Daoist tradition teaches that at the time of death, souls journey to their next dimension by taking flight on cranes. Regarded as symbols ...

Donasia Tillery. Donasia Tillery is a writer, editor, and poet based in New York. Her work explores the intersections of race, gender, structural trauma, and spirituality, and has ...

This is the first of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027.

Coco Fusco’s breakout came three decades ago at a high watermark of debates over identity politics and multiculturalism, movements she has assiduously critiqued ever since. Now in a political climate ...

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 ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its yellow cover reflect and shimmer. It’s not a rigid object but a source of ...

Tilt your ear to a Jack Whitten painting and you might hear music. “You gotta be able to think like John Coltrane to do what I am doing in painting,” the artist said in the final decade of his life.

At three intervals throughout Vijay Masharani’s eighteen-minute video Good Attack (2021), the camera fixates on a sign hanging in a pet store above the cash register. The letters on the sign are ...

When I used the term “Muslim body” in my curatorial note* for an exhibition in New Delhi last year, I did not anticipate the extent to which it would draw institutional ire. I had used it as an ...

A soft, warm light morphs into a shadow of a woman’s braided hair on the back of her neck. There is the sound of faint footsteps as she moves around her flat, shifting objects in the kitchen, the ...

The late artist Carole Caroompas was once asked why rock and roll provided such generative source material for her paintings and performance art. Caroompas had frequented shows since her teenage years ...