WAG

You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar

Reviews June 4, 2026

Emma Fiona Jones

You Might Just Call It Love: Mapping the World(s) of Paul Thek and Peter Hujar

Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain

June 26–27, 2026

PHI
Montreal

Momus Convening: To Build and Sustain

Momus Celebrates Ten Years at 52 Walker

May 8, 2025 6:00 PM–8:00 PM

52 Walker
New York

Momus Celebrates Ten Years at 52 Walker

Momus Arts Journalism Residency

Residency June 10–July 25, 2024

Emily Laurent Henderson

Emily Laurent Henderson

Alysia Nicole Harris

Alysia Nicole Harris

Charting an Inflection Point in Art Criticism & Publishing

Talk April 12, 2024 6:00 PM

Plural
Montreal

Charting an Inflection Point in Art Criticism & Publishing

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The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama

Reviews September 17, 2025

Tara Anne Dalbow

The All-Seeing Eyes of Carol Rama

A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas

Reviews June 5, 2025

Paula Mejía

A Punk-Rock Polyglot: The Subversive Riffing of Carole Caroompas

The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems

Features May 15, 2025

Cat Kron

The High Stakes of Nancy Holt’s Systems

Remembering Kelly Mark

Features March 25, 2025

Sky Goodden

Remembering Kelly Mark

A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

Reviews March 6, 2025

Simon Wu

A Very Real American Place: The Suburban Unconscious in Mike Kelley

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

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

Jessica Lynne and Catherine G. Wagley

Jessica Lynne and Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

Features, Reviews August 15, 2024

Jessica Lynne, Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: The 2024 Whitney Biennial

Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory

Reviews June 28, 2024

Michael Dango

Paper Abstractions: Virginia Jaramillo’s Social Theory

Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects

Reviews April 4, 2024

Kirsty Robertson

Caroline Monnet’s Uneasy Objects

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

Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude

Features, Reviews November 30, 2023

Jenny Wu

Through the Looking Glass: Distortion and the Fantasy of a Feminist Nude

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

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

Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

Features May 22, 2023

Arushi Vats

Evidence of Things Seen*: Capture and Control in India

Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

Features, Reviews December 10, 2022

Rahel Aima and Catherine G. Wagley

Reviewing the Reviews: Documenta 15

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

Proving the Rule: The “Exceptionalism” Problem with Art-World Labor

Features April 28, 2022

Dana Kopel

Proving the Rule: The “Exceptionalism” Problem with Art-World Labor

Situating Great Ocean Art in Canadian Museums

Features October 29, 2021

Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi

Situating Great Ocean Art in Canadian Museums

Letter From Atlanta: St. Roch Blues

Features March 2, 2021

Jasmine Amussen

Letter From Atlanta: St. Roch Blues

Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater

Features, Reviews February 11, 2021

Catherine G. Wagley

Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater

The Untenability of the Unethical Museum

Features October 30, 2020

Catherine G. Wagley

The Untenability of the Unethical Museum

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

Depleting Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Reviews July 6, 2020

Rahel Aima

Depleting Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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

Lives of the Artists: Remembering Vilmos

Features February 13, 2020

Ted Goodden

Lives of the Artists: Remembering Vilmos

After the Afterparty: Alan Belcher and Friends, in Retrospect

Reviews January 10, 2020

Saelan Twerdy

After the Afterparty: Alan Belcher and Friends, in Retrospect

Art and Labor: Writers Bloc

Features September 16, 2019

Jasmine Amussen

Art and Labor: Writers Bloc

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

The Faces That You Meet: Huma Bhabha’s Close Encounters

Reviews June 5, 2019

Tausif Noor

The Faces That You Meet: Huma Bhabha’s Close Encounters

“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

Sanded Edges: Pierre Huyghe Turns Polite at the Serpentine

Reviews February 1, 2019

Kanad Chakrabarti

Sanded Edges: Pierre Huyghe Turns Polite at the Serpentine

Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”

Features, Reviews January 21, 2019

Sky Goodden

Bad Faith in MOCA Toronto’s Inaugural Show, “Believe”

Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed

Reviews October 10, 2018

Johanna Fateman

Now More Than Ever: Sarah Lucas’s Provocations, Renewed

Pinning Whiteness to the Wall: The Violent Theater of Rosalind Fox Solomon

Reviews October 3, 2018

Michèle Pearson Clarke

Pinning Whiteness to the Wall: The Violent Theater of Rosalind Fox Solomon

The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive

Features, Reviews March 23, 2018

Mark Mann

The Trouble with Occupying Others: Althea Thauberger Confronts the Violence of the Archive

The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)

Features January 31, 2018

Raymond Gervais

The Listening Gaze: Raymond Gervais (1946-2018)

The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey

Reviews October 6, 2017

Juan José Santos

The Strangeness of the Everyday: Skulptur Projekte Münster’s Deep Grey

“Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?

Features, Reviews July 7, 2017

Kristian Vistrup Madsen

“Made in Germany”: Can the Artworld Have a Nation?

Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”

Features, Reviews June 22, 2017

Mitch Speed

Wu Tsang, Eileen Myles, and Me: Reading Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”

The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism

Reviews June 7, 2017

Rahel Aima

The Center Holds: Bruce High Quality Foundation’s Accidental Gulf Nativism

The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.

Reviews April 20, 2017

Hyunjee Nicole Kim

The Inevitable Cannibalization of Institutional Critique: Surveying Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo in L.A.

Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire

Reviews March 24, 2017

Mitch Speed

Stay on It: Maintaining Julius Eastman’s Radical Desire

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

A Culture War is Coming

Features November 10, 2016

Christian Viveros-Fauné

A Culture War is Coming

Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”

Reviews October 10, 2016

Andrew Berardini

Stardust Tears: Sojourner Truth Parsons’s “Crying in California”

The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof

Reviews October 5, 2016

Alison Hugill

The Instagrammable Angst of Anne Imhof

Towards the Profane: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Exercises Her “Maintenance” at Queens Museum

Reviews September 20, 2016

Ben Davis

Towards the Profane: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Exercises Her “Maintenance” at Queens Museum

Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16

Features August 25, 2016

Sky Goodden

Momus Best-Of: Vol. 2 2015-16

After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble

Features June 30, 2016

Ben Davis

After Brexit, Art Must Break Out of Its Bubble

How to Become a Curator

Features May 16, 2016

Andrew Berardini

How to Become a Curator

The Depressing Power of Art in Raphaëlle de Groot’s “Summit Meetings”

Reviews April 26, 2016

Sky Goodden, Mark Mann

The Depressing Power of Art in Raphaëlle de Groot’s “Summit Meetings”

Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s at Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto

Reviews March 30, 2016

Kimberlee Córdova

Misogyny and the Myth of the ’90s at Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto

The Function of Gossip as Criticism in Mexico’s Artworld

Features December 1, 2015

Kimberlee Córdova

The Function of Gossip as Criticism in Mexico’s Artworld

Catherine G. Wagley

What is the Museum of the Future?

Features September 29, 2015

Chris Dercon

What is the Museum of the Future?

Beware the “Creative Economy”

Features September 15, 2015

Ben Davis

Beware the “Creative Economy”

A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe

Reviews August 21, 2015

Andrew Berardini

A.L. Steiner’s Personal Archive: Underground Heroes, Everyday Lovers, and Global Catastrophe

Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”

Reviews August 18, 2015

RM Vaughan

Nothing is Absolute: The Fairy-Winged Failure of “Absolute Beauty: Neoacademicism in Saint Petersburg”

How To See a Sunset

Features July 15, 2015

Andrew Berardini

How To See a Sunset

View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop

Reviews June 29, 2015

Dagmara Genda

View from Here: On the Contingency of Sight in Wanda Koop

Ydessa Hendeles: Of Ourselves and of Our Subjects

Reviews June 2, 2015

Rui Amaral, Sky Goodden

Ydessa Hendeles: Of Ourselves and of Our Subjects

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”

Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE

Features March 27, 2015

Cliff Eyland

Retrospective: Pollock in LIFE

Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia

Reviews February 16, 2015

Saelan Twerdy

Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia

Villa Toronto’s Failure and Provocation: How Do We Invite the Outside In?

Features, Reviews January 22, 2015

Sky Goodden

Villa Toronto’s Failure and Provocation: How Do We Invite the Outside In?

Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art

Features January 14, 2015

Sky Goodden

Interview: Pedro Reyes Reclaims the Politics in Art

Year in Review: Montreal From the Ground Up

Features December 31, 2014

Saelan Twerdy

Year in Review: Montreal From the Ground Up

Women and Influence and the Other Things He Got Wrong: A Rebuttal To Brad Phillips

Features December 17, 2014

Sky Goodden

Women and Influence and the Other Things He Got Wrong: A Rebuttal To Brad Phillips

Douglas Gordon at the Armory Is All Flash and No Follow-Through

Reviews December 15, 2014

Christian Viveros-Fauné

Douglas Gordon at the Armory Is All Flash and No Follow-Through

Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan

Features, Reviews December 1, 2014

Wojciech Olejnik

Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan

The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin

Reviews November 19, 2014

Clint Burnham

The Problematized Fun of Cosima von Bonin

Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014

Reviews November 10, 2014

Saelan Twerdy

Future Forecast: The Montreal Biennale 2014

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

Frank Mädler’s Fleeting Capture

Features August 3, 2014

Sky Goodden

Frank Mädler’s Fleeting Capture

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