Another Small Disturbance: Shannon Garden-Smith at MKG127
A mutual excitement is shared between two people who have encountered a Shannon Garden-Smith work. Vibrant carpets of sand, featuring marbled or herringbone designs,…
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Body Believing: Jana Sterbak at Musée des Hospitalières and Esker Foundation
There is a quality of lore around Jana Sterbak. Alongside her temperamental performances and pyrotechnic affinities, she is the artist of burning crowns, interred…
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Remembering Kelly Mark
The artist Kelly Mark, prolific and beloved, left us on February 21, 2025. In spending time with her art these past weeks, I have…
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Prescient About Still-Active Threats, Marisol Is Right on Time
Near the end of the definitive, long-overdue survey of the artist Marisol at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, after a parade of totemic sculptural…
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Kelly Lycan’s Objects in Waiting
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who pulls apart our expectations of the photograph. Like a back door or a sprung leak, her…
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“We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery
When Equinox Gallery—one of Canada’s best-established galleries, and a longstanding benchmark of Vancouver’s art scene—announced its 50th anniversary, earlier this year, I did a…
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“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with Sky Goodden
Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada. Since its founding in 2014 Momus has…
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Season 5, Episode 4: Raimundas Malašauskas
Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lithuanian curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas resigned as curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale,…
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel
In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in…
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Season 5 Episode 2: Harry Dodge
In this episode, artist Harry Dodge reads from My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (Penguin Press, 2020). Dodge, a…
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