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Sky Goodden

Sky Goodden is the founding Publisher and Editor of Momus, an international art criticism publication and podcast. Since 2014, Momus has been shortlisted for three International Awards for Art Criticism, and its contributors have won nine Creative Capital Warhol Grants for Art Writers, and a Rabkin Foundation Award for Art Journalism. Goodden has published in multiple catalogues and art books, as well as Frieze, Art in America, C Magazine, and Art21. She hosts two popular Momus Emerging Critics Residencies annually; and co-produces and hosts Momus: The Podcast, with Lauren Wetmore. Currently in its fourth season, the podcast was named one of the top-ten art podcasts by The New York Times in 2020. Goodden is an “Alumni of Influence” from OCAD University, where she did her MFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice; and has won the J.E.H. MacDonald Award from Toronto’s Arts & Letters Club. In collaboration with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Goodden is launching a Momus Institute in 2021-22.

Features• August 9, 2016

Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto

By Sky Goodden

The spiritual iconographies of Paul Petro’s roster are many. Robert Flack’s seven chakras series from the 1990s; Stephen Andrews’s heaven painting, and The Apostles;…

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Reviews• July 5, 2016

The Politics of Color in Kristine Moran

By Sky Goodden

It’s tempting to consider Kristine Moran’s most recent work as a pivot-point in an ascendency from abstraction to figuration. Figures, indeed, are emerging from…

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Reviews• May 24, 2016

A Parallel Landscape: Ned Pratt’s Abstract Sublime

By Sky Goodden

In Canadian art’s long and unswift adaptation of an avant-garde, landscape painting yielded to an important reduction, an essentializing that rendered place ancillary, and…

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Features• April 7, 2016

“You Can’t Win It”: Jon McCurley on the Art of Facebook

By Sky Goodden

I woke up this morning to find that Jon McCurley was emitting tiny wails from the “isolation chamber” of Facebook late last night, a…

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Reviews• March 14, 2016

In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend

By Sky Goodden

“Artists don’t own the meaning of their work.” New York Times critic Roberta Smith issued this controversial and affecting line to a full auditorium…

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Features• February 29, 2016

To Cloak or Reveal: Ryan Gander on the Question That Dogs Him

By Sky Goodden

At the end of our interview Ryan Gander is suggesting we meet again, “Same time next week?” He’s laughing. I’ve involuntarily submitted myself to…

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Features• February 16, 2016

“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”

By Sky Goodden

When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…

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Features• December 14, 2015

The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga

By Sky Goodden

Joseph Tisiga is an emerging artist of a particular stripe. He is young (born in 1984), and very successful: he was nominated as a…

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Features• November 26, 2015

“It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure

By Sky Goodden

I first sat down with Jessica Bradley in late July, hoping to discuss her recently shuttered gallery. I was, at that time, wanting what…

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Features• November 13, 2015

These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor

By Sky Goodden

Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads tentatively, delicately,…

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