The Past Imperfect of Jutta Koether
For many years, Jutta Koether drained blood and love from the color red. In her paintings, that untouchable hue became atmosphere for a genus…
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While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard
For the first time in the history of the São Paulo Biennial, the turnstiles disappeared. Attendees carried no tickets and sported no bracelets. The…
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Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”
The looping ladies and lipsticked cigarettes of Sojourner Truth Parsons’s past pictures give way here to a litter of pups amidst polychromatic explosions sopping…
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The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof
The word “angst”’ in German carries a certain weight – as most German words do – that is less evident in its English appropriation:…
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An Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016)
Annie Pootoogook was from the Arctic near the North Pole. Her community is called Kinngait in Inuktitut – the language of Inuit people – and…
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The Ellipses of Eva Hesse: Reading Her Collected Diaries
Eva Hesse’s collected diaries begin at the end. In the book’s last sentence, editor Barry Rosen thanks Hesse’s friend Gioia Timpanelli for discovering the…
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Wifredo Lam: The Albissola Years
It was his spirit of collaboration and friendship that first brought my father to the Italian coastal town of Albissola, just west of Genoa….
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Simone Leigh’s Powerful Meditation on Race and Healthcare Suffers, Ironically, from Lack of Access
Within intimate relationships, symptoms of passive aggression range from mild irritation to buckling torpor. When the relationship is between entire populations and corrupted institutions,…
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“Embarrassment is a Challenge”: The Queasy Vulnerability of Maria Lassnig
In 1972 a curious awards ceremony took place in the cramped Manhattan studio of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig. Tired of being ignored as an…
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Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16
As we near our two-year anniversary, and summer draws to a close, Momus takes a moment to reflect on the last twelve months of…
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