Freeing Latin American Art from Eurocentric Curating
A dense black explosion looms, static in the museum’s center. Nuclear Fungus (2007), by Argentinean artist León Ferrari, sculpturally simulates the smoke caused by…
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“Seen Anything Good?” The Burden of Biennial Excess
How much art can the human mind realistically absorb from a mega-exhibition? I’m not talking about superstar retrospectives or major surveys – mainstays of…
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“Speaking from a Wound”: Jesse Darling on Faith, Crisis, and Refusal
Over the past year, I’ve had considerable difficulty maintaining my faith in art. In the short version of this introduction to an interview, I…
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Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen
The impulse to grieve publicly is a measure of our turbulent times. We know, lately, the need to share a collective sadness. However, before…
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Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity
Type “Ed Atkins” into Google, and you’ll shortly come face to face with an asshole: not the artist himself – though his smiling visage…
Read MoreMomus: The Podcast (Episode 2): The Artist Residency
The artist residency has risen to the top of the artworld’s global economy and increasing professionalization, becoming one of the key features of contemporary…
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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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Darkling Futures and Desert Hangover at the New SITE Sante Fe
Two brand-new, chunky metal triangles jut out and join above the glassy entrance of the black cinderblock edifice that houses the recently-renovated SITE Santa…
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Against Tidy Memory: Anti-Fascist Memorials and the Horror of Kitsch
Like a catchy Schlager tune, rightwing populism in Germany has matured into a countrywide plague. Historical guilt, which had until recently stalled the nationalism…
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Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism
The last time Leonard Cohen appeared on her radio show in 2006, Fresh Air host Terry Gross told him she wanted to play “one…
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