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Momus is an international online art publication and podcast that stresses “a return to art criticism.” In our first six years, Momus has been committed to reading our cultural text more deeply, and working with writers responding to a discordant, sped-up moment with slow looking and brave positioning. We regularly publish emerging writers and editors, and find our shifting mandate turning around the future criterion of art criticism, and its multiplicity. Momus has attracted a wide readership over its first six years, and was shortlisted twice for the International Award for Art Criticism in 2016. Momus produces a podcast, named one of the top-ten art podcasts by The New York Times in March 2020, now in its fourth season. We also published a first print anthology, "Momus: A Return to Art Criticism Vol. 1 (2014-17)," in 2017. The Momus Emerging Critics Residency began in August 2019, in collaboration with Concordia University, and with the support of former US Ambassador to Canada Bruce and Vicki Heyman. Residencies are now held twice annually with various institutional partners, including OCAD University and University of Chicago. Check for scheduled 2021 residencies and application deadlines in early spring 2021.

Features, Podcast• January 8, 2021

Season 4, Episode 3: Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove”

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“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April…

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Uncategorized• January 8, 2021

Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove” – Season 4, Episode 3

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“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April…

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Features, Podcast• December 21, 2020

Season 4 Episode 2: Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait”

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“Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism.” This has been critic Nikki Columbus’s refrain through the past season, issuing…

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Uncategorized• December 20, 2020

Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait” – Season 4, Episode 2

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“Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism.” This has been critic Nikki Columbus’s refrain through the past season, issuing…

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Podcast• November 24, 2020

Season 4 Episode 1: What Artists and Curators Do for Money

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Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…

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Uncategorized• November 22, 2020

What Artists and Curators Do for Money – Season 4, Episode 1

By Momus

Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…

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Uncategorized• November 22, 2020

What Artists and Curators Do for Money – Season 4, Episode 1

By Momus

Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…

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Features, Podcast• August 13, 2020

The White Pube on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 24

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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…

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Features, Podcast• July 22, 2020

Sophia Al Maria on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 23

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For episode 23, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Sophia al Maria, a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker based in London. Author of publications including Sad…

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Features, Podcast• June 21, 2020

Ebony L. Haynes on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 22

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 For episode 22, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Ebony L. Haynes, a gallerist, curator, and writer. Haynes is the Director of Martos Gallery in…

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