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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Pinning Whiteness to the Wall: The Violent Theater of Rosalind Fox Solomon
There’s nothing I love more than a feminist killjoy, and in Liberty Theater, Rosalind Fox Solomon just might ruin your day. This solo exhibition…
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Episode 5: Conflict of Interest with Catherine G. Wagley and Tyler Green
In this episode of “Criticism in Conversation,” two art critics and historians discuss “conflict of interest” in contemporary art criticism. Tyler Green, the host…
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Episode 6: An Ethics of Abundance with Jacob Wren and Dayna Danger
For this episode of our Criticism in Conversation series, a writer and collaborative performer, Jacob Wren, speaks with artist Dayna Danger, about the line…
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A Study in American Denial: David Wojnarowicz’s Return to the Piers
In 1991, the year before he died from AIDS, David Wojnarowicz asked his friend and occasional collaborator, Marion Scemana, to accompany him on one…
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Carolee Schneemann’s Ethics of Eros
Amid a surging wave of political activism and newly liberated energies, Carolee Schneemann wrote, in 1968, that “perception should lead to action.” Schneemann suspected…
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