“A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
Yoshio Taniguchi’s 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art integrated the glass buildings on either side of the museum so that when you…
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Season 4 Episode 5: Rianna Jade Parker on “Letter from London”
Rianna Jade Parker reads “Letter from London: What is the Status of Black Artists in England Today?” published in ARTnews (June 2020), and engages…
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How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect
In the pantheon of texts about art, there are very, very few that have had the impact of “The Tear Gas Biennial.” Published online…
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Episode 3: Art Criticism vs. Journalism with Catherine G. Wagley and Julia Halperin
In the first episode of Momus’s new “Criticism in Conversation” podcast series, an art critic and an art journalist parse the differing responsibilities and…
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How To Be an Unprofessional Artist
No one likes being called an amateur, a dilettante, a dabbler. “Unprofessional” is an easy insult. The professional always makes the right moves, knows…
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The State of the Artworld, Explained
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is opening its new contemporary art initiative, taking over the old Whitney Museum of American Art’s building…
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The Most Important Art Essays of the Year
This time last year, my editor asked me to put together a list of the most important essays of 2014, and I drew a blank….
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Are Sex Differences Getting in the Way?: The Limits of Gender-Based Curating
Dear Dick, I’m wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the ‘70s has been read only as “collaboration” and “feminist.” The…
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The Meaning Behind the Merger of ARTnews and Art in America
It’s a media cliché that more has changed in the last ten years in journalism than in the century before that. Yesterday’s big news…
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Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
Photography gallerist Stephen Bulger (b. 1964) is celebrating a significant anniversary after steadily and concertedly contributing to the international market’s appreciation of photography’s position in…
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