Regionalism Vs. Provincialism: Agitating Against Critical Neglect in Artworld Peripheries
In February, I sent Momus editor Sky Goodden a draft of a review of an exhibition in Alberta that I had pitched to her…
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“As a Relief from Language”: Hilton Als, as Artist
To read White Girls, Hilton Als’s 2013 collection of upending essays, is to feel calcified assumptions about sexual and racial identification dissolve. A chain of…
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The Ages of Mat Brown
Mat Brown is an artist whose primary concern is the immensity of time. His large drawings, rendered delicately with transparent inks on board, resemble…
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“You Can’t Win It”: Jon McCurley on the Art of Facebook
I woke up this morning to find that Jon McCurley was emitting tiny wails from the “isolation chamber” of Facebook late last night, a…
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“I Wanted to Find a Way to Respond”: Artist Ben Quilty on Working with Refugees
How do you conceive of the human cost of the largest refugee crisis since World War II? Though images of the overcrowded boats crossing…
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The Humanist Impulse of Yousuf Karsh
Artist Paul Klee said that art does not reproduce the “visible,” it makes visible. What interested him was to get to the other side…
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Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s at Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto
Kurimanzutto is a pristine, vaulted gallery in the San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood of Mexico City. As part of the recent exhibition XYLAÑYNU. Taller…
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Interview: Allison Hrabluik on the Unscripted Magic of “The Splits”
Studying the human body in movement is a constant in Allison Hrabluik’s work. Starting first with hand-drawn animations, then making more abstract films derived…
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Fantasies Both Light and Dark in Veteran Mavericks Eldon Garnet and Max Dean
Two veteran mavericks whose wide-ranging practices gradually came to concentrate around photography are enjoying late-career exhibitions in Toronto. Max Dean has received recent accolades,…
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How To Be an Unprofessional Artist
No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows…
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