• Writing,
  • Archive
  • Programs,
  • Residencies & Fellowships
  • Talks & Events
  • Podcast,
  • About,
  • Contributors
  • Write for Momus
  • Contact
  • Support
  • Advertise
  • Donate
    •
    Search
    search
  • Writing
  • Archive
  • Programs
  • Residencies & Fellowships
  • Talks & Events
  • Podcast
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Write for Momus
  • Contact
  • Support
  • Advertise
  • Donate
    •

    How to

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence
    Features May 14, 2026
    M. Neelika Jayawardane

    What it Means to Continue: On Gabrielle Goliath, Reparative Work, and Resisting State Violence

    Write for Momus

    Tour de Farce: Pat Oleszko at SculptureCenter
    Reviews March 19, 2026
    Madeleine Seidel

    Tour de Farce: Pat Oleszko at SculptureCenter

    Momus Residency: To Build and Sustain

    Residency August 11–15, 2025

    Momus Arts Journalism Residency

    Residency June 10–July 25, 2024

    Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency May 15–June 4, 2023

    Donate

    Contact

    Writing Relations, Making Futurities: Global Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency February 7-11, 2022 and March 14-18, 2022

    Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2020

    Residency August 3–28, 2020
    Tash Nikol Smith

    Tash Nikol Smith

    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece
    Features March 4, 2026
    Eliza Swann

    Moving Through the Rupture: Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano Revisit Rope Piece

    Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
    Features, Reviews January 29, 2026
    Lisa Hsiao Chen

    Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1

    Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work
    Reviews December 15, 2025
    Ruby Sky Stiler

    Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work

    Dare to Have Fun: Pixy Liao Plays with Gendered Power at the Art Institute of Chicago
    Reviews November 13, 2025
    Anna Aguiar Kosicki

    Dare to Have Fun: Pixy Liao Plays with Gendered Power at the Art Institute of Chicago

    What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
    Features September 25, 2025
    Elisa Wouk Almino

    What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present
    Features August 21, 2025
    Nasrin Himada

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
    Features August 14, 2025
    Ramona Ngin

    Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings

    Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine
    Features, Reviews August 1, 2025
    Elizabeth Wiet

    Jack Whitten, Human Xerox Machine

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair
    Features July 17, 2025
    Najrin Islam

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority
    Features July 10, 2025
    Gervais Marsh

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority

    End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty
    Features June 19, 2025
    Sarah Hollenberg

    End of the World: Revisiting a Lost Future at Spiral Jetty

    The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems
    Features May 15, 2025
    Cat Kron

    The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance
    Reviews April 17, 2025
    Brian Karl

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance

    Remembering Kelly Mark
    Features March 25, 2025
    Sky Goodden

    Remembering Kelly Mark

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
    Features, Reviews February 13, 2025
    Diana SeoHyung

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard

    Arenas of Freedom
    Reviews December 20, 2024
    Claudia La Rocco

    Arenas of Freedom

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian
    Reviews December 12, 2024
    Claire Voon

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
    Features November 12, 2024
    Sky Goodden

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past
    Reviews September 5, 2024
    Julie Weitz

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting
    Features May 3, 2024
    Jason Stopa

    Changing the Ground: Amy Sillman Talks About Painting

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
    Features, Reviews April 26, 2024
    Terry Nguyen

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings
    Features March 29, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Falling From the Tower: Levani on the Necessity of Endings

    Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude
    Features, Reviews November 30, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
    Features, Reviews August 22, 2023
    Elisabeth Nicula

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject
    Features July 28, 2023
    Doreen A. Rios

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering
    Features July 18, 2023
    Mimi Wong

    The Art of Accumulation in an Age of Decluttering

    A Clinic the Size of the World
    Features, Reviews June 15, 2023
    Rouzbeh Shadpey

    A Clinic the Size of the World

    Working It
    Features, Reviews May 25, 2023
    Kate Wolf

    Working It

    Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India
    Features May 22, 2023
    Arushi Vats

    Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
    Features April 28, 2023
    Catalina Ouyang, Summer Kim Lee

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale
    Reviews March 22, 2023
    Andrew Russeth

    Never Risky: Seeking New Life at the Singapore Biennale

    Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women
    Reviews March 2, 2023
    Neil Price

    Out of Necessity and Out of Love: Andrea Fatona’s 30-Year Tribute to Black Canadian Women

    Submerged Mothers: On Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Tidal Embrace
    Features February 21, 2023
    Jade Meili Barget

    Submerged Mothers: On Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s Tidal Embrace

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
    Features February 16, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

    It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
    Features, Reviews February 7, 2023
    Ella Dawn McGeough

    It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
    Features January 31, 2023
    Catherine G. Wagley

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief
    Features, Reviews January 6, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thief

    “We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery
    Features December 22, 2022
    Sky Goodden

    “We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15
    Features, Reviews December 10, 2022
    Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

    Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

    Preoccupied with Things Left Behind: On Three Nigerian Artists
    Features November 2, 2022
    Ayodeji Rotinwa

    Preoccupied with Things Left Behind: On Three Nigerian Artists

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen
    Features October 26, 2022
    Catherine G. Wagley

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen

    How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kotlár
    Features October 3, 2022
    Denisa Tomková

    How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kotlár

    Rearrange: Torkwase Dyson and Black Feminist Breathing
    Features August 3, 2022
    Camille Bacon

    Rearrange: Torkwase Dyson and Black Feminist Breathing

    A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work
    Features July 19, 2022
    Nora Rosenthal

    A Meditation on Hannah Wilke’s Last Work

    Akram Zaatari: Dance to the End of Love
    Features June 23, 2022
    Vijay Masharani

    Akram Zaatari: Dance to the End of Love

    Hypoxia and Hope
    Features May 26, 2022
    Kamayani Sharma

    Hypoxia and Hope

    “I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden
    Features April 4, 2022
    Calum Sutherland

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

    The Historical Invention of Gala Porras-Kim
    Reviews March 7, 2022
    Maddie Klett

    The Historical Invention of Gala Porras-Kim

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy
    Features March 3, 2022
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy

    Plant People
    Features January 10, 2022
    Danielle Wu

    Plant People

    Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial
    Reviews November 23, 2021
    Laura August

    Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial

    More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
    Reviews October 7, 2021
    Melissa Lo

    More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History

    A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum
    Features September 28, 2021
    Jasmine Amussen

    A Love Letter in Louisville: Breonna Taylor at the Speed Museum

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone
    Features June 3, 2021
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone

    “How to Go On?”
    Podcast May 6, 2021
    Season 4: Episode 7

    “How to Go On?”
    Nora N. Khan

    “I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet”: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting
    Features April 30, 2021
    Jason Stopa

    “I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet”: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting

    Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston
    Features, Reviews April 20, 2021
    Laura August

    Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

    See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind
    Features April 1, 2021
    Lauren DiGiulio

    See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind

    Imagination Over Submission: Luis Camnitzer’s Liberatory Art Education
    Features, Reviews March 23, 2021
    Minh Nguyen

    Imagination Over Submission: Luis Camnitzer’s Liberatory Art Education

    Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater
    Features, Reviews February 11, 2021
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater

    The Aesthetic Dimension of Erasure: Voluspa Jarpa on Twenty Years of Recovering Trauma
    Features January 27, 2021
    Juan José Santos

    The Aesthetic Dimension of Erasure: Voluspa Jarpa on Twenty Years of Recovering Trauma

    Stringing the Net: An Interview with Small Arts Patron Annie Koyama
    Features December 8, 2020
    Sky Goodden

    Stringing the Net: An Interview with Small Arts Patron Annie Koyama

    Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing
    Reviews October 9, 2020
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing

    “As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge
    Features September 17, 2020
    Andrew Woolbright

    “As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill
    Features August 18, 2020
    Andreas Petrossiants

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill

    “A Planetary Expenditure”: Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance
    Features August 6, 2020
    Jarrett Earnest

    “A Planetary Expenditure”: Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance

    Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: On Artists and Survival
    Features July 13, 2020
    Andrew Berardini

    Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: On Artists and Survival

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil
    Features May 29, 2020
    Saelan Twerdy

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil

    The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA
    Features March 13, 2020
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA

    Lives of the Artists: Remembering Vilmos
    Features February 13, 2020
    Ted Goodden

    Lives of the Artists: Remembering Vilmos

    To Better Days: Optimistic Design for an Uncertain Future
    Reviews February 7, 2020
    Jessica Rizzo

    To Better Days: Optimistic Design for an Uncertain Future

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl
    Features January 27, 2020
    Jarrett Earnest

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl

    An Arch and a Gulf: When Public Art Falls Short of Social Reality
    Features January 24, 2020
    Ken Lum

    An Arch and a Gulf: When Public Art Falls Short of Social Reality

    Open Secrets: Gossip and the Reframing of a Canadian Painting Dynasty
    Features, Reviews January 17, 2020
    David Balzer

    Open Secrets: Gossip and the Reframing of a Canadian Painting Dynasty

    The Signs for Where We Meet: A Conversation Between Robert Fones and James Kirkpatrick
    Features December 13, 2019
    James Kirkpatrick

    The Signs for Where We Meet: A Conversation Between Robert Fones and James Kirkpatrick

    John Boskovich Steers His Own “Recovery”
    Reviews November 22, 2019
    Gracie Hadland

    John Boskovich Steers His Own “Recovery”

    The Tautological Reeling of Young & Giroux
    Reviews October 18, 2019
    Rhiannon Vogl

    The Tautological Reeling of Young & Giroux

    The Orgasmic Capacity of Color: Judy Chicago’s Los Angeles
    Reviews October 2, 2019
    Andrew Berardini

    The Orgasmic Capacity of Color: Judy Chicago’s Los Angeles

    Context, Tokenism, and Trans Solidarity: An Interview with Dan Cardinal McCartney
    Features September 27, 2019
    Anj Fermor

    Context, Tokenism, and Trans Solidarity: An Interview with Dan Cardinal McCartney

    A Crit of the Crit
    Features September 12, 2019
    Josh Thorpe

    A Crit of the Crit

    How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect
    Features July 27, 2019
    Ben Davis

    How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect

    “We Need More Voices”: Introducing the Momus Emerging Critics Residency
    Features July 23, 2019
    Sky Goodden, Amelia Wong-Mersereau

    “We Need More Voices”: Introducing the Momus Emerging Critics Residency

    Remembering Katharine Mulherin
    Features July 18, 2019
    Sky Goodden

    Remembering Katharine Mulherin

    Invisible Labor and Black Burnout
    Features May 3, 2019
    Melissa Smith

    Invisible Labor and Black Burnout

    Applying “Applied Art”: Gropius Bau Mines Old Division Under New Direction
    Reviews April 16, 2019
    Alison Hugill

    Applying “Applied Art”: Gropius Bau Mines Old Division Under New Direction

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
    Features April 1, 2019
    Catherine G. Wagley

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital

    The Architecture of Exclusion: Storytelling Hannah Hoffman’s New Home Through Paul Williams and Tony Cokes
    Reviews March 15, 2019
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Architecture of Exclusion: Storytelling Hannah Hoffman’s New Home Through Paul Williams and Tony Cokes

    Searching for Lemon Boy
    Features March 4, 2019
    Paul Michael Brown

    Searching for Lemon Boy

    Can Words “Bounce”? A Complicated Resilience on Vancouver Island
    Reviews February 22, 2019
    Casey Beal

    Can Words “Bounce”? A Complicated Resilience on Vancouver Island

    Ana Mendieta’s Death is Not a Metaphor
    Features, Reviews February 12, 2019
    Mitch Speed

    Ana Mendieta’s Death is Not a Metaphor

    “Velvet Buzzsaw” Should Terrify the Artworld
    Reviews January 31, 2019
    Ben Davis

    “Velvet Buzzsaw” Should Terrify the Artworld

    The Picture of Terror: Contemporary Art and the Islamic State
    Features January 25, 2019
    Owen Duffy

    The Picture of Terror: Contemporary Art and the Islamic State

    Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”
    Features, Reviews January 21, 2019
    Sky Goodden

    Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”

    The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”
    Features, Reviews December 7, 2018
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”

    “In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann
    Features November 13, 2018
    Sky Goodden

    “In the Round of Her Need”: An Interview with Ambera Wellmann

    Confronting Gender Imbalance at the Rencontres d’Arles
    Features September 13, 2018
    Naomi Rea

    Confronting Gender Imbalance at the Rencontres d’Arles

    A Pile of Dirt
    Features August 28, 2018
    Josh Thorpe

    A Pile of Dirt

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel
    Features July 13, 2018
    Jon Davies, Joshua Schwebel

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel

    The Manner of Their Dying
    Features June 15, 2018
    Andy Patton

    The Manner of Their Dying

    How to Make Art History
    Features May 18, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Make Art History

    Think of Harald’s Position: Weighing Szeemann’s Obsessions in L.A.
    Features, Reviews April 30, 2018
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Think of Harald’s Position: Weighing Szeemann’s Obsessions in L.A.

    How to Stop Working Better
    Features April 9, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Stop Working Better

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde
    Features March 26, 2018
    Ben Davis

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
    Features March 21, 2018
    Aruna D'Souza

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing

    Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper
    Reviews March 15, 2018
    Sky Goodden

    Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)
    Features March 13, 2018
    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)

    How to Toil in Obscurity
    Features February 22, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Toil in Obscurity

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit
    Reviews February 19, 2018
    Eva Díaz

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit

    “Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal
    Features January 9, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    “Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal

    Privilege as Political Tool: Tania Bruguera on the Usefulness of Art
    Features November 21, 2017
    Merray Michael Mina

    Privilege as Political Tool: Tania Bruguera on the Usefulness of Art

    Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”
    Reviews November 17, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Palpable Urgency and Understated Ecology: Latvia’s “Survival Kit 9”

    “Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History
    Reviews November 7, 2017
    Catherine G. Wagley

    “Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History

    Remnant Intuition: Contemporary Turns on the Grace of Still Life
    Reviews October 13, 2017
    E.C. Woodley

    Remnant Intuition: Contemporary Turns on the Grace of Still Life

    White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”
    Reviews October 12, 2017
    Mark Mann

    White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”
    Reviews September 14, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Performance Art Blows Open the Prairies, in “Stages”

    How to Act Ethically in Art
    Features July 28, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Act Ethically in Art

    The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri
    Reviews June 8, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    The Abject Intimacies of Chris Curreri

    Invasiveness and Indigeneity: Alicia Escott’s Complicit Critique
    Reviews May 19, 2017
    Monica Westin

    Invasiveness and Indigeneity: Alicia Escott’s Complicit Critique

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction
    Reviews May 17, 2017
    John Holten

    What Happened to the Anthropocene? Searching the 57th Venice Biennale for Signs of Destruction

    How To Write a Review
    Features March 28, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    How To Write a Review

    The Double-Bind in Raqs Media Collective’s Institutional Critique
    Features March 15, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    The Double-Bind in Raqs Media Collective’s Institutional Critique

    What Is an Art Fair Doing Asking “What Is To Be Done?”
    Features March 8, 2017
    Sky Goodden

    What Is an Art Fair Doing Asking “What Is To Be Done?”

    “A Self-Implicated Search”: Reviewing Robert Linsley’s Final Book
    Features, Reviews March 1, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    “A Self-Implicated Search”: Reviewing Robert Linsley’s Final Book

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
    Features February 13, 2017
    Ben Davis

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty
    Features January 31, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s
    Reviews January 26, 2017
    Alison Hugill

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s

    Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
    Features January 12, 2017
    Fabien Maltais-Bayda

    Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries
    Reviews December 13, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Ways of Seeing John Berger, in Two Recent Documentaries

    How to Hang a Picture
    Features December 6, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Hang a Picture

    Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial
    Features, Reviews November 22, 2016
    Saelan Twerdy

    Morbid Symptoms: In Search of the Post-Contemporary at the 2016 Montreal Biennial

    A Culture War is Coming
    Features November 10, 2016
    Christian Viveros-Fauné

    A Culture War is Coming

    A House Divided: Theaster Gates’s Confused Beat at the AGO
    Reviews November 4, 2016
    Ulysses Castellanos

    A House Divided: Theaster Gates’s Confused Beat at the AGO

    Toronto the Good, in Two Histories
    Reviews October 26, 2016
    Philip Monk

    Toronto the Good, in Two Histories

    How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out
    Features October 20, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to FOMO: Missing Out On the Fear of Missing Out

    The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether
    Reviews October 18, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard
    Reviews October 13, 2016
    Juan José Santos

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard

    Ajay Kurian’s Futures Long Since Passed
    Features September 8, 2016
    Owen Duffy

    Ajay Kurian’s Futures Long Since Passed

    Gilda Williams

    Gilda Williams

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16
    Features August 25, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16

    DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience
    Reviews August 16, 2016
    Alison Hugill

    DIS Collective’s Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience

    After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble
    Features June 30, 2016
    Ben Davis

    After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble

    Ali Smith

    Ali Smith

    How to Become a Curator
    Features May 16, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Become a Curator

    How To Be an Unprofessional Artist
    Features March 23, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How To Be an Unprofessional Artist

    Does the Right Hand Cover for the Left?: The Case of the Remai Modern and Its Errant Board
    Features March 4, 2016
    Mitch Speed

    Does the Right Hand Cover for the Left?: The Case of the Remai Modern and Its Errant Board

    The Slow, Meditative Optimism of Jillian Kay Ross
    Reviews February 5, 2016
    Alex Bowron

    The Slow, Meditative Optimism of Jillian Kay Ross

    “How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism
    Features February 2, 2016
    Dick Averns

    “How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism

    How to See the Invisible
    Features January 25, 2016
    Andrew Berardini

    How to See the Invisible

    Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?
    Features January 14, 2016
    Ben Davis

    Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?

    The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga
    Features December 14, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga

    Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art
    Features December 8, 2015
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art

    How to Art Fair
    Features December 3, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Art Fair

    “It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure
    Features November 26, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    “It‘s Like Deciding to Cut Off a Leg and Keep Walking”: Jessica Bradley On Her Controversial Closure

    A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films
    Features November 17, 2015
    Ulysses Castellanos

    A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films

    These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
    Features November 13, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor

    The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
    Features November 10, 2015
    Sky Goodden, Benjamin Genocchio, James McAnally, Sarrita Hunn

    The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review

    How to Read an Art Magazine
    Features November 2, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Read an Art Magazine

    Why We Photograph
    Features November 2, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    Why We Photograph

    Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station
    Features October 27, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station

    Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA
    Reviews October 26, 2015
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA

    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
    Features October 21, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair

    Interview: The Compressed Violence of Dana Schutz
    Features October 19, 2015
    Benjamin Bruneau

    Interview: The Compressed Violence of Dana Schutz

    How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127
    Reviews October 14, 2015
    Alison Snowball

    How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127

    The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte
    Reviews September 28, 2015
    Becca Rothfeld

    The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte

    Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists
    Features September 24, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists

    A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art
    Features September 16, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    A Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art

    Beware the “Creative Economy”
    Features September 15, 2015
    Ben Davis

    Beware the “Creative Economy”

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics
    Features September 8, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics

    Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1
    Features August 24, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1

    Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”
    Reviews August 18, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”

    Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon
    Features August 14, 2015
    Glenn Ligon, Simon Grant

    Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon

    Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana
    Reviews July 20, 2015
    Mitch Speed

    Mary Heilmann and David Reed’s “Two By Two” at the Hamburger Bahnhof Floats Towards Americana

    Perfect Bedfellows: Tracey Emin on Francis Bacon
    Features July 17, 2015
    Tracey Emin, Simon Grant

    Perfect Bedfellows: Tracey Emin on Francis Bacon

    How To See a Sunset
    Features July 15, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How To See a Sunset

    It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation
    Features July 6, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation

    Sheila Heti Interviews John Currin on the Fun, Beautiful Things
    Features June 24, 2015
    Sheila Heti

    Sheila Heti Interviews John Currin on the Fun, Beautiful Things

    What Is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?
    Features June 15, 2015
    Orit Gat

    What Is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?

    Wayne Baerwaldt on ACAD’s Dissolution of His Director/Curator Position: “It’s an Issue of Public Trust”
    Features June 8, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Wayne Baerwaldt on ACAD’s Dissolution of His Director/Curator Position: “It’s an Issue of Public Trust”

    To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”
    Features May 12, 2015
    Kaegan Sparks

    To Cut and To Swipe: Understanding Hito Steyerl Through “HOW NOT TO BE SEEN”

    The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual
    Reviews May 1, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    The Troubling Thrill of Invernomuto’s Counter-Ritual

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
    Features April 27, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
    Features April 16, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
    Features April 8, 2015
    Carol Strickland

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame

    The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis
    Features April 7, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    The Alchemist: A Studio Visit with Sadie Weis

    Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE
    Features March 27, 2015
    Cliff Eyland

    Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE

    Interview: The Difficulty in Distilling Suzy Lake
    Features March 23, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: The Difficulty in Distilling Suzy Lake

    The Deadening Gaze of Tal R
    Reviews March 3, 2015
    Mitch Speed

    The Deadening Gaze of Tal R

    How to Start an Art School
    Features February 10, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Start an Art School

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance
    Features, Reviews February 4, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance

    Translation & Transcription: A Conversation with Shelagh Keeley
    Features December 23, 2014
    Ben Portis

    Translation & Transcription: A Conversation with Shelagh Keeley

    Brooklyn Is Everything: Artworlds Apart in a Gentrified Borough
    Reviews December 8, 2014
    Mark Mann

    Brooklyn Is Everything: Artworlds Apart in a Gentrified Borough

    Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan
    Features, Reviews December 1, 2014
    Wojciech Olejnik

    Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan

    How to Survive International Art: Notes from the Poverty Jetset
    Features December 1, 2014
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Survive International Art: Notes from the Poverty Jetset

    The Militant Image
    Reviews October 15, 2014
    Clint Burnham

    The Militant Image

    How to Write About Contemporary Art
    Features October 15, 2014
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Write About Contemporary Art

    Interview: Ben Davis on Marxism, Criticism, and Contemporary Art
    Features October 15, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Ben Davis on Marxism, Criticism, and Contemporary Art

    Sign up for the Momus newsletter to hear about new publishing & podcast episodes, open calls, upcoming residencies, talks, and more.

    This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.