A Lapidary Grief: Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour” Dares Her Critics
Sheila Heti’s most recent novel, Pure Colour, is a dream-like, funny, soulful, hard-to-wrangle meditation on what it means to live as someone else’s creation,…
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“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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“What Makes Great Art?” with Jeanne Randolph and Sheila Heti (Episode 8)
What makes “great art”? How do we account for what Gertrude Stein called the “itness” of art, and what are we seeking –…
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Post-Confessional: The Aging Intimacies of Sophie Calle
In advance of Missing, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle’s first major retrospective in the United States, both New York Times Magazine and the Guardian…
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“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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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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Sheila Heti Interviews John Currin on the Fun, Beautiful Things
I met with John Currin a couple of years ago. He was finishing up a series of paintings sourced in porn images from 1970s…
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