Season 4 Episode 7: Nora N. Khan on “Within, Below, and Alongside”
“A school will change you, and it teaches you as much about how people will interpret you, misunderstand and dismiss you, as it will…
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Season 4 Episode 6: Alexandra Stock on “The Privileged, Violent Stunt”
Lauren Wetmore interviews Swiss American curator and writer Alexandra Stock about her scathing critique of Christophe Büchel’s 2019 Venice Biennale project Barca Nostra. Published that…
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Season 4 Episode 5: Rianna Jade Parker on “Letter from London”
Rianna Jade Parker reads “Letter from London: What is the Status of Black Artists in England Today?” published in ARTnews (June 2020), and engages…
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Season 4 Episode 3: Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove”
“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April…
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Season 4 Episode 2: Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait”
“Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism.” This has been critic Nikki Columbus’s refrain through the past season, issuing…
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Season 4 Episode 1: What Artists and Curators Do for Money
Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry…
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The Totemic Quotidian in Roula Partheniou
At a time when contemporary art production is dominated by forces outside its control, pulling and pushing against commercial and cultural contexts; when media…
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From Artworld Punchline to Real-World Parable: Ruben Östlund’s “The Square”
The degree to which contemporary culture understands (or fails to understand) “The Art World” can be measured in how it gets portrayed in film…
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A House Divided: Theaster Gates’s Confused Beat at the AGO
Touted as “a new immersive work,” Theaster Gates‘s first museum solo exhibition – self-knowingly titled How to Build a House Museum, and recently on show…
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The Ages of Mat Brown
Mat Brown is an artist whose primary concern is the immensity of time. His large drawings, rendered delicately with transparent inks on board, resemble…
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