Momus
Momus is an international online art publication and podcast committed to reading our cultural text more deeply.
About - Momus
Momus is an online platform for art writing and criticism.Led by founding publisher Sky Goodden, Momus is headquartered in Montreal, with an international team based in Brussels, Los Angeles, Newfoundland, and New York.We are committed to a model of discourse that is plural and rigorous. Launched in 2014, Momus has published over …
Programs - Momus
Momus is committed to a model of art writing and criticism that is plural, inclusive, and rigorous. Our residencies and fellowships are designed to support emerging writers through mentorship, peer networks and professional development.
Momus Talks - Momus
Momus Talks is an ongoing series of public events hosted my Momus, often with our colleagues and collaborators internationally. Ranging in format from artist talks and critics in conversation events, to book launches and live podcasts recordings, Momus Talks aims to galvanize communities around a model of art writing and criticism that is plural and rigorous.
Divya Mehra, Stirring and Whirring Colonialism’s Ghosts
3 days ago · The End of You borrows its title from a series of postcards Mehra began in 2020 for the California College of the Arts Wattis Institute in San Francisco. In these drawings, fuchsia mushroom clouds blossom in the background as white people obliviously go about their shopping, drinking, and TV-watching.
Podcasts Archive - Momus
Sep 20, 2024 · Momus: The Podcast is a monthly arts and culture program hosted by Sky Goodden and Lauren Wetmore.Bringing Momus's unique insistence on criticality into a more conversational register, the podcast is dedicated to transparent conversations with an international cast of artists, curators, critics, and art writers. Momus: The Podcast is in its 7th season and was named one of the top ten art ...
Plant People - Momus
Jan 10, 2022 · What is it about the threat of impending death that drives us into the arms of Mother Nature? In 2020, there was a curious correlation between surging transmissions of a new contagion, the decimation of the white-collar workforce, and a sudden romanticism of pastoral life.
Between Language and Cure: Athena Papadopoulos at MOCA …
Jun 1, 2023 · The show, curated by Rui Mateus Amaral, contained two separate bodies of sculpture: Trees with no sound and Bones for Time (both 2023). While all the individual works are compelling, what is especially absorbing is the artist’s deeper turn from the pop-cultural to the conceptual with Bones for Time, which is my focus in this review.One half-sentient, wormlike sculpture in the series contains ...
“I Wish We Could Reach for New Language”: An Interview with
Apr 4, 2022 · Sky Goodden is the founding publisher and editor of Momus, an online art publication based in Canada.Since its founding in 2014 Momus has consistently supported nuanced and insightful writing on contemporary art, in the form of essays, reviews, and interviews.She also runs the Momus Emerging Critics Residencies and co-produces and co-hosts Momus: The Podcast.
Momus: A Return to Art Criticism Vol. 1 2014-2017 - Momus
Since 2014, Momus has dedicated itself to the vital, uphill work of art criticism in a mostly uncritical time. Its contributors wield this responsibility and challenge with an embodied understanding of writing clearly and bravely about our contemporary moment when we cannot afford to waste space.