“What Makes Great Art?”: Momus: The Podcast with Osei Bonsu (Episode 9)
In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what…
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“But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
We were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…
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“So Many Glaring Absences That Were Very Loud to Me”: An Interview with Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar came into the limelight soon after Time magazine commissioned him in 2014 to make a painting for one of its “Person of the Year”…
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“What Makes Great Art?” with Jeanne Randolph and Sheila Heti (Episode 8)
What makes “great art”? How do we account for what Gertrude Stein called the “itness” of art, and what are we seeking –…
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Ceramics in the Expanded Field: The Art World, the Clay World, and the Case for John Mason
Let’s suppose that ceramic art, done by artists who were clay handlers before anything else, got accepted as sculpture proper – that and nothing…
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Searching for Lemon Boy
While managing the art collection of the famed theater director Robert Wilson in the early 2000s, Kentucky-born artist Scott Rollins discovered a striking photo of a man wearing a full-body fishnet…
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The Seductive Branding of Phoebe Greenberg
Phoebe Greenberg occupies a unique position in Montreal’s art community, as well as in Canada – and she’s made sure of it. The former…
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Ana Mendieta’s Death is Not a Metaphor
Let the art come first. This must have been the axiom behind Covered in Time and History, Martin-Gropius-Bau’s 2018 exhibition of twenty-three films and…
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The Picture of Terror: Contemporary Art and the Islamic State
In January of 2015, Hito Steyerl ventured to the border between Turkey and Syria while the battle for Kobanê – a harrowing struggle between…
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Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”
I’ve spent the better part of five months trying to write a review of a show that’s now closed: MOCA Toronto’s inaugural exhibition, Believe….
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