Momus
Momus is an international online art publication and podcast committed to reading our cultural text more deeply.
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.
About - Momus
Momus (est. 2014) is an online platform for art writing and criticism. Our activities encompass publishing, Momus: The Podcast, and mentorship programs including Residencies and Fellowships. In both the long and short term, we aim to serve underrepresented art writers and under-addressed readerships.
Podcasts Archive - Momus
Dec 17, 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 ...
“You Took, Took, Took”: Alanis Obomsawin’s Work is Never Finished
9 hours ago · In a guided tour of the exhibition with the artist that I attended, Obomsawin spoke about her film When All the Leaves Are Gone (2010), and how it depicts a young girl named Wato whose experiences are based on Obomsawin’s childhood. It is her most personal project to date. Wato cries in class as her teacher reads aloud from a textbook that describes Indigenous people as savages, violent, and ...
Momus Talks - Momus
Momus Talks is an ongoing series of public events hosted by 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.
Tiana Reid - Momus
3 days ago · Momus: The Podcast’s Season 07 finale features Tiana Reid, a Toronto-based critic and assistant professor of English at York University. Reid is a former editor at The New Inquiry and her writing has been featured in Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among others.She reads from an early influence on her practice, Sylvia Wynter, whose text “Jonkonnu in ...
Arenas of Freedom - Momus
Dec 20, 2024 · MC 9 and A Prune Twin bookend a smaller space housing Personalities (2024), a sculptural suite of video portraits arranged in a spiral and suffused in Atlas’s signature orange, “the sophisticated sister of red.”In Personalities, everyone is a star, including you, if you stand in an orange spotlight in the center of a circle of monitors atop orange plinths, the …
Joshua Schwebel - Momus
Oct 22, 2024 · Joshua Schwebel speaks to long-time collaborator Lauren Wetmore about their shared interest in closing the gap between how art is discursively framed and what it actually does. Schwebel’s artistic practice stems from a deep need to understand the world, coupled with an allergy to authority. “Art is rhetorically positioned as radical,” notes Schwebel, “but …
Canadian Art Archives - Momus
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… Read More