On the Sense of Queer Loneliness: Sacha Yanow’s “Uncle!” at The Kitchen
A lone wolf stalks the edges of Sacha Yanow’s one-person performance Uncle! that premiered at The Kitchen in New York in February. In nature,…
A lone wolf stalks the edges of Sacha Yanow’s one-person performance Uncle! that premiered at The Kitchen in New York in February. In nature,…
In El abrazo, Delcy Morelos’s site-specific solo exhibition at Dia Chelsea in New York, two earthworks swell against the perimeters of two discrete, darkened…
Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws…
In the fall of 2023, when I came to New York on a research fellowship, I visited Levani’s studio for the second time. Levani,…
“The Sound-Sweep,” a 1960 short story by J. G. Ballard, takes place in a world where normal music has been supplanted by soundless, uncontaminated…
Lara Khaldi is our final guest on Season 6 of Momus: The Podcast. A curator, artist, writer, and educator, Khaldi was born in Jerusalem,…
Satisfaction (2000) by the artist Alexis Smith is a collage that features a shabby reproduction of Hokusai’s The Great Wave placed within a glitzy…
I was once teleported to Chapada dos Veadeiros (Plateau of the Deer Protectors) National Park in the southwestern region of the state of Goiás…
What is the visuality of abortion care? Though I am writing this text for a publication based in Los Angeles—once my home for many…
For the 50th (!) episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks to Nasrin Himada, a Palestinian curator and writer who is currently associate…
Sawridge First Nation artist Brenda Draney paints open-ended memories, what might have been or should have been or could have been otherwise. Her solo…
On August 29, 2023, the Globe and Mail published an article headlined “Toronto’s cash-strapped Artscape to enter receivership, end management of 14 artist facilities.”…
What does an art practice that contends with feminism look like? In what ways can such a practice foreclose a confrontation with the complexities…
In this episode, Jessica Lynne speaks with Catherine G. Wagley about their shared love for Barbara Christian’s iconically confrontational essay, “The Race for Theory”…
When you first walk into Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at the Whitney Museum, you’re greeted by Andy Warhol’s…
Rarely do I find a work of art as disturbing as Louise Bonnet’s innocuously titled painting Figure Holding an Orange (2023). This thirty-square-foot oil-on-linen…