A Frieze in Rome: William Kentridge Updates Augustus, Tangling Time
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It sounds like good advice, but Romans seem largely to ignore William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments,…
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Branding the Anthropocene: Canada’s Art Institutions Privilege the Artificial
Anthropocene – the wide-reaching exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) – tackles perhaps the greatest…
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Homage to Oneself: Julian Schnabel Interprets the Musée d’Orsay
Imagine … imagine being invited by the Musée d’Orsay to interpret its magnificent collection while also including your own artwork in an exhibition of…
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“In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann
I first observed the uncanny paintings of Ambera Wellmann in an intimate solo show at Toronto’s now-defunct Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects. A natural light…
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The Curtain’s Part: Confronting Abstraction’s Complacency in Unquiet Times
Neil Wedman’s Spotlights, on view at Vancouver’s Equinox Gallery, fills the exhibition space with ten canvases depicting the concentrated shine of a spotlight on…
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Archeology and Ambivalence at Austria’s Steirischer Herbst Festival
One morning in Graz, a woman carries a large portrait of Adolf Hitler on a bus through the center of the city. It’s an…
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Episode 7: “Over, Again and Again,” Renewing Canada’s Artist-Run Culture
In Momus: The Podcast‘s 7th episode, we have brought together a group of artists, curators, and scholars to update the conversation around Artist-Run…
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Unsettling Borders: The “Greater West” Recolonized
In Anchorage, Alaska, a starry museum exhibition with decolonial aims baits an easy celebration; it’s tempting, if somewhat patronizing, to view the existence of…
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An Exhibit in an Email: Vimeo Links, PR, and Posturing by Proxy
The night is dark and full of texture. And somewhere, over an indeterminate stretch of inky sea, the sky is lit up with red…
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Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed
When New Museum director Lisa Phillips addressed the small crowd – women, mostly – gathered in the lobby last week for the press preview…
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