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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Momus Video Series: Orit Gat’s “If It Looks Like Zeitgeist, It Might be Anxiety: Art After the Internet”
On April 19, 2016, Momus presented a talk by award-winning art critic and former Momus contributing editor Orit Gat titled “If It Looks Like Zeitgeist, It Might be Anxiety: Art After…
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“How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism
Art criticism doesn’t often speculate on the value of pithy maxims such as ‘there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But when an article…
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Any Plans After the Exhibition?
The image above is an installation shot from When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013. It was a recreation of Harald Szeeman’s famous exhibition…
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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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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
In Venice, last spring, over the requisite Spritz, I met with the London and New York-based critic Orit Gat to discuss the possibility of…
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Momus “Best Of”: Vol. 1
It’s been a good ten months. Since October 2014, Momus has quickly become a trusted reference for those wishing to reflect on contemporary art at…
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#Longform and #Longreads Journalism: Its Reality and Potential
Amazon’s recent announcement that it will begin paying authors who self-publish on the retailer’s various Kindle platforms according to the number of pages users…
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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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