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,…
Looking at Women: Gladys Nilsson’s Seriously Sexy Figures at the Menil Drawing Institute
Of the five figures depicted in Pablo Picasso’s enduringly outrageous Las Chicas de Avignon (the title he supposedly preferred over Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907),…
Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1
Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…
Without Deference: The Political Clarity of Coco Fusco at El Museo del Barrio
Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, movements she has assiduously critiqued ever…
Luther Konadu
Season 9 of Momus: The Podcast launches with Luther Konadu, an artist and publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Reading from an influential book in…
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…
Potential of Other Worlds: Mystery, Lineage, and Los Angeles at AMPHI Gallery
“During one of those sleepless nights, the thought crosses my mind that pregnancy happens to you, like dreams.” —Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra: An Essay…
History as a Chorus: Reimagining Monumentality at SITE Santa Fe
A few miles outside of Santa Fe is a former foundry turned gallery space known as Finquita. In the main building, David Horvitz’s installation…
Inside the Ruins of American Masculinity: Jared Buckhiester at David Kordansky Gallery
In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a ritual of collapse and works inside…
Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid
Tune in to a special bonus episode of Momus: The Podcast featuring a live recording from the launch of writer and critic Minh Nguyen’s…
Choosing How to be Seen: Lessons from Louise Nevelson’s Early Work
Louise Nevelson and I are twins, separated at birth by almost one hundred years—or maybe we’re friends, or she’s my godparent: a guiding light,…
Go on Without Me: Summer Kim Lee and TJ Shin on Absenteeism, Endlessness, and Recursion
In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should…
Time Made Strange: Abbas Akhavan at the Belkin Art Gallery
One Hundred Years, Abbas Akhavan’s current exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (UBC), loosely draws on the Brothers…
Perfectly Imperfect: On Casa Susanna and Its Tender, Queer Entanglements
I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky…
Dare to Have Fun: Pixy Liao Plays with Gendered Power at the Art Institute of Chicago
“A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy Liao’s…
Call from Inside the House: Christina Forrer at Parker Gallery
The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, that…