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We Are Gathered Here to Grieve: Salvaging, Mourning, and ‘Cargo Cult Formalism’ in New York

As New York galleries reopened after the first wave of lockdowns, I noticed a trend across a handful of exhibitions that channeled the alienation…

Grieving in L.A.

My first trip to Los Angeles started ten days after an election that diminished our assurance in something like a common good. I booked…

“Where Does Art Get To Live?”: A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke

On a perfect spring day in late May, I found myself huddled in a crowded gallery for an artist talk, my head leaning forward,…

Claire Morgan’s “Dead Weight” in Paris

A pale woman clutches a dead fox to her bosom, her hold on its lifeless pelt somewhere between a cuddle and a throttle. Her…

A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics

Sheila Heti’s most recent novel, Pure Colour, is a dream-like, funny, soulful, hard-to-wrangle meditation on what it means to live as someone else’s creation,…

Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros

Amid a surging wave of political activism and newly liberated energies, Carolee Schneemann wrote, in 1968, that “perception should lead to action.” Schneemann suspected…

Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

The UK-based and Toronto-born Athena Papadopoulos created the sculptures for her recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), her first institutional…

“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden

Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…

Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

Anna Mayer’s first solo exhibition in Houston, Forms of Inheritance, opens with a photographic mural printed on cotton canvas and splayed across a wall…

See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind

In Matthew Wong’s oil painting See You On the Other Side (2019), a figure in blue stands at the edge of a frozen landscape…