Post-Crisis: What’s Next for Art Criticism in a Digital Age
Momus was founded a short time ago. It was initiated as a proposed recovery from a confused and defensive (and, so I thought, largely…
Read MoreMomus was founded a short time ago. It was initiated as a proposed recovery from a confused and defensive (and, so I thought, largely…
Read MoreYoko Ono: One-Woman Show, 1960-1971 arrives at the Museum of Modern Art pre-freighted with issues of art and celebrity that have dogged the institution of…
Read MoreToday, the new Whitney Museum of American Art opens its broad gates to the masses. If New York’s museum competition were a horserace, Renzo Piano’s appealing and thoughtful…
Read More“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
Read MoreThere has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
Read MoreIn 2009, @on_kawara flickered onto the scene. The Twitter account, whose profile picture is a black square, simply tweeted out once a day, “I…
Read MoreThis is an article about art and gentrification, the inescapable topic. I have something new to add—that I think we may be coming to the…
Read MoreIt’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive…
Read MoreWalter Benjamin has a line about the Angel of History who sees the past as “one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and…
Read MoreLet me begin with an art historical chestnut — a 1855 painting by the French painter Gustave Courbet called The Artist’s Studio, A Real…
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