Season 5, Episode 4: Raimundas Malašauskas
Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lithuanian curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas resigned as curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale,…
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel
In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in…
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Season 5 Episode 2: Harry Dodge
In this episode, artist Harry Dodge reads from My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (Penguin Press, 2020). Dodge, a…
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Season 5 Episode 1: Emmanuel Iduma
In the first episode of Season 5, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Nigerian art writer Emmanuel Iduma, who reads from “Mileage from Here: Nine…
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Season 4 Episode 9: Kristian Vistrup Madsen
In the penultimate episode of Season 4 – across which Momus: The Podcast has been engaging writers on the genesis and reception of a…
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Season 4 Episode 8: Muna Mire & Tourmaline
This episode gets a jump on summer with artist and filmmaker Tourmaline and writer and producer Muna Mire. In conversation, they discuss Mire’s profile of Toumaline in…
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Season 4 Episode 7: Nora N. Khan on “Within, Below, and Alongside”
“A school will change you, and it teaches you as much about how people will interpret you, misunderstand and dismiss you, as it will…
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Season 4 Episode 6: Alexandra Stock on “The Privileged, Violent Stunt”
Lauren Wetmore interviews Swiss American curator and writer Alexandra Stock about her scathing critique of Christophe Büchel’s 2019 Venice Biennale project Barca Nostra. Published that…
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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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Season 4 Episode 4: Léuli Eshrāghi on “tagatavāsā”
In episode 4, Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi discusses “tagatavāsā,” a text centered on Eshrāghi’s grandmother’s art practice that interweaves Indigenous language with the vernacular of…
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