From June 1942 until its dissolution in 1945, the Office of War Information (OWI) generated public support for World War II, ...

In the end, it almost seems like it was always meant to be this way. Khaled Sabsabi sat quietly beside his friend Michael ...

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 ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

So many books have been written on the art and music of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s that one imagines the texts on the much-romanticized period, stacked end to end, could reach the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary histories of Los Angeles seem to come in two main forms. The first, as exemplified by the indispensable work of the writer Mike Davis, deals with the existential problem of the city ...

Premiering at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 before opening this summer at the Broad in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition the space in which to place me is an earnest attempt at ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...