A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum
“It’s like fucking vaporware.” I was on the phone with Kristina, Burnaway’s editor at large in New Orleans. We had been searching for days…
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Correcting for the Bawdy Rage of Paula Rego
The New York Times review of Paula Rego’s Tate Britain retrospective, published on July 7, begins: “Paula Rego is the kind of artist who paints a…
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Cameron Rowland’s Property Relations
Cameron Rowland uses the language of conceptual art to critique the art world’s imbrication in histories of slavery, redlining, and policing. In particular, Rowland’s…
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Jill Mulleady’s Twilight Hour
Last year, during New York City’s extended lockdown, one of the few works still on public display was a mural hung outside the Whitney…
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Season 4 Episode 9: Kristian Vistrup Madsen
In the penultimate episode of Season 4 – across which Momus: The Podcast has been engaging writers on the genesis and reception of a…
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Imperfect Archives: Lilian Leung and Linda Zhang Virtually Capture Eroding Chinatowns
Next to the yellow lettering of Mother’s Dumplings, artist Lilian Leung pulls out her phone and begins circling, taking images from as many different…
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Haubitz+Zoche Frames India’s Iconic Movie Theaters—and Absents Them
The brightly-colored Theatre Annamalai in Madurai, a temple town in Tamil Nadu, looks like the inside of a candy shop. Set against the pale…
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Season 4 Episode 8: Muna Mire & Tourmaline
This episode gets a jump on summer with artist and filmmaker Tourmaline and writer and producer Muna Mire. In conversation, they discuss Mire’s profile of Toumaline in…
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The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone
Facing the restrictions of the pandemic, most authors who published in 2020 felt they had little choice but to cancel their scheduled tours and…
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Reading Between the Lines: On the Asian Americanness of Badlands Unlimited and Paul Chan
When Paul Chan won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014, Badlands Unlimited, Chan’s publishing imprint, released a statement on its website: “Badlands asked Chan…
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