Nona Faustine, who passed away this March, was magnificent—a valiant beacon of light in a world often cruel and dismissive of ...

Alexandra M. Thomas is an assistant professor of art history at Fordham University. She writes and teaches black and queer ...

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 ...

Like her Minimalist and post-Minimalist peers, Holt had been working with prefabricated industrial materials for more than a decade by the time she made her first System. Installed at John Weber ...

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 ...

For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman mosaics personified chronos as a god turning ...

Every time I visit Delhi from Colombo, which has been my primary home for three decades, I fight sensory overwhelm caused by the fragility of life in India’s capital through its intangible notions and ...

In 2005, at the Canadian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore projected a video installation called Fountain onto a wall of rushing water. The piece played with the ...

A woman strides down the sidewalk in anarchic ecstasy, smashing one car window after another with an oversized red flower. The sound of glass shattering alternates with a dulcet harmony that carries ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over an image from a single-channel video by interdisciplinary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In Baño Sagrado (Rite of Initiation, Sacred Bath) (1991), ...

The complex work of contemporary artist, media theorist, and filmmaker Hito Steyerl often pivots on a surprisingly simple tactic – wordplay. Consistently, across both her media and textual works, ...