The day I went to see Roksana Pirouzmand’s everything was once something else, in Los Angeles, I woke to vibration—a push ...

This episode features Camille Bacon, a Chicago-based writer, editor, and the co-founder of Jupiter Magazine. In a far-ranging ...

For five months I lived with open windows in a suburb of San Juan, air ventilating through my apartment on days of both intense heat and rain. During one particularly dense rainstorm, the circulating ...

Momus Residencies are online and in-person opportunities to connect and deepen art criticism and writing practices. Faculty include leading practitioners in the field, and participants range from ...

“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss is the admission that the self cannot wholly, singularly ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small and skeletal, with an exposed spine and arteries: dredging pipes that ...

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 ...

“What do you see when you look at pictures of President Trump’s cabinet?” asks writer David French in an interactive web exclusive that ran in the New York Times’s opinion section in late April 2025.

Launched in 1995, SITE International Biennial was the first biennial for contemporary art in the United States. Over the course of its eleven editions, the organization has primarily focused on ...

In this episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Line Ajan, a Franco-Syrian curator and translator and member of the editorial, artistic, and curatorial collective Qalqalah. The ...

Ossie Michelin is a Labrador Inuk journalist, filmmaker, and storyteller from the community of North West River, NL. Son of a trapper and missionary nurse from Ontario, Ossie grew up in the country, ...

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York. Since 2011, she has been the Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York. From 2020 to 2022, she served as the Artistic Director of ...