New Forms for New Crises: The Need for a New Ecological Representation
In his recent polemic Against the Anthropocene, art historian T. J. Demos calls for a shift in the language we use to think through…
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Does the Sublime Know Change? Updating Landscape for the Anthropocene
The notion that we live in the Anthropocene, an era defined by human influence on our planet, bestows a new gravity upon representations of…
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A Parallel Landscape: Ned Pratt’s Abstract Sublime
In Canadian art’s long and unswift adaptation of an avant-garde, landscape painting yielded to an important reduction, an essentializing that rendered place ancillary, and…
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Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art
Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…
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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…
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Alien vs. Predator: The Critic in Three Recent Films
“What has to happen in someone’s life for them to end up becoming a critic?” asks Michael Keaton’s desperate, contemptuous Riggan Thomson in Alejandro…
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