Inside the Ruins of American Masculinity: Jared Buckhiester at David Kordansky Gallery
In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a ritual of collapse and works inside…
Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid
Tune in to a special bonus episode of Momus: The Podcast featuring a live recording from the launch of writer and critic Minh Nguyen’s…
Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work
Louise Nevelson and I are twins, separated at birth by almost one hundred years—or maybe we’re friends, or she’s my godparent: a guiding light,…
Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should…
Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery
One Hundred Years, Abbas Akhavan’s current exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (UBC), loosely draws on the Brothers…
Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements
I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky…
Dare to Have Fun: Pixy Liao Plays with Gendered Power at the Art Institute of Chicago
“A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy Liao’s…
Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that…
Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada
As I crossed the threshold into the dimly lit opening gallery that introduced Nadia Myre’s exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, I was…
Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young
Leilah Babirye’s first solo museum show, We Have a History, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, is comprised of twelve large-scale sculptures…
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante joins us for the finale of Season 8. The Belgian-born American critic, writer, and artist talks about her lifelong textual engagement with…
Extraordinary Living Begins Here: Artists Negotiate Large-Scale Infrastructure
Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small…
Risking Fear: Hamad Butt at Whitechapel Gallery
In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot…
The Technologies of Art and War: Lucy Raven at Vancouver Art Gallery
Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for…
What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
Myth and Reality Converge: Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui at Richmond Art Gallery
Entering The Roaming Peach Blossom Spring, Qiu Anxiong and Howie Tsui’s two-person exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, felt like stepping into…