The Venice Biennale
Welcome to the pilot episode of Momus: The Podcast. For our first broadcast, we focus on the historic Venice Biennale as the 57th edition opens to the public….
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The Pantomimed Fellowship of Nicole Eisenman’s “Al-ugh-ories”
Nicole Eisenman – beloved New York painter, now MacArthur-certified “Genius” – has just opened a show at the New Museum with the jokey title, “Al-ugh-ories.” The single-floor showing…
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Momus is an online platform for art writing and criticism. Led by founding publisher Sky Goodden, Momus is headquartered in Montreal, with an international team based…
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Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
A raccoon was screaming in agony with a gash in their side in Mollie’s backyard when I called to check in. “Animal control refused…
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A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum
“It’s like fucking vaporware.” I was on the phone with Kristina, Burnaway’s editor at large in New Orleans. We had been searching for days…
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It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art
When we meet on St. Catherine Street in Montreal on a chilly Thursday afternoon in October, Bridget Moser tells me she has recently been…
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Virginia Woolf: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers at the Tate
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – then my…
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Weird Science: William Kentridge Deepens Time at Whitechapel
Normal science, wrote Thomas Kuhn, is the way most scientists spend their time: the quotidian task of theorizing, observing, experimenting – puzzle solving, in…
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Any Plans After the Exhibition?
The image above is an installation shot from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. It was a recreation of Harald Szeeman’s famous exhibition…
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