Beware the “Creative Economy”
One-thousand six-hundred fifty-four. I’m not teaching this semester, but if I were, that is the one number that I would want everyone to remember….
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Shedding New Light on the Night: Obscurity and Clarity in the American Nocturne
Artists have long exploited the Zoroastrian struggle between light and dark to create images. Although darkness implies mystery and melancholy, in the hands of…
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First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics
Is contemporary Aboriginal art necessarily political? Does art made by First Nations, Inuit, or Métis artists inevitably engage with such historical events and trauma…
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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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Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
American artist Glenn Ligón is bringing together artworks spanning decades, continents, and themes that closely relate to his work with race and gender in post-war America….
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On the Subtle Joy of Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin began her lecture at Yale University with a deep breath … slowly, in and out. It was the mid-1970s, and Martin (1912–2004) was…
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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The Meaning Behind the Merger of ARTnews and Art in America
It’s a media cliché that more has changed in the last ten years in journalism than in the century before that. Yesterday’s big news…
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Picturing Nothing: Reading the Drawings of Sophie Jodoin Through the Words of Samuel Beckett
Four square all light sheer white blank planes all gone from mind. Never was but grey air timeless no sound figment the passing light….
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On Jurassic World’s Blockbusting Fear of Art
It’s easy to ignore pop culture’s messages. Too easy. Popular culture delivers its ideas and manifestos with such ham-fisted, careless presentation that the first…
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