Podcasts by Momus: The Podcast
Momus: The Podcast promotes criticism in conversation on a variety of timely issues relating to contemporary art and the present moment. Co-hosts Sky Goodden and Lauren Wetmore invite art critics, writers, and journalists to read texts that carry stories – that ran in prestigious publications to great acclaim or were killed under tense circumstances – and discuss how these pieces came into being: their inspiration, construction, and impact.
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Season 5, Episode 4: Raimundas Malašauskas from 2022-03-18T22:16:17
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 a...
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel from 2022-01-29T00:06:18
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 Baff...
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel from 2022-01-29T00:06:18
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 Baffle...
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Harry Dodge–Season 5, Episode 2 from 2021-12-17T06:48:11
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 in...
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Emmanuel Iduma–Season 5, Episode 1 from 2021-11-12T00:01:44
In the first episode of Season 5, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Nigerian critic Emmanuel Iduma. He reads from “Mileage from Here: Nine Narratives,"published in Todd Webb in Africa (Thames&Hudson, 2021...
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Season 4 Episode 9: Kristian Vistrup Madsen from 2021-07-20T03:14:47
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...
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Muna Mire&Tourmaline–Season 4, Episode 8 from 2021-06-14T19:48:05
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 ela...
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Nora N. Khan on“Within, Below, and Alongside”–Season 4, Episode 7 from 2021-05-07T01:26:46
“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...
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Alexandra Stock on“The Privileged, Violent Stunt”–Season 4, Episode 6 from 2021-04-13T01:06:14
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...
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Rianna Jade Parker on“Letter from London”–Season 4, Episode 5 from 2021-03-05T04:05
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, m...
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Léuli Eshrāghi on tagatavāsā–Season 4, Episode 4 from 2021-02-02T01:27:02
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. Eshrāgh...
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Tausif Noor on“Hand in Glove”–Season 4, Episode 3 from 2021-01-08T17:37:53
“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 ...
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Nikki Columbus on“Guston Can Wait”–Season 4, Episode 2 from 2020-12-21T04:11:28
"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...
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What Artists and Curators Do for Money–Season 4, Episode 1 from 2020-11-23T01:15:08
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 acclai...
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The White Pube on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”–Ep. 24 from 2020-08-14T03:15:39
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...
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Sophia Al Maria on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 23 from 2020-07-23T02:39:19
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 ...
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Ebony L. Haynes on “What’s Changed, and What Should?” – Ep. 22 from 2020-06-21T17:56:06
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. Activ...
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Coco Fusco on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”–Ep. 21 from 2020-06-03T02:27:40
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 signific...
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Daniel Blanga Gubbay on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”–Ep. 20 from 2020-05-16T20:50:37
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 Kuns...
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Johanna Fateman on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”–Ep. 19 from 2020-05-01T04:04
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....
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Alessandro Bava on “What’s Changed, and What Should?”- Ep. 18 from 2020-04-18T20:47:02
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 exhibi...
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Eleanor Nairne on“What’s Changed, and What Should?”–Ep. 17 from 2020-04-03T04:15:36
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...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Margaux Williamson–Ep. 16 from 2020-02-20T06:14:22
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-...
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“What Makes Great Art?” with Isabel Lewis–Ep. 15 from 2019-11-29T06:56:02
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 ...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Jarrett Earnest–Ep. 14 from 2019-10-23T03:40:39
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 o...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Francis McKee–Ep. 13 from 2019-09-23T02:13
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 edit...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Katerina Gregos–Ep. 12 from 2019-08-06T04:00:41
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 ...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Jinn Bronwen Lee–Ep. 11 from 2019-06-27T20:59:50
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 vi...
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“What Makes Great Art?” with Dushko Petrovich–Ep. 10 from 2019-05-22T17:18:17
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...
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“What Makes Great Art?” with Osei Bonsu–Ep. 09 from 2019-04-08T20:12:14
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 ...
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“What Makes Great Art?”with Jeanne Randolph and Sheila Heti–Ep. 08 from 2019-03-07T23:33:02
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 e...
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“Over, Again and Again”Renewing Canada’s Artist-Run Culture–Ep. 07 from 2018-10-30T05:07:13
In Momus: The Podcast's 7th episode, we have brought together a group of artists, curators, and scholars to update the conversation around Artist-Run Culture in Canada. It’s a well-known history, o...
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An Ethics of Abundance with Jacob Wren and Dayna Danger–Ep. 06 from 2018-09-29T20:47:53
For this episode of our Criticism in Conversation series, a writer and collaborative performer, Jacob Wren, speaks with artist Dayna Danger, about the line between empowerment and objectification a...
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Conflict of Interest with Tyler Green and Catherine G. Wagley–Ep. 05 from 2018-09-17T23:13:25
In this episode of “Criticism in Conversation”, two art critics and historians discuss “conflict of interest” in contemporary art criticism. Tyler Green, the host of the popular Modern Art Notes Po...
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Art and Technology Criticism with Nora Khan–Ep. 04 from 2018-08-30T03:43:21
Two art and technology critics, Nora Khan and Mike Pepi, discuss pushing for a rigorous critical discourse in a creative field that can flatten evaluative distinctions in favor of zealotry for inve...
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Art Criticism vs. Journalism with Catherine G. Wagley and Julia Halperin–Ep. 03 from 2018-08-13T05:06:43
In the first episode of Momus’s new “Criticism in Conversation” podcast series, an art critic and an art journalist parse the differing responsibilities and approaches of their craft. Catherine G. ...
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The Venice Biennale–Ep. 01 from 2018-01-31T02:56:16
Welcome to the pilot episode of Momus: The Podcast. For our first broadcast, we focus on the historic Venice Biennale as the 57th edition opens to the public. We air a conversation on its history, ...
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The Artist Residency – Ep. 02 from 2017-12-12T19:34:38
Informing the artworld’s global economy and increasing professionalization, the artist residency has risen to the top, becoming one of the key features of contemporary art practice. Art critic and ...
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