“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty ...
This is her first exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim’s newest location—a historic townhouse turned gallery near Paseo de la ...
This episode features Abbas Akhavan, a Tehran-born artist based between Montreal and Berlin, who is representing Canada at ...
1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...
Abbas Akhavan (b. 1977, Tehran) has lived in Canada for the past thirty years and is currently based between Montréal and Berlin. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include the Walker Art Center, ...
In September 2018, word traveled of accusations of trans censorship by a Mohkinstsis (Calgarian) arts facility. The allegedly-censored video work in question, A Thousand Cuts (2018), by Montreal-based ...
In Continent of Misbelief at David Kordansky Gallery in New York, Jared Buckhiester stages American masculinity as a ritual of collapse and works inside what’s left of American power. Horse, chain, ...
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 ...
Between 1973 and 1978, Lynn Hershman Leeson hired photographers to document the life of her alter ego, Roberta Breitmore. Dressed in a glossy blond wig, white blouse, and polka-dot skirt, Hershman ...
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 ...
Sometimes called an alchemist, Azza El Siddique treats the act of making as just the beginning of a process that the artwork carries on. Her sculptures themselves have a collaborative hand. As a ...