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Features• February 16, 2023

Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

By Eliza Swann

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…

Features, Reviews• December 10, 2022

Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

By Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

The coverage and criticism of Documenta 15 was an experience in itself, whether or not you made it to Kassel this year. This edition…

Features• June 23, 2022

Akram Zaatari: Dance to the End of Love

By Vijay Masharani

Dance to the End of Love is a four-channel polyphonic, visual fantasia composed of found YouTube footage of young men in the MENA region….

Features• April 4, 2022

“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden

By Calum Sutherland

Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…

Features• February 24, 2022

On Whiteness

By Simon Wu

In 2017, I started working with Claudia Rankine and a collective called the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). For their inaugural project they were curating…

Features, Podcast• July 19, 2021

Season 4 Episode 9: Kristian Vistrup Madsen

By Momus

In the penultimate episode of Season 4 – across which Momus: The Podcast has been engaging writers on the genesis and reception of a…

Features, Podcast• January 8, 2021

Season 4 Episode 3: Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove”

By Momus

“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April…

Reviews• June 30, 2020

Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India

By Kamayani Sharma

This past winter was a tumultuous one for India. Braving police brutality and state repression, protests raged against draconian anti-Muslim legislation and a forthcoming…