Colossal Harbingers: The Monumentalism of Art About Climate Change
At the same time as the earth’s atmosphere grows more strange, giant anthropomorphic sculptures have been rising eerily out of the landscape. In the…
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“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden
Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…
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An Ascetic Pose: Avery Singer’s New Refusal
Before I saw Avery Singer’s paintings in Reality Ender, her first solo show at Hauser & Wirth in New York, I didn’t think it…
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Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic
Over the last several years, Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Instagram comics (produced under the handle @avocado_ibuprofen) have become a minor phenomenon. Beloved among art world participants,…
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“It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy
Within the flood of new trans memoirs and books offering their definitive takes on trans theory in the past few years, I gratefully found…
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On Whiteness
In 2017, I started working with Claudia Rankine and a collective called the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). For their inaugural project they were curating…
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Breathing Resistance: An Interview with Sahar Te
The sound of breathing permeated the space. It was unsettling not only because this encounter happened in the middle of a pandemic in which…
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Oliver Lee Jackson, the People’s Painter
“The Painter” moves expansively but in fits across the second side of Dogon A.D., a pendulous free jazz masterpiece self-released by Julius Hemphill in…
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel
In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in…
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Plant People
What is it about the threat of impending death that drives us into the arms of Mother Nature? In 2020, there was a curious…
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