A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy ...

Anna Aguiar Kosicki lives and works in Chicago. They are a current member of the Public Theater's Critics Lab, and have ...

The feeling arrived as a sense of wanting to get away. Then I thought I was too hot, my frequent complaint, never voiced, ...

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk’s writing has appeared in n+1, Tin House, The Believer, and Alta Journal, and is forthcoming in ...

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 ...

Last year, from my parents’ windows in Penang, Malaysia, a dark arm of sand appeared on the surface of the water. It was small and skeletal, with an exposed spine and arteries: dredging pipes that ...

The Momus Critical Writing Fellowship provides sustained mentorship, editorial support, and network-building to early-career art writers, critics, and publishers. The third cohort of the Fellowship ...

Recently, I’ve been enjoying art that disappears. Art that combusts, implodes, melts, burns; that’s what I’m after. Google Gustav Metzger’s singed, barely-there canvases, for example, which he burned ...

Historical hypocrisies are thus made into moments of sincere personal shortcomings rather than situated as forms of systemic oppression essential to the construction of the world’s most merciless ...

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 ...

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 ...

When my family left Seoul for New York, my mother’s struggle henceforth became one of reclaiming her life as a homemaker, which she felt she was at risk of losing when she began what would become a ...