Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
In Venice, last spring, over the requisite Spritz, I met with the London and New York-based critic Orit Gat to discuss the possibility of…
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Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time
In 1970, a powerful bomb detonated Rodin’s Thinker (1880-81) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. This edition of the sculpture was a rare version of the existing 25…
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Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists
Twice in the past year I’ve visited Olga Korper and she’s taken me from the gallery, past the offices, through her kitchen (where there’s…
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Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1
It’s been a good ten months. Since October 2014, Momus has quickly become a trusted reference for those wishing to reflect on contemporary art at…
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What Gets Revealed When Iris Häussler Finally Owns Her Name
It’s not easy to write about Iris Häussler. I’ve been avoiding it, though desiring it, since her daring He Named Her Amber (2008) subsumed the…
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Chantal Pontbriand Will Not Curate Your Biennial: On “Demo-Graphics,” and Its Potential to Reignite Toronto
There is a bracing moment at the end of my interview with Chantal Pontbriand in early July, where, just as I’m about to leave,…
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Post-Crisis: What’s Next for Art Criticism in a Digital Age
Momus was founded a short time ago. It was initiated as a proposed recovery from a confused and defensive (and, so I thought, largely…
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A Rebuttal, Not a Conversation: Discussing Ombaasin’s AGO Intervention, “Land Rights Now”
Walking the AGO’s latest exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscapes from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic with Wanda Nanibush, an Anishnawbe-kwe artist, consultant, and…
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Interview: Tacita Dean
Twice in the course of a thirty-minute interview with Tacita Dean, her eyes move across the room and narrow-in on the media coordinator, who…
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Wayne Baerwaldt on ACAD’s Dissolution of His Director/Curator Position: “It’s an Issue of Public Trust”
A recent scuttling on social-media signaled a disturbance was underfoot at Alberta College of Art + Design (ACAD), where the well-reputed Illingworth Kerr Gallery…
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