Season 2

In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what are we seeking—and so often missing—in our experience of art. What follows is an interview with the British-Ghanaian curator, critic, and art historian Osei Bonsu. Based in Paris and London, Bonsu focuses on transnational histories of art. In conversation with Lauren Wetmore, he contemplates how we have exchanged a generosity of thought for a culture of transaction, and how the experience of meeting great art can be ahistorical—out of place and out of time.

This episode is supported by Esker Foundation.

Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Mitra Shreeram, and original music by Kyle McCrea.

About the Guest

About the Guest, and more

  • Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator, writer, and art historian based in London. He currently serves as the Jorge M. Pérez Senior Curator of International Art, Africa and Diaspora, at Tate Modern.

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Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2020

August 328, 2020
With faculty members Rahel Aima, Osei Bonsu, Daisy Desrosiers, Tammer El-Sheikh, Sky Goodden, Nora N. Khan, Mark Mann, Tausif Noor, James Oscar, Aliya Pabani, Andy Patton, Saelan Twerdy, and Lauren Wetmore.

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