Τα καλύτερα Momus podcast (2024)

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Joshua Schwebel – Season 7, Episode 5 1:01:47

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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 Schwebe…

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Carolina A. Miranda – Season 7, Episode 4 1:07:21

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Carolina A. Miranda, a longtime L.A. Times staff culture writer who has recently returned to the wilds of freelance, speaks to Sky Goodden about looking at things from both sides now. In working on a book proposal about the year she spent in Chile following the fall of Pinochet’s dictatorship, and in exploring new genres of writing for different pu…

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Fargo Nissim Tbakhi – Season 7, Episode 3 1:11:09

3M ago1:11:09

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Palestinian-American artist and writer Fargo Nissim Tbakhi speaks with Lauren Wetmore about the political implication of form through two texts: Tbakhi’s own piece "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" (Protean Magazine, 2023), and Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif’s “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasu…

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An Inflection Point in Art Publishing – Season 7, Episode 2 53:28

4M ago53:28

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Earlier this year, the Momus editorial team gathered for a talk at Plural Art Fair in Montreal. It marked the first time Sky Goodden, Catherine G. Wagley, Jessical Lynne, and Merray Gerges were all together IRL. The lively conversation touched on how we’ve shifted from a discourse of “crisis” in art criticism to its material reality; the ethics of …

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Elvia Wilk – Season 7, Episode 1 1:09:05

5M ago1:09:05

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Launching Season 7, Elvia Wilk, an essayist, critic, and novelist, talks to Sky Goodden about the decision to quit writing—if only to be able to start again. In discussing rejection, the changing conditions of the field, and the denuding of successful female writers, Wilk also touches on the authors who have modeled quitting ("the authors of the no…

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Lara Khaldi – Season 6, Episode 8 54:42

8M ago54:42

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Lara Khaldi is our final guest on Season 6 of Momus: The Podcast. A curator, artist, writer, and educator, Khaldi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently lives in Amsterdam, where she has been newly appointed as director of de Appel. In this episode, Khaldi speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the Palestinian American artist, activist, and schola…

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Nasrin Himada – Season 6, Episode 7 59:53

9M ago59:53

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For the 50th (!) episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks to Nasrin Himada, a Palestinian curator and writer who is currently associate curator at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. "I write for my people. I write for Palestinians, and I write for the liberation of our lands," Himada says of the…

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Jessica Lynne and Catherine G. Wagley – Season 6, Episode 6 1:09:29

11M ago1:09:29

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In this episode, Jessica Lynne speaks with Catherine G. Wagley about their shared love for Barbara Christian’s iconically confrontational essay, “The Race for Theory” (1987, Cultural Critique). Christian, a ground-laying literary academic who introduced writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker to the academe, goes toe to toe with her peers in th…

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Kate Wolf - Season 6, Episode 5 1:01:35

1y ago1:01:35

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This episode features Kate Wolf, one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a critic whose work has appeared in publications including The Nation, n+1, Art in America, and Frieze. Wolf is currently an Editor at Large of the LARB and a co-host and producer of its weekly radio show and podcast, The LARB Radio Hour. In conversa…

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Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick - Season 6, Episode 4 1:07:13

1y ago1:07:13

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Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) joins Lauren Wetmore in conversation about Māhealani Dudoit’s fundamental text, “Carving a Hawaiian Aesthetic,” published in the first issue of ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal – He ‘oia mau nō kākou’, which Dudoit co-founded in 1998. Broderick, an artist, curator, and educator from Mōkapu, Oʻahu, champions t…

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Sháńdíín Brown - Season 6, Episode 3 1:07:12

1y ago1:07:12

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This episode features an interview with Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), continuing our series talking to participants in the Momus residency "Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency" co-hosted with Forge Project. Lauren Wetmore talks to Sháńdíín Brown, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and the first Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Nativ…

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Megan Tamati-Quennell - Season 6, Episode 2 42:20

1+ y ago42:20

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Throughout the season, Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden will speak with participants of the Momus residency, “Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency,” created with Forge Project and led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa) and Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish). To launch this series, Wetmore speaks with writer and curator Megan Tamat…

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Sky Goodden – Season 6, Episode 1 41:31

1+ y ago41:31

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To launch our sixth season, Lauren Wetmore interviews Sky Goodden on a book that has recently got her all "twirled up." They discuss Art Writing in Crisis (Sternberg Press, 2021) which sits adjacent to an exhausting list of books on art criticism in crisis and points instead to the emancipatory potential of criticism, and, as Goodden and Lauren ter…

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Jessica Lynne and Kemi Adeyemi - Season 5, Episode 10 1:10:34

2y ago1:10:34

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The season finale for Momus: The Podcast’s fifth season features a conversation between writer, art critic, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, Jessica Lynne, and Dr. Kemi Adeyemi, an “art-adjacent academic” and Director of The Black Embodiment Studio at the University of Washington. Adeyemi talks about her new book, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and th…

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Cecilia Alemani - Season 5, Episode 9 1:00:55

2y ago1:00:55

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For the penultimate episode of Season 5, Sky Goodden interviews Cecilia Alemani, the Artistic Director of the 59th Venice Biennale. After three years of research and commissioning (an extended period of preparation, due to the pandemic) and 7 months of The Milk of Dreams being open to an immense public, Alemani takes a rearview look onto a show tha…

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Meeka Walsh and Jarrett Earnest - Season 5, Episode 8 1:05:49

2y ago1:05:49

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On the occasion of her first book of collected art writings, Malleable Forms (ARP Books), Meeka Walsh, editor of Border Crossings magazine, speaks to guest-host Jarrett Earnest about geographic isolation, the eroticism of art writing, her connection with an emerging spiritual lineage, and about a set of relationships driving her engagement with art…

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Ben Davis - Season 5, Episode 7 1:23:17

2y ago1:23:17

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In the introduction to Ben Davis’s new book, a bracing and perspectival collection of essays titled Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket Books), he reflects that “the only thing that has grown faster than the demands on art has been doubt that art can respond adequately to those demands.” In a generous and thoughtful conversation with Sky Goodden, D…

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Arushi Vats - Season 5, Episode 6 1:19:01

2+ y ago1:19:01

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"We are post-purity," observes Arushi Vats, a Delhi-based writer and inaugural fellow of the Momus/Eyebeam Critical Writing Fellowship. Rooted in field research and expanded through poetics, Vat's text Exit the Rehearsal: A Body in Delhi, published by Runway Journal, is a precise yet capacious meditation on our "epoch of waste"— ecocide, legacy was…

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Rahel Aima – Season 5, Episode 5 1:23:00

2+ y ago1:23:00

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This month, Sky Goodden speaks with Rahel Aima, a prolific critic, art writer, and Associate Editor at Momus. We focus on a text Aima published in Momus, “Depleting Felix Gonzales-Torres” (July 2020), that takes aim at “a mammoth exhibition” of the late Gonzalez-Torres’s 1990 work Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner). Aima writes “In a move taken right…

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Raimundas Malašauskas – Season 5, Episode 4 59:33

2+ y ago59:33

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Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lithuanian curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas resigned as curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale, along with participating artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov, citing the war as “politically and emotionally unbearable.” Using his letter of resignation, which Mala…

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Dana Kopel – Season 5, Episode 3 1:16:28

3y ago1:16:28

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In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in September 2021 by The Baffler. In conversation, Kopel expands on “the personal and messy dimensions” of unionizing work, and reflects on the challenges of calling out the exploita…

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Harry Dodge – Season 5, Episode 2 1:26:30

3y ago1:26:30

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In this episode, artist and writer Harry Dodge reads from My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (Penguin Press, 2020). Perhaps best known as a sculptor, Dodge writes from inside the artist’s life and the sometimes inchoate density of a studio practice. Tracking us through cosmic patterns and material grapplings as they inter…

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Emmanuel Iduma – Season 5, Episode 1 1:15:49

3y ago1:15:49

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In the first episode of Season 5, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Nigerian art writer Emmanuel Iduma, who reads from “Mileage from Here: Nine Narratives.” Known for his travel and photography writing, and for establishing what he calls “a third, or shared, space between images and text,” the selection Iduma reads from (published in an exceptional presen…

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Kristian Vistrup Madsen - Season 4, Episode 9 1:16:01

3+ y ago1:16:01

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In the penultimate episode of Season 4 – across which Momus: The Podcast has been engaging writers on the genesis and reception of a particular piece of criticism – Sky Goodden speaks with Kristian Vistrup Madsen about writing Artforum Diary through the pandemic, and bringing the historic column to a more isolated, romantic, existential, and someti…

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Muna Mire & Tourmaline – Season 4, Episode 8 48:43

3+ y ago48:43

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This episode gets a jump on summer with artist and filmmaker Tourmaline and writer and producer Muna Mire. In conversation, they discuss Mire’s profile of Toumaline in Frieze (October 2020) and elaborate on Tourmaline's celebration of trans histories, queer joy, community organizing, Black freedom, communing with her chosen ancestries, and what she…

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Nora N. Khan on “Within, Below, and Alongside” – Season 4, Episode 7 1:20:09

3+ y ago1:20:09

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“A school will change you, and it teaches you as much about how people will interpret you, misunderstand and dismiss you, as it will teach you about a creative life.”Critic, curator, and educator Nora N. Khan reads from "Dark Study: Within, Below, and Alongside," a feature text published in the inaugural issue of March, which starts with the questi…

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Alexandra Stock on “The Privileged, Violent Stunt” – Season 4, Episode 6 1:00:37

3+ y ago1:00:37

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Lauren Wetmore interviews Swiss American curator and writer Alexandra Stock about her scathing critique of Christophe Büchel’s 2019 Venice Biennale project Barca Nostra. Published that same year by the independent Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr, Stock’s "The Privileged, Violent Stunt That is the Venice Biennale Boat Project" decries an “artwor…

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Rianna Jade Parker on “Letter from London” – Season 4, Episode 5 1:14:58

3+ y ago1:14:58

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Rianna Jade Parker reads "Letter from London: What is the Status of Black Artists in England Today?" published in ARTnews (June 2020), and engages Sky Goodden on issues of artworld access, stature, masculinity, precariousness, deference to sovereignty, and duty to one another, for Black British artists working in the UK. From Steve McQueen's accept…

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Léuli Eshrāghi on tagatavāsā – Season 4, Episode 4 56:00

4y ago56:00

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In episode 4, Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi discusses "tagatavāsā," a text centered on Eshrāghi's grandmother's art practice that interweaves Indigenous language with the vernacular of contemporary art. Eshrāghi works across visual arts, curatorial practice, and university research, "intervening in display territories to centre Indigenous kin constellations, …

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Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove” – Season 4, Episode 3 49:08

4y ago49:08

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“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April 2019), a joyfully loaded review of William E. Jones’s novel I’m Open to Anything, released in 2019 by Los Angeles independent publisher We Heard You Like Books. In this searching conver…

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Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait” – Season 4, Episode 2 1:07:05

4y ago1:07:05

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"Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism."This has been critic Nikki Columbus's refrain through the past season, issuing what many considered the final word of a furious debate surrounding the postponement of a Guston retrospective. Titled "Guston Can Wait" and published October 27, 2020 in N+1, the text (wh…

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Nikki Columbus on "Guston Can Wait" - Season 4, Episode 2 1:07:05

4y ago1:07:05

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"Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism." This has been critic Nikki Columbus's refrain through the past season, issuing what many considered the final word of a furious debate surrounding the postponement of a Guston retrospective. Titled "Guston Can Wait" and published October 27, 2020 in N+1, the text (w…

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What Artists and Curators Do for Money - Season 4 Episode 1 49:23

4y ago49:23

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Season 4 of Momus: The Podcast invites art critics and journalists to talk about an important piece of their writing – texts that carry stories, that ran in prestigious publications to great acclaim, or that were killed under tense circumstances. Every two weeks, co-hosts Sky Goodden and Lauren Wetmore will ask a different writer to read their text…

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The White Pube on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” - Ep. 24 1:05:47

4y ago1:05:47

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In the final episode of Season 3, which has been devoted to the question of "what's changed, and what should?", Sky Goodden speaks to The White Pube, a UK-based art-criticism collective comprised of Zarina Muhammad and Gabriella de la Puente. Across five years of publishing, The White Pube has been celebrated for its insistence on "embodied critici…

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Sophia Al Maria on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 23 56:02

4+ y ago56:02

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For episode 23, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Sophia al Maria, a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker based in London. Author of publications including Sad Sack, Virgin With A Memory, and her autobiography The Girl Who Fell To Earth, Al Maria has also written for Triple Canopy, Bidoun, and Harper’s Magazine. Her work as an artist has been exhi…

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Ebony L. Haynes on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 22 48:43

4+ y ago48:43

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For episode 22, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Ebony L. Haynes, a gallerist, curator, and writer. Haynes is the Director of Martos Gallery in New York, and Shoot the Lobster in New York and LA. Active for the past ten years, Haynes has insisted on the meaningful inclusion of Black artists and professionals in the contemporary artworld. In this potent co…

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Coco Fusco on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” - Ep. 21 48:59

4+ y ago48:59

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For episode 21, Sky Goodden spoke with Coco Fusco, the legendary Cuban-American critic, artist, educator, and art historian. Speaking from the center of a pandemic, and on the brink of a significant wave of civil unrest and anti-racist protest, Fusco circled themes relevant to each crisis, looping them through the lens of Cuban history and the seis…

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Daniel Blanga Gubbay on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 20 49:25

4+ y ago49:25

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For this episode, still circling the question "what's changed, and what should?", Lauren Wetmore spoke with Brussels-based curator Daniel Blanga Gubbay, the artistic co-director of the historic Kunstenfestivaldesarts. Gubbay has worked as an educator and an independent curator for public programs including Manifesta, Palermo (2018); and was head of…

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Johanna Fateman on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 19 37:27

4+ y ago37:27

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For this episode, Sky Goodden spoke with art writer and musician Johanna Fateman, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, a contributing editor at Artforum, and a frequent critic for 4Columns.org. Fateman co-owns the historic Seagull Salon in New York City, and is, as Lauren notes, "riot grrrl queer royalty" for her involvement in bands like Le Ti…

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Alessandro Bava on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”- Ep. 18 1:02:26

4+ y ago1:02:26

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Momus: The Podcast launched Season 3 with the question “what’s changed – and what should?”, which we continue with Alessandro Bava, an architect and writer based in Naples, Italy. Bava makes exhibitions, installations, interiors, and architecture projects, and writes on the poetics, politics, and technologies that produce contemporary space. In con…

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Eleanor Nairne on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 17 50:22

4+ y ago50:22

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Momus: The Podcast launches Season 3 with the question “what's changed – and what should?” with curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne. This prompt was already set, but with the emerging pandemic and its irreversible effects on our economy, cultural metabolism, relationship to art, sense of agency, and connection to one other, there has never bee…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Margaux Williamson – Ep. 16 39:54

4+ y ago39:54

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As we continue to circle the question “what makes great art?”, Sky Goodden spoke with Margaux Williamson, a slow painter who gives the greatest primacy to the work of her work, and to the thinking-through that the work requires. Based in Toronto, and known for both her intense focus in the studio and her community-building in Toronto's art scene, W…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Isabel Lewis – Ep. 15 34:19

5y ago34:19

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For this month’s episode circling the question “what makes great art?”, Lauren Wetmore spoke with Berlin-based artist Isabel Lewis. Lewis was trained in classical ballet and carries its impression through a practice that marries philosophy, choreography, storytelling, and sensory aesthetics. She insists, “There is nothing neutral about the body."Mo…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Jarrett Earnest – Ep. 14 47:23

5y ago47:23

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For this month’s episode, towards our season's question, “what makes great art?”, Sky Goodden spoke with artist, curator, and writer Jarrett Earnest. He’s the editor behind the recent compilation of New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl's writing, titled Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light (Abrams, 2019), which highlights Schjeldahl's more risk-taking and experim…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Francis McKee – Ep. 13 53:16

5y ago53:16

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For this month’s episode, circling the question “what makes great art?” Lauren Wetmore entered into a searching conversation with Irish curator and writer Francis McKee.Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, features original music by Kyle McCrea, and assistant production from Mitra Shreeram. Our many thanks to Francis for his meditative cont…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Katerina Gregos – Ep. 12 40:26

5y ago40:26

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Continuing with our pursuit of the question “What makes great art?”, Lauren Wetmore sits down with Greek art historian, curator, and writer Katerina Gregos, in Brussels. Their conversation builds on a quote from Gregos's recent exhibition The Anatomy of Political Melancholy, hosted by the Schwartz Foundation at the Athens Conservatory: “We are incr…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Jinn Bronwen Lee – Ep. 11 28:22

5+ y ago28:22

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As we continue our season-long exploration of “What makes great art?”, Sky Goodden sat down with Jinn Bronwen Lee, an artist based in Chicago. They discuss old master painting, the effect of our viewing environments on art, and the power of long looking. Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, features original music by Kyle McCrea, and assist…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Dushko Petrovich – Ep. 10 25:45

5+ y ago25:45

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In our 10th episode, we continue our season-long exploration of the question, “What makes great art,” speaking to essential voices of our time about their experiences of seeking it. What follows is an interview between Momus Publisher Sky Goodden and Dushko Petrovich. Born in Ecuador and based in Chicago, Dushko is the chair of the New Arts Journal…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Osei Bonsu - Ep. 09

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In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what are we seeking – and so often missing – in our experience of art. What follows is an interview with the British-Ghanaian curator, critic, and art historian Osei Bonsu. Based in Paris and Lond…

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“What Makes Great Art?” with Jeanne Randolph and Sheila Heti – Ep. 08 25:02

5+ y ago25:02

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What makes “great art”? How do we account for what Gertrude Stein called the “itness” of art, and what are we seeking - and so often missing - in our experience of art? In brief, bright 30-minute episodes, Momus: The Podcast’s second season will follow co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden as they speak with writers, curators, filmmakers, novelis…

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