When I asked her about the genesis of her current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, Lines That World a River, Shahana ...

Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that her work Elegy was selected to represent South Africa at the 61 st ...

M. Neelika Jayawardane is a writer and scholar. She is Professor of English Literature at a university in the US, and a Senior Research Associate at The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS ...

In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a ritual of collapse and works inside what’s left of American power. Horse, chain, ...

This year’s Berlin Biennale title, The Present in Drag, spells out clearly what we can expect. The aim of the show is to reflect our contemporary moment back to us in a performative guise; in this ...

It was an ordinary Friday evening in September, perhaps already giving way to Saturday morning bleariness, when I turned to my partner half asleep and said “Bae, I think I’m going to join a union.” It ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though his most renowned artworks are in the next gallery along with his clownish public ...

For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its yellow cover reflect and shimmer. It’s not a rigid object but a source of ...

Ursula Biemann has been challenging, and excavating, how knowledge is produced for thirty years now, but in the past decade she has turned her attention to the environment. Her fieldwork has ...

This is the first of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027. Find the second, by Lisa Hsiao Chen, here. “I wanted to ...