In mid-September of last year, as the light was streaking gold and the prairie air smelled of yellow, I had the pleasure of visiting Badlands ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the ...

Our Residencies, Fellowships, Talks and events provide opportunities for critical inquiry, peer networking, and professional development. Momus Programs extend the publication’s commitment to ...

Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...

This episode features M. Neelika Jayawardane, a writer and scholar whose work is informed by Southern Africa’s history, and ...

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 ...

Amy Sillman is a highly regarded painter, writer, and curator based in New York. One might regard her as a consummate insider. The artist has a solo exhibition at Gladstone Gallery this May but hails ...

“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty places in the world.” Both Paul and Peter are deeply New York artists; that’s ...

An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s top. The din of the ongoing installation echoed from ...

The painter Agnes Martin contemplated language with a great deal of skepticism. Though she produced an impressive body of written work, mostly compiled and published for public consumption, Martin ...

It’s intimidating to absorb an institutional exhibition that spans a decade of a nation’s art scene, especially as an outsider. So a natural point of entry for interpretation arrives through ...

When Paul Pfeiffer was ten years old, he dreamt that he was possessed by the devil. He had just moved from the tropical suburbs of Hawaii to a rural town in the Philippines, where his parents were to ...