“I Think I’m Really Enjoying Painting”: Margaux Williamson’s New Work
Every five or six years, the painter Margaux Williamson quits painting. In these moments, she thinks she might not go back. But something always…
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Black Lives Matter: Momus’s Commitment to the Movement Against Racial Inequality
Dear Readers, This has been a time of strife, uncertainty, and trauma for many. Before we can begin to celebrate the changes that emerge…
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Artists in Isolation: Instagram, Leave Us to Our Darkness
Sometime that feels pretty recent, the internet turned into an actual talent show. Social media always felt performative, and now, with TikTok ascendant and…
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It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art
When we meet on St. Catherine Street in Montreal on a chilly Thursday afternoon in October, Bridget Moser tells me she has recently been…
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“We Need More Voices”: Introducing the Momus Emerging Critics Residency
In late August 2019, Momus will be launching its inaugural Momus Emerging Critics Residency, in collaboration with Montreal’s Concordia University. We’re incredibly excited to…
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Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl
Remember the “long tail”? It was the theory that digital technology would redistribute demand for cultural products, away from a few empowered hit-makers and…
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The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive
Gazing out from a large photograph on the second floor of Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, Althea Thauberger wears a yellow dress, pearl earrings,…
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Maria Hupfield Returns to the Beginning
Maria Hupfield is a Brooklyn-based artist from Wasauksing First Nation, an Anishinabek community on Parry Island, five hours north of Toronto along Georgian Bay….
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Joseph Tisiga Unsettles Exoticism with Mythic Force at Parisian Laundry
Joseph Tisiga paints people in odd situations, and I keep wondering, how do they feel? The Yukon artist’s characters rarely show much emotion, even…
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White Like Me: Encountering Divya Mehra’s “You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist”
It doesn’t matter what you think you know about Divya Mehra’s You have to tell Them, i’m not a Racist, currently at Georgia Scherman…
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