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    Directly to the Adversary: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at CAM St. Louis
    Reviews June 11, 2026
    Farrah Karapetian

    Directly to the Adversary: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at CAM St. Louis

    New Geographies of the Sacred: Lines That World a River at Nottingham Contemporary
    Reviews May 21, 2026
    Najrin Islam

    New Geographies of the Sacred: Lines That World a River at Nottingham Contemporary

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles
    Features May 7, 2026
    Kate Wolf

    A Trace of the Present in the Future: On Sam Sweet’s Invisible Los Angeles

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain
    June 26–27, 2026
    PHI
    Montreal

    Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain

    To Build and Sustain: Publishing Roundtable
    June 27, 2026 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
    PHI
    Montreal

    To Build and Sustain: Publishing Roundtable

    Momus Arts Journalism Residency

    Residency June 10–July 25, 2024

    Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency May 15–June 4, 2023

    Because my metier is black … (after Toni Morrison)

    August 1–March 19, 2022

    Contact

    Writing Relations, Making Futurities: Global Indigenous Art Criticism Residency

    Residency February 7-11, 2022 and March 14-18, 2022

    Momus Emerging Critics Residency 2021

    Residency August 9–20, 2021

    Momus Critical Writing Fellowship 2025

    Fellowship January 1–December 1, 2025
    Between Witness and Fabulation: Joseph Tisiga and Merray Michael Mina in Conversation
    Talk March 2, 2024 2:00 PM
    Bradley Ertaskiran
    Montreal

    Between Witness and Fabulation: Joseph Tisiga and Merray Michael Mina in Conversation

    Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio
    Reviews January 22, 2026
    Luke Urbain

    Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio

    Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation
    Reviews January 15, 2026
    Sky Goodden

    Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation

    History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe
    Reviews January 8, 2026
    Ceci Moss

    History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery
    Reviews November 26, 2025
    Andrew Witt

    Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery

    Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements
    Reviews November 20, 2025
    Emma Fiona Jones

    Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements

    Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada
    Reviews October 30, 2025
    Alexandra Nordstrom

    Learning to Move Differently: Nadia Myre at the National Gallery of Canada

    Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young
    Reviews October 23, 2025
    Caroline Picard

    Fellow Members of an Unfolding Constellation: Leilah Babirye at the de Young

    Tatum Howey

    Tatum Howey

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating
    Reviews September 11, 2025
    Katie Lawson

    “Staying with the Trouble” at the Helsinki Biennial: Challenges of Environmental Curating

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    Features, Reviews September 4, 2025
    Aaron Katzeman

    Jeffrey Gibson Saves America

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present
    Features August 21, 2025
    Nasrin Himada

    Programming the Diaspora: On How the Moving Image Shapes the Present

    “I Always Wanted to Participate”: In Conversation with Vijay Masharani
    Features July 25, 2025
    Mimi Howard

    “I Always Wanted to Participate”: In Conversation with Vijay Masharani

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair
    Features July 17, 2025
    Najrin Islam

    A Note on Omission: Navigating Institutional Censorship and the Need for Repair

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority
    Features July 10, 2025
    Gervais Marsh

    The Close-Up Reveals Nothing: How Deborah-Joyce Holman Complicates Interiority

    Gervais Marsh

    Gervais Marsh

    The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll
    Reviews May 29, 2025
    Qing Sheng

    The Breathing Field of Marlon Kroll

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance
    Reviews April 17, 2025
    Brian Karl

    Dreams Being Real: EDELO’s Frontline Resistance

    For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism
    Features April 4, 2025
    Erin F. O'Leary

    For Pleasure and Pictures: Robert Andy Coombs, His Critics, and the Language of Ableism

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard
    Features, Reviews February 13, 2025
    Diana SeoHyung

    Ritual Maintenance: Edges and Encounters with Tina Girouard

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto
    Features February 5, 2025
    Tiana Reid

    Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

    When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel
    Features January 30, 2025
    Jackson Davidow

    When Women Run the World: Gail Thacker’s Queer Feminist Marvel

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian
    Reviews December 12, 2024
    Claire Voon

    Swelling Time: Sam Tam Ham Probes the Prime Meridian

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
    Features November 12, 2024
    Sky Goodden

    Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting

    Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC
    Reviews November 4, 2024
    David Ayala-Alfonso

    Spaces of Doubt: Ursula Biemann at MUAC

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up
    Features October 28, 2024
    Napatsi Folger

    Dempsey Bob is Waking Up

    Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas
    Reviews October 4, 2024
    Ignacio Szmulewicz R.

    Unplugged Games: Poetry as Resistance in Yanko González Cangas

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars
    Features September 27, 2024
    Gyula Muskovics

    Invasion from Mars: On the Charged Personae of Shelly Mars

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past
    Reviews September 5, 2024
    Julie Weitz

    Sidestepping Violence: The German Pavilion’s Failure to See the Present in the Past

    Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial
    Features, Reviews August 15, 2024
    Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

    Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

    Paul Chan’s Breathers Turns Away
    Reviews August 8, 2024
    Annette LePique

    Paul Chan’s Breathers Turns Away

    Goodbye to Berlin
    Features, Reviews July 31, 2024
    Sholem Krishtalka

    Goodbye to Berlin

    Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory
    Reviews June 28, 2024
    Michael Dango

    Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory

    Radical Looking: Newly Seeing Art With My Baby
    Features May 30, 2024
    Maya Mackrandilal

    Radical Looking: Newly Seeing Art With My Baby

    Loosening the Stays
    Features May 15, 2024
    Claudia La Rocco

    Loosening the Stays

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”
    Features, Reviews April 26, 2024
    Terry Nguyen

    A Feeling Between the Lines: The Anxious Influence of Agnes Martin’s “Writings”

    On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen
    Reviews April 17, 2024
    Miciah Hussey

    On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen

    Embraced by an Amniotic Earth: Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea
    Reviews April 8, 2024
    Jessica Simmons-Reid

    Embraced by an Amniotic Earth: Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea

    Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects
    Reviews April 4, 2024
    Kirsty Robertson

    Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects

    Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence
    Features February 29, 2024
    Kira Xonorika

    Do You Believe in Aliens?: Re-Indigenizing the Algorithmic Tropes of Intelligence

    Abstraction, Legibility, and Desire in the Work of Brenda Draney
    Features, Reviews February 14, 2024
    Lois Taylor Biggs

    Abstraction, Legibility, and Desire in the Work of Brenda Draney

    Magical/Market Thinking: Reflecting on the Rise and Fall of Artscape
    Features February 2, 2024
    Caitlin Jones

    Magical/Market Thinking: Reflecting on the Rise and Fall of Artscape

    When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum
    Reviews January 19, 2024
    Harley Wong

    When Feminisms and Futurisms Collide: Judy Chicago and Puppies Puppies at New Museum

    They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith
    Reviews December 12, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    They Made Him Gray: The Whitney Museum Dims Artist and Mystic Harry Smith

    From Cinematic to Static: Isa Genzken’s 75/75 Retrospective in Berlin
    Reviews November 14, 2023
    M. Folescu

    From Cinematic to Static: Isa Genzken’s 75/75 Retrospective in Berlin

    Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print
    Features October 16, 2023
    Cassie Packard

    Tracking the Sapphic Social Imaginaries: Lesbian Art in Print

    Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present
    Reviews September 20, 2023
    Ruth Gebreyesus

    Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present

    “A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color
    Features September 8, 2023
    Simon Wu

    “A Multiculti Blitzkrieg”: On the Ascendance of the Curator of Color

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
    Features, Reviews August 22, 2023
    Elisabeth Nicula

    We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead

    The Polyphonous Calls for Land (and Land Back) of Manuel Axel Strain
    Features, Reviews August 5, 2023
    Leo Cocar

    The Polyphonous Calls for Land (and Land Back) of Manuel Axel Strain

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject
    Features July 28, 2023
    Doreen A. Rios

    Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject

    Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto
    Reviews June 1, 2023
    Tiana Reid

    Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA Toronto

    Working It
    Features, Reviews May 25, 2023
    Kate Wolf

    Working It

    Bad Reviews
    Features, Reviews May 2, 2023
    Elisabeth Nicula

    Bad Reviews

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang
    Features April 28, 2023
    Catalina Ouyang, Summer Kim Lee

    Finding One Another in Misrecognition: Summer Kim Lee Meets Catalina Ouyang

    Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents
    Features, Reviews April 12, 2023
    Jenny Wu

    Solitary: Collective Authorship and its Discontents

    Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”
    Reviews February 23, 2023
    Alex Borkowski

    Violence and Vibes Haunt Museum London’s “Spectral”

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer
    Features February 16, 2023
    Eliza Swann

    Failure in Infinitives: A Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
    Features January 31, 2023
    Catherine G. Wagley

    All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community

    A Distance That I Cannot Seem to Close
    Features November 8, 2022
    Diana SeoHyung

    A Distance That I Cannot Seem to Close

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen
    Features October 26, 2022
    Catherine G. Wagley

    On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen

    How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kotlár
    Features October 3, 2022
    Denisa Tomková

    How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kotlár

    Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale
    Features, Reviews September 23, 2022
    Julie Weitz

    Relocating Trauma at the Venice Biennale

    Rearrange: Torkwase Dyson and Black Feminist Breathing
    Features August 3, 2022
    Camille Bacon

    Rearrange: Torkwase Dyson and Black Feminist Breathing

    Against Nations
    Features, Reviews July 8, 2022
    Jayne Wilkinson

    Against Nations

    Where Do Dreams Live?
    Features, Reviews June 3, 2022
    Siera Hyte

    Where Do Dreams Live?

    Hypoxia and Hope
    Features May 26, 2022
    Kamayani Sharma

    Hypoxia and Hope

    A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics
    Reviews April 12, 2022
    Jocelyn Parr

    A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics

    Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic
    Features, Reviews March 17, 2022
    Saelan Twerdy

    Plague Medicine: Reading Avocado Ibuprofen in a Pandemic

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy
    Features March 3, 2022
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    “It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy

    On Whiteness
    Features February 24, 2022
    Simon Wu

    On Whiteness

    The Bodies That Scramble India’s “Constitutions”
    Reviews February 9, 2022
    Tammer El-Sheikh

    The Bodies That Scramble India’s “Constitutions”

    Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial
    Reviews November 23, 2021
    Laura August

    Across This Fraught Place: Survivance at the 2021 Texas Biennial

    An Aesthetic of Enough
    Reviews November 4, 2021
    Jayne Wilkinson

    An Aesthetic of Enough

    Situating Great Ocean Art in Canadian Museums
    Features October 29, 2021
    Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi

    Situating Great Ocean Art in Canadian Museums

    The Capaciousness of Blackness: An Interview with Dawit. L. Petros
    Features October 21, 2021
    Letticia Cosbert Miller

    The Capaciousness of Blackness: An Interview with Dawit. L. Petros

    More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History
    Reviews October 7, 2021
    Melissa Lo

    More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History

    Cameron Rowland’s Property Relations
    Features August 16, 2021
    Simon Wu

    Cameron Rowland’s Property Relations

    Haubitz+Zoche Frames India’s Iconic Movie Theaters—and Absents Them
    Features, Reviews July 1, 2021
    Deepa Bhasthi

    Haubitz+Zoche Frames India’s Iconic Movie Theaters—and Absents Them

    Ambivalent Transparency: Artists Go on and “Off the Record” at Guggenheim
    Reviews June 25, 2021
    Max Pearl

    Ambivalent Transparency: Artists Go on and “Off the Record” at Guggenheim

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone
    Features June 3, 2021
    Erica Dawn Lyle

    The Voicemail Interview: Erica Dawn Lyle and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Phone

    “I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung
    Features May 17, 2021
    Jarrett Earnest

    “I Left This for a Reason”: An Interview with Amy Fung

    “I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet”: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting
    Features April 30, 2021
    Jason Stopa

    “I Don’t Go to Crisis Just Yet”: Four Painters Discuss the Rise of Figurative Painting

    Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston
    Features, Reviews April 20, 2021
    Laura August

    Anna Mayer Reconstitutes Loss in Houston

    Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”
    Features, Reviews April 7, 2021
    Simon Wu

    Ron Athey’s “Far-Right Flirtations”

    See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind
    Features April 1, 2021
    Lauren DiGiulio

    See You on the Other Side: Matthew Wong’s Vistas of the Mind

    With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner
    Features, Reviews March 12, 2021
    Gracie Hadland

    With No Type of Story: Touring the Untied Mind of Pippa Garner

    The Untenability of the Unethical Museum
    Features October 30, 2020
    Catherine G. Wagley

    The Untenability of the Unethical Museum

    The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe
    Features, Reviews October 22, 2020
    Saelan Twerdy

    The Anxious “I”: Walter Scott’s Autofictional Universe

    Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing
    Reviews October 9, 2020
    Kristian Vistrup Madsen

    Ambera Wellmann’s Big Swing

    “Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit’”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”
    Features September 28, 2020
    Ben Davis

    “Proudly Broken and Refusing to ‘Fit’”: Legacy Russell on “Glitch Feminism”

    “As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge
    Features September 17, 2020
    Andrew Woolbright

    “As a Matter of Survival”: Dark Study on Making Art School a Radical Refuge

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill
    Features August 18, 2020
    Andreas Petrossiants

    Between the Gallery and the Street: An Interview with Vanessa Thill

    “A Planetary Expenditure”: Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance
    Features August 6, 2020
    Jarrett Earnest

    “A Planetary Expenditure”: Ensayos on Learning Across a Distance

    Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India
    Reviews June 30, 2020
    Kamayani Sharma

    Blood and Paper: Zarina and the Currencies of Violence in India

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil
    Features May 29, 2020
    Saelan Twerdy

    The Internet is “Never Peaceful, Never Fair, Never Good”: An Interview with Joanne McNeil

    The Lake and The Lake: Against Crisis as Narrative
    Reviews March 3, 2020
    Asa Mendelsohn

    The Lake and The Lake: Against Crisis as Narrative

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl
    Features January 27, 2020
    Jarrett Earnest

    Detective Stories About Feelings: The Driving Force of Peter Schjeldahl

    An Arch and a Gulf: When Public Art Falls Short of Social Reality
    Features January 24, 2020
    Ken Lum

    An Arch and a Gulf: When Public Art Falls Short of Social Reality

    It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art
    Features December 2, 2019
    Mark Mann

    It’s Okay to Laugh: The Political Turn in Bridget Moser’s Prop Art

    John Boskovich Steers His Own “Recovery”
    Reviews November 22, 2019
    Gracie Hadland

    John Boskovich Steers His Own “Recovery”

    The Eerie Optimization of “Self-Care” Decor
    Reviews October 10, 2019
    Alison Hugill

    The Eerie Optimization of “Self-Care” Decor

    Context, Tokenism, and Trans Solidarity: An Interview with Dan Cardinal McCartney
    Features September 27, 2019
    Anj Fermor

    Context, Tokenism, and Trans Solidarity: An Interview with Dan Cardinal McCartney

    The Thread of the Weave: Meaning from Material at Oakville Galleries
    Reviews September 17, 2019
    Vince Rozario

    The Thread of the Weave: Meaning from Material at Oakville Galleries

    A Crit of the Crit
    Features September 12, 2019
    Josh Thorpe

    A Crit of the Crit

    Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting
    Features, Reviews August 1, 2019
    Joseph Henry

    Love and Loneliness: Queering Modernisms in Figurative Painting

    How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect
    Features July 27, 2019
    Ben Davis

    How Protest Works Now: Understanding “The Tear Gas Biennial” and its Historic Effect

    Where Do We Go From Here? Dubious Wealth and Ethical Funding
    Features July 5, 2019
    Ben Davis

    Where Do We Go From Here? Dubious Wealth and Ethical Funding

    Free Your Mind, or Else: “Acid Communism” and Contemporary Art’s Futurism
    Features, Reviews June 12, 2019
    Saelan Twerdy

    Free Your Mind, or Else: “Acid Communism” and Contemporary Art’s Futurism

    “Where Does Art Get To Live?”: A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke
    Features May 30, 2019
    Anique Jordan, Michèle Pearson Clarke

    “Where Does Art Get To Live?”: A Conversation Between Anique Jordan and Michèle Pearson Clarke

    “This Reductive Brave New World”: Andrea Dworkin’s Painful Relevance
    Features, Reviews May 15, 2019
    Wendy Vogel

    “This Reductive Brave New World”: Andrea Dworkin’s Painful Relevance

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
    Features April 1, 2019
    Catherine G. Wagley

    “But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital

    Deeper Wounds: Nep Sidhu and Aestheticizing Trauma
    Reviews March 28, 2019
    Vince Rozario

    Deeper Wounds: Nep Sidhu and Aestheticizing Trauma

    “So Many Glaring Absences That Were Very Loud to Me”: An Interview with Titus Kaphar
    Features March 27, 2019
    Terence Trouillot

    “So Many Glaring Absences That Were Very Loud to Me”: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

    Can Words “Bounce”? A Complicated Resilience on Vancouver Island
    Reviews February 22, 2019
    Casey Beal

    Can Words “Bounce”? A Complicated Resilience on Vancouver Island

    Sanded Edges: Pierre Huyghe Turns Polite at the Serpentine
    Reviews February 1, 2019
    Kanad Chakrabarti

    Sanded Edges: Pierre Huyghe Turns Polite at the Serpentine

    What’s Wrong with a Fairly Good Biennial?
    Features, Reviews January 16, 2019
    Mitch Speed

    What’s Wrong with a Fairly Good Biennial?

    Conspiracy, Discounted Histories, and Nostalgia at the Met Breuer
    Reviews December 17, 2018
    Tausif Noor

    Conspiracy, Discounted Histories, and Nostalgia at the Met Breuer

    How a Dynasty Defines Taste: The Deep Roots of Middle Eastern Abstraction
    Features, Reviews December 12, 2018
    Maru Pabón

    How a Dynasty Defines Taste: The Deep Roots of Middle Eastern Abstraction

    Branding the Anthropocene: Canada’s Art Institutions Privilege the Artificial
    Reviews November 23, 2018
    Mark Cheetham

    Branding the Anthropocene: Canada’s Art Institutions Privilege the Artificial

    The Curtain’s Part: Confronting Abstraction’s Complacency in Unquiet Times
    Reviews November 7, 2018
    Caitlin Chaisson

    The Curtain’s Part: Confronting Abstraction’s Complacency in Unquiet Times

    Wealth and Lust in Monaco: The Sensuous Illusions of Tom Wesselmann
    Reviews August 7, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    Wealth and Lust in Monaco: The Sensuous Illusions of Tom Wesselmann

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads
    Features, Reviews July 27, 2018
    Saelan Twerdy

    Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel
    Features July 13, 2018
    Jon Davies, Joshua Schwebel

    Traumatizing the Museum: An Interview with Joshua Schwebel

    Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim
    Reviews June 29, 2018
    Elliat Albrecht

    Chinese Futures for American Eyes at the Guggenheim

    Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art
    Reviews June 27, 2018
    Juan José Santos

    Behind the Curtain: Beatriz González’s Political-Decorative Art

    Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice
    Reviews June 23, 2018
    Alison Hugill

    Cruising for Sex in the Garden of Eden: Architecture and Desire in Venice

    Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl
    Reviews June 19, 2018
    Mark Mann

    Me For You: The Modest Directives of Ho Tam and Rainer Ganahl

    Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA
    Reviews May 24, 2018
    Tausif Noor

    Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern
    Features, Reviews May 4, 2018
    Mitch Speed

    What is to be Learned, What is to be Done? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Remai Modern

    How to Stop Working Better
    Features April 9, 2018
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Stop Working Better

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde
    Features March 26, 2018
    Ben Davis

    An Always Fractured Order: Hal Foster’s Unromantic Avant-Garde

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing
    Features March 21, 2018
    Aruna D'Souza

    Worst-Case Scenarios: Contemporary Art’s #Metoo Handwringing

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)
    Features March 13, 2018
    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson

    America Meredith, Lori Blondeau, and Raven Chacon Remember James Luna (1950-2018)

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit
    Reviews February 19, 2018
    Eva Díaz

    Faulty Infrastructure: New Orleans’s Triennial Can’t Commit

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)
    Features January 31, 2018
    Raymond Gervais

    The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)

    From Artworld Punchline to Real-World Parable: Ruben Östlund’s “The Square”
    Features, Reviews January 23, 2018
    Ulysses Castellanos

    From Artworld Punchline to Real-World Parable: Ruben Östlund’s “The Square”

    Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity
    Reviews December 15, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Crocodile Tears: Ed Atkins and the Crisis of Pathetic Masculinity

    How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia
    Reviews November 3, 2017
    Jordan Amirkhani

    How (Not) To Retrospect: Beverly Buchanan in Brooklyn and Georgia

    Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?
    Reviews October 4, 2017
    Kanad Chakrabarti

    Do Androids Dream of Representative Art?

    How to Act Ethically in Art
    Features July 28, 2017
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Act Ethically in Art

    White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA
    Features June 29, 2017
    Aruna D'Souza

    White Space, Black Spectacle at MASS MoCA

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”
    Reviews May 12, 2017
    Wendy Vogel

    “Science Truth” and Fearless Feminism in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Civic Radar”

    Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire
    Reviews March 24, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire

    The Double-Bind in Raqs Media Collective’s Institutional Critique
    Features March 15, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    The Double-Bind in Raqs Media Collective’s Institutional Critique

    Where the Party Is: Mark Leckey’s Vernacular, Autobiographical Tour Through Pop
    Reviews February 14, 2017
    Sam Korman

    Where the Party Is: Mark Leckey’s Vernacular, Autobiographical Tour Through Pop

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention
    Features February 13, 2017
    Ben Davis

    Interrupting Business as Usual: A Close Reading of MoMA’s Muslim Ban Intervention

    Cassils and the Complicated Rhetoric of the Hero
    Features February 9, 2017
    Emily Vey Duke

    Cassils and the Complicated Rhetoric of the Hero

    Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation
    Reviews February 3, 2017
    Tausif Noor

    Drones, by Design: Mahwish Chishty and the Politics of Representation

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty
    Features January 31, 2017
    Mitch Speed

    The Many Faces of Brian O’Doherty

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s
    Reviews January 26, 2017
    Alison Hugill

    “Liberation and Consumption”: Surveying Korean Art in the ’90s

    Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal
    Features January 24, 2017
    Kimberlee Córdova

    Jill Magid’s Post-Truth Diamond Proposal

    The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan
    Features, Reviews December 21, 2016
    Joni Low

    The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”
    Reviews December 8, 2016
    Catherine G. Wagley

    Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”

    Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms
    Reviews November 30, 2016
    Zoë Chan

    Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard
    Reviews October 13, 2016
    Juan José Santos

    While the World Burns: The 32nd São Paulo Biennial’s Political Disregard

    Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present
    Reviews September 15, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16
    Features August 25, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16

    Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto
    Features August 9, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto

    Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent
    Features August 4, 2016
    Saelan Twerdy

    Who Was Edmund Alleyn? Rediscovering a Mercurial and Untimely Talent

    “If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
    Features July 20, 2016
    Raél Jero Salley

    “If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”

    “Please Hold Your Questions”: A Culture of Asking Questions as Criticism and Authority
    Features May 30, 2016
    Renan Laru-An

    “Please Hold Your Questions”: A Culture of Asking Questions as Criticism and Authority

    Vancouver Art Gallery’s “MashUp” Too Limited in its Understanding
    Reviews May 11, 2016
    Zoë Chan

    Vancouver Art Gallery’s “MashUp” Too Limited in its Understanding

    “Accessibility” and the New Hoser Aesthetics
    Features April 27, 2016
    Lee Henderson

    “Accessibility” and the New Hoser Aesthetics

    Eeriness: Tracing an Unquiet Tradition in British Landscape Art
    Features April 20, 2016
    Robert MacFarlane

    Eeriness: Tracing an Unquiet Tradition in British Landscape Art

    Regionalism Vs. Provincialism: Agitating Against Critical Neglect in Artworld Peripheries
    Features April 18, 2016
    Amy Zion, Cora Fisher

    Regionalism Vs. Provincialism: Agitating Against Critical Neglect in Artworld Peripheries

    Interview: Allison Hrabluik on the Unscripted Magic of “The Splits”
    Features March 29, 2016
    Rosemary Heather

    Interview: Allison Hrabluik on the Unscripted Magic of “The Splits”

    Fantasies Both Light and Dark in Veteran Mavericks Eldon Garnet and Max Dean
    Reviews March 24, 2016
    Ben Portis

    Fantasies Both Light and Dark in Veteran Mavericks Eldon Garnet and Max Dean

    What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis
    Reviews March 16, 2016
    Owen Duffy

    What Should Art “Do”? The Eccentrics’ Vital Nonsense in a Time of Crisis

    In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend
    Reviews March 14, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    In Search of Himself: Sky Glabush’s Mimetic Practice Drifts Into the Neo-Modernist Trend

    To Cloak or Reveal: Ryan Gander on the Question That Dogs Him
    Features February 29, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    To Cloak or Reveal: Ryan Gander on the Question That Dogs Him

    The Art of Protest
    Features February 22, 2016
    Nina Power

    The Art of Protest

    “I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
    Features February 16, 2016
    Sky Goodden

    “I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”

    “How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism
    Features February 2, 2016
    Dick Averns

    “How to Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study in Art Criticism

    Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?
    Features January 14, 2016
    Ben Davis

    Do You Have to Be Rich to Make It as an Artist?

    Any Plans After the Exhibition?
    Features January 4, 2016
    Orit Gat

    Any Plans After the Exhibition?

    Why Can’t We Talk About Class and Art in Canada?
    Features December 18, 2015
    RM Vaughan

    Why Can’t We Talk About Class and Art in Canada?

    How to Art Fair
    Features December 3, 2015
    Andrew Berardini

    How to Art Fair

    The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo
    Reviews November 23, 2015
    Liz Park

    The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo

    Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station
    Features October 27, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Public Art Has to Be Art First and Public Second: A Conversation with Stuart Reid on Union Station

    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair
    Features October 21, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Our Mutual Desire for Critical Change: Momus and Feature Art Fair

    Interview: The Compressed Violence of Dana Schutz
    Features October 19, 2015
    Benjamin Bruneau

    Interview: The Compressed Violence of Dana Schutz

    Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube
    Reviews October 1, 2015
    Adam Barbu

    Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube

    What is the Museum of the Future?
    Features September 29, 2015
    Chris Dercon

    What is the Museum of the Future?

    Contemporary Art Writing in Mexico: The Intractable and Necessary Issue of Corruption
    Features September 23, 2015
    Kimberlee Córdova

    Contemporary Art Writing in Mexico: The Intractable and Necessary Issue of Corruption

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics
    Features September 8, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    First Nations Art and the Matter of Its Politics

    Grey Skies Over Melancholy Bay: Creative Antagonism and Cultural Preservation on the West Coast
    Reviews August 19, 2015
    Lee Plested

    Grey Skies Over Melancholy Bay: Creative Antagonism and Cultural Preservation on the West Coast

    Chantal Pontbriand Will Not Curate Your Biennial: On “Demo-Graphics,” and Its Potential to Reignite Toronto
    Features July 13, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Chantal Pontbriand Will Not Curate Your Biennial: On “Demo-Graphics,” and Its Potential to Reignite Toronto

    This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web
    Reviews July 9, 2015
    Saelan Twerdy

    This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web

    What Is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?
    Features June 15, 2015
    Orit Gat

    What Is an Art Critic Doing at an Art Fair?

    A Future Never Sought: Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale
    Reviews May 26, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    A Future Never Sought: Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”
    Features April 27, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    The Suffering Body of 1993: Whatever Happened to the “Abject”

    Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz
    Features April 27, 2015
    Fabien Maltais-Bayda

    Parsing Re-Performance and Institutional Critique in the Choreography of Sasha Kleinplatz

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography
    Features April 16, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Stephen Bulger Reflects on Twenty Years of Missteps, Success, and Advancing Form in Photography

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
    Features April 8, 2015
    Carol Strickland

    Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame

    The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery
    Reviews March 16, 2015
    David Balzer

    The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery

    “What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon
    Features March 10, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    “What Instruments Have We?”: A Conversation with Emily Roysdon

    Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East
    Features, Reviews February 18, 2015
    Matthew Carver

    Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Legacy and Deviation of Relational Aesthetics in the East

    Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose
    Reviews February 9, 2015
    Clint Burnham

    Luc Tuymans Dares Painting to Lose

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance
    Features, Reviews February 4, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    Ryan McNamara and the Afterlife of Performance

    Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art
    Features January 14, 2015
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art

    Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is This Cynicism?
    Reviews January 8, 2015
    Joseph Henry

    Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is This Cynicism?

    Year in Review: The Women Represented
    Features December 31, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    Year in Review: The Women Represented

    Identity After the Internet: Three Berlin Exhibitions in Search of Commonality
    Features, Reviews December 22, 2014
    Aaron Bogart

    Identity After the Internet: Three Berlin Exhibitions in Search of Commonality

    The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt
    Features November 24, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    The Future of Art Toronto, and How It Plans to Adapt

    Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour
    Features November 17, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    Kill the Expert: An Interview with Brian Droitcour

    Independent Projects Extends on the “Curated Fair,” with Mixed Results
    Features, Reviews November 13, 2014
    Maya Harakawa

    Independent Projects Extends on the “Curated Fair,” with Mixed Results

    A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)
    Features November 3, 2014
    Saelan Twerdy

    A Theory of Everything: On The State of Theory and Criticism (Part Two)

    The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for Net Art as Public Art
    Features October 27, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    The Commons of Aggregation: The Case for Net Art as Public Art

    Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut
    Reviews October 22, 2014
    David Balzer

    Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut

    Nice Things: The Pleasure Principle in Jeff Koons and Cory Arcangel
    Features October 15, 2014
    Joseph Henry

    Nice Things: The Pleasure Principle in Jeff Koons and Cory Arcangel

    Interview: Ben Davis on Marxism, Criticism, and Contemporary Art
    Features October 15, 2014
    Sky Goodden

    Interview: Ben Davis on Marxism, Criticism, and Contemporary Art

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