Episode 19: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Johanna Fateman
For this episode, Sky Goodden spoke with art writer and musician Johanna Fateman, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, a contributing editor…
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Artists in Isolation: There Have Always Been Signs
“We are not where we think we are,” Dr. Fauci warned, before we all woke up to an altered time. In this new reality,…
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Artists in Isolation: Instagram, Leave Us to Our Darkness
Sometime that feels pretty recent, the internet turned into an actual talent show. Social media always felt performative, and now, with TikTok ascendant and…
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Episode 18: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Alessandro Bava
Momus: The Podcast launched Season 3 with the question “what’s changed – and what should?”, which we continue with Alessandro Bava, an architect and…
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Artists in Isolation: Wafaa Bilal’s “Domestic Tension”
In 2007 Wafaa Bilal locked himself inside a Chicago gallery. He lived there alone for a month, using a webcam to broadcast around the…
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The Invention of the Humane: Ken Lum’s Collected Writings
I was planning to attend the Art Metropole launch of Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, Ken Lum’s book of his selected…
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Episode 17: “What’s Changed, and What Should?” with Eleanor Nairne
Momus: The Podcast launches Season 3 with the question “what’s changed – and what should?” with curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. This…
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Artists in Isolation: Adad Hannah’s Tableaux Vivants
A figure stands pinned in place. He was fighting. Shadowboxing, maybe. Now he’s halted and just breathing and waiting and watching, nervously. Late-frost synthesizers…
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Writing About Indigenous Art with Critical Care
With arms crossed, a Métis curator contemplates Kent Monkman’s The Scream (2017) at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The history painting dramatizes Canada’s seizure of First Nations,…
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The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA
Four men came to our house because they were interested in architecture. They knew someone who knew our landlord, which is how they got…
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