Meghan O’Rourke
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…
Improvising at the Edge of the World: Joan Jonas at the Gund
Somewhere in the stratosphere between Ohio and New York, cumbersome bodies bumping against pockets of turbulence, my mind turned to the title of Lucie…
A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas
The late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings and performance art. Caroompas…
The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll
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…
To Ensure the Record Can Never Be Whitewashed: Honoring Nona Faustine
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…
Legacy Russell
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…
The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems
Systems call to mind the grandiose, sweeping, and entrenched, for better or worse. Systems of belief, systems theory, the prison system … By comparison,…
We Are the Same Thing: The Sutured Selves of María Magdalena Campos-Pons
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…
Havensong (after and for heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Diana SeoHyung)
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,…
가는 길: Decision to Leave / On Leaving / Leaving
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,…
On Seher Shah, Expanding Home, and Listening to Delhi
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
Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach,…
Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance
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…
Intimacies Concealed and Performed: Katayoon Yousefbigloo and A Maior at Western Front
“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…
For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism
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…
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…