Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the ...

It’s an understatement to say that Michael Asher was a site-specific artist. His work quietly—but insistently—demands ...

celador is a collective space for doing things with words, founded in 2023 by a reading group of ten curators working on the intersection of visual art and writing. celador does not organize ...

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Kemi Adeyemi, Sky Goodden, Tiana Reid, Molly Kleiman. Independent arts publishing is under pressure—financially, politically, and structurally. What does it take not just ...

This episode features M. Neelika Jayawardane, a writer and scholar whose work is informed by Southern Africa’s history, and ...

Our Residencies, Fellowships, Talks and events provide opportunities for critical inquiry, peer networking, and professional development. Momus Programs extend the publication’s commitment to ...

To Build and Sustain is a convening for independent art publishing organized by Momus, inviting publishers and editors from across Canada and the US to share resources, strengthen peer networks, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Find the second, by Lisa Hsiao Chen, here. “I wanted to ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

The best way to fuck something up is to give it a body. A voice is killed when it is given a body. Whenever there’s a body around you see its faults. Theory proves that. —Mike Kelley, Dialogue #1 (An ...