Ajay Kurian’s Futures Long Since Passed
If we are to believe artist Hito Steyerl, then ours is an age of planetary civil war. With conflict distributed across the globe, there’s…
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“Embarrassment is a Challenge”: The Queasy Vulnerability of Maria Lassnig
In 1972 a curious awards ceremony took place in the cramped Manhattan studio of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. Tired of being ignored as an…
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Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16
As we near our two-year anniversary, and summer draws to a close, Momus takes a moment to reflect on the last twelve months of…
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Momus Video Series: Orit Gat’s “If It Looks Like Zeitgeist, It Might be Anxiety: Art After the Internet”
On 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…
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Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto
The 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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Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent
Staging a major retrospective of Edmund Alleyn as a flagship summer show is a bold move on the part of the Musée d’art contemporain…
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Manifesta 11: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
It is a very small, and no doubt unintentional victory for the curatorial concept of Manifesta 11: What People Do for Money-Some Joint Ventures…
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“If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described the collective imagination of black people in America in terms of freedom dreams, and these dreams…
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“Out There in the Many Miles of Bad Lands”: Georgia O’Keeffe in Her Own Words
“It takes a kind of nerve … and a lot of hard, hard work.” So said Georgia O’Keeffe at the age of 90 when…
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After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble
In the early days of 2009, to celebrate its ascendancy to the presidency of the European Union, the Czech Republic commissioned a special artwork…
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