A Culture War is Coming
Very early on November 9 – about a minute after permanent midnight – the stunned responses started rolling in. “WTF are you doing over…
Read MoreVery early on November 9 – about a minute after permanent midnight – the stunned responses started rolling in. “WTF are you doing over…
Read MoreAlong the long evening avenue of towering hotels during the art fair, you weave through the crowds. Another night. The faces flicker and scatter…
Read MoreAnnie Pootoogook was from the Arctic near the North Pole. Her community is called Kinngait in Inuktitut – the language of Inuit people – and…
Read MoreEva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…
Read MoreIt was his spirit of collaboration and friendship that first brought my father to the Italian coastal town of Albissola, just west of Genoa….
Read MoreIf we are to believe artist Hito Steyerl, then ours is an age of planetary civil war. With conflict distributed across the globe, there’s…
Read MoreIn 1972 a curious awards ceremony took place in the cramped Manhattan studio of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. Tired of being ignored as an…
Read MoreAs we near our two-year anniversary, and summer draws to a close, Momus takes a moment to reflect on the last twelve months of…
Read MoreOn April 19, 2016, Momus presented a talk by award-winning art critic and former Momus contributing editor Orit Gat titled “If It Looks Like Zeitgeist, It Might be Anxiety: Art After…
Read MoreThe 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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