Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: On Artists and Survival
An artist recently lamented to me that, these days, being an artist felt so painfully inadequate. Against fascism and pandemic, the racist cruelty of…
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The Orgasmic Capacity of Color: Judy Chicago’s Los Angeles
Throughout this period I was also discovering that I was multi-orgasmic … I was developing color systems which made forms turn, dissolve, open, close,…
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Wealth and Lust in Monaco: The Sensuous Illusions of Tom Wesselmann
The vitality of sexual liberation in a perpetual summer, slick with a well-advertised promise of paradise. Sunstroked bodies lotioned and perfumed with coconut sunblock…
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How to Make Art History
Right now, in some small room, art history is being made. The notion is a carved chunk of marble, a brass plaque, the halls…
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How to Stop Working Better
1 DO ONE THING AT A TIME The story goes that the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss found this list…
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Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe
Two brand-new, chunky metal triangles jut out and join above the glassy entrance of the black cinderblock edifice that houses the recently-renovated SITE Santa…
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Momus Best-Of Volume 3: 2016-17
I confess to experiencing regular doubt, lately, about what art criticism can contribute to the fray when the conversations we need to be having,…
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How to Act Ethically in Art
Don’t fuck the curator. Or the artist, the gallerist, the writer, or their editor. Unless, of course, you really want to. And, it almost…
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“Everyone’s Heart is Full of Fire”: A Portrait of Martha Kirszenbaum, Curator
A burst of confetti from a painted cannon. A name you call across the crowd: Martha, Martha, Martha. An exasperation with her force like…
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Momus: The Podcast: The Venice Biennale
Pilot Episode: The Venice Biennale Download Welcome to the pilot episode of Momus: The Podcast! For our first broadcast, we focus on the historic Venice Biennale. As…
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