Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to decentralize authority. Yet a change in structure…
Pat Oleszko may be funny, but she isn’t joking. For nearly sixty years, Oleszko—a performance artist and sculptor who describes herself as an artist…
In this episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Line Ajan, a Franco-Syrian curator and translator and member of the editorial, artistic,…
Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols of…
This is the second of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027….
This is the first of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027. Find…
Aaron Morse’s tall heavens evoke Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting Sky Above Clouds IV (1965); the big-sky country of the American West; and the empyrean orange,…
Jeneen Frei Njootli joins this episode of Momus: The Podcast from their ancestral homelands in Old Crow, Yukon, a Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation community…
A mutual excitement is shared between two people who have encountered a Shannon Garden-Smith work. Vibrant carpets of sand, featuring marbled or herringbone designs,…
Of the five figures depicted in Pablo Picasso’s enduringly outrageous Las Chicas de Avignon (the title he supposedly preferred over Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907),…
Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…
Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, movements she has assiduously critiqued ever…
Season 9 of Momus: The Podcast launches with Luther Konadu, an artist and publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Reading from an influential book in…
There is a quality of lore around Jana Sterbak. Alongside her temperamental performances and pyrotechnic affinities, she is the artist of burning crowns, interred…
“During one of those sleepless nights, the thought crosses my mind that pregnancy happens to you, like dreams.” —Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra: An Essay…
A few miles outside of Santa Fe is a former foundry turned gallery space known as Finquita. In the main building, David Horvitz’s installation…
