’s changed – and what should?” with curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. This…
Artists in Isolation: Adad Hannah’s Tableaux Vivants
A figure stands pinned in place. He was fighting. Shadowboxing, maybe. Now he’s halted and just breathing and waiting and watching, nervously. Late-frost synthesizers…
Writing About Indigenous Art with Critical Care
With arms crossed, a Métis curator contemplates Kent Monkman’s The Scream (2017) at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The history painting dramatizes Canada’s seizure of First Nations,…
The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA
Four men came to our house because they were interested in architecture. They knew someone who knew our landlord, which is how they got…