Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that her work Elegy was selected to represent South Africa at the 61 st ...

But in his series All Night Menu, the writer and publisher Sam Sweet offers yet a third, new form of LA history: that of the ...

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 ...

Many international biennales have come to replace the single artistic director with a curatorial collective, ostensibly to decentralize authority. Yet a change in structure alone does not guarantee ...

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 ...

Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne of intersex outsider art, a ...

Visiting AMPHI Gallery for the first time, I was led to the back entrance near a nondescript row of parking spaces, lined up in front of rear doorways in a new development in Pasadena, California. It ...

In my book, Spoiled, I engage with a group of contemporary Asian American artists who expose and unravel the expectation that their work should heal and repair the wounds of racial difference as ...

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 ...

“A win-win situation is when both Pixy and Moro benefit from each other at the same time,” reads one entry in artist Pixy Liao’s book PIMO Dictionary (2018). “This situation is very hard to achieve.” ...

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 ...

In a large room, yellow glass bulbs were suspended from the ceiling, arranged like pendulums in a Newton’s cradle, lingering precariously about a foot from the floor. Their color resulted from ...