Best Momus Podcasts (2026)

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Minh Nguyen and Tiana Reid – Season 8, Bonus Episode 59:27

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Tune in to a special bonus episode of Momus: The Podcast featuring a live recording from the launch of writer and critic Minh Nguyen’s new book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam (Art Metropole & Wendy’s Subway, 2025). This event, co-presented by Art Metropole and Momus as part of the Momus Talks series, brought Nguyen into conversation with writer …

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Lucy Sante – Season 8, Episode 8 53:12

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Lucy Sante joins us for the finale of Season 8. The Belgian-born American critic, writer, and artist talks about her lifelong textual engagement with an extraordinary miscellany of culture and history. Sante shares the figures that have shaped her work, from a grade-school report on Nostradamus to Barbara Epstein, her editor at the New York Review …

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Andrii Ushytskyi – Season 8, Episode 7 56:13

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In the season’s penultimate episode, we feature Andrii Ushytskyi, a Kyiv-based writer, dancer, and co-editor of Solomiya, an independent magazine founded in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ushytskyi begins by reading a short essay by Natalia Ginzburg, “The Son of Man” (Unita, 1946), and then speaks with Sky Goodden about his ed…

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Re’al Christian, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Diana SeoHyung – Season 8, Episode 6 1:36:54

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This special summer episode includes a live recording of the Spring issue of Post/doc, co-published by Momus and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. The collaborative issue of the VLC’s biannual publishing series for discursive, speculative, experimental writing, and artistic practices features a new sound work by artist JJJJJerome Ellis and…

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Paul Chan – Season 8, Episode 5 1:02:31

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Paul Chan is an artist, writer, and former publisher. For this episode of Momus: The Podcast, Chan’s self-made automated doppelganger reads “Sade Today (after Judith Butler),” a piece he wrote for Evergreen (Spring/Summer 2025). He speaks to Sky Goodden about the implications of AI on writers (though they agree that criticism could present a specia…

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Meghan O'Rourke – Season 8, Episode 4 52:40

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In this episode, Meghan O'Rourke, poet, author and editor of The Yale Review, speaks frankly about pursuing a creative and professional life with chronic illness. Joining Lauren Wetmore in conversation, and following a reading from Susan Sontag's pivotal text "Illness as a Metaphor" (The New York Review of Books, 1979), which O'Rourke updated for t…

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Legacy Russell – Season 8, Episode 3 59:09

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In this episode, we feature Legacy Russell, the writer, curator, and Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, an artist-driven non-profit space in New York City. As a cultural critic she has published the books Glitch Feminism (Verso Books, 2020) and Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us (Verso Books, 2024), which questions h…

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Nizan Shaked – Season 8, Episode 2 59:28

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Nizan Shaked is our guest this month! Shaked is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Museum, and Curatorial Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and most recently the author of Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury, 2022). She speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the resources offered by criticality…

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Ajay Kurian – Season 8, Episode 1 1:01:50

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Season 8 of Momus: The Podcast launches with Ajay Kurian, an artist, critic, and co-founder of New Crits, a platform for artist mentorship. Kurian speaks with Sky Goodden about a text by Robert Pogue Harrison on the art of the zen garden (Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, University of Chicago Press, 2008), and about his artist-writer influ…

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Tiana Reid – Season 7, Episode 8 49:43

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Momus: The Podcast’s Season 07 finale features Tiana Reid, a Toronto-based critic and assistant professor of English at York University. Reid is a former editor at The New Inquiry and her writing has been featured in Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among others. She reads from an early influence on her practi…

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Claudia La Rocco – Season 7, Episode 7 56:28

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Esteemed critic and writer Claudia La Rocco speaks to Lauren Wetmore about being a “dance partisan” and how “language can nail things down in a way that dance doesn’t.” This wide-ranging conversation touches on artists including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Simone Forti, and Moriah Evans, through critics including Jill Johnston and Megan Metcalf, to consid…

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Niela Orr – Season 7, Episode 6 1:05:22

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Niela Orr is a culture writer and editor who has published in The Baffler, The Believer, and The Organist, among others. Since 2022 she has worked as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. In conversation with Sky Goodden, Orr discusses her editing as being rooted in service, and her abiding sense of responsibility to the writers that she works …

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Joshua Schwebel – Season 7, Episode 5 1:01:47

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Joshua Schwebel speaks to long-time collaborator Lauren Wetmore about their shared interest in closing the gap between how art is discursively framed and what it actually does. Schwebel’s artistic practice stems from a deep need to understand the world, coupled with an allergy to authority. “Art is rhetorically positioned as radical,” notes Schwebe…

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Carolina A. Miranda – Season 7, Episode 4 1:07:21

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Carolina A. Miranda, a longtime L.A. Times staff culture writer who has recently returned to the wilds of freelance, speaks to Sky Goodden about looking at things from both sides now. In working on a book proposal about the year she spent in Chile following the fall of Pinochet’s dictatorship, and in exploring new genres of writing for different pu…

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Fargo Nissim Tbakhi – Season 7, Episode 3 1:11:09

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Palestinian-American artist and writer Fargo Nissim Tbakhi speaks with Lauren Wetmore about the political implication of form through two texts: Tbakhi’s own piece "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" (Protean Magazine, 2023), and Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif’s “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasu…

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An Inflection Point in Art Publishing – Season 7, Episode 2 53:28

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Earlier this year, the Momus editorial team gathered for a talk at Plural Art Fair in Montreal. It marked the first time Sky Goodden, Catherine G. Wagley, Jessica Lynne, and Merray Gerges were all together IRL. The lively conversation touched on how we’ve shifted from a discourse of “crisis” in art criticism to its material reality; the ethics of e…

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Elvia Wilk – Season 7, Episode 1 1:09:05

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Launching Season 7, Elvia Wilk, an essayist, critic, and novelist, talks to Sky Goodden about the decision to quit writing—if only to be able to start again. In discussing rejection, the changing conditions of the field, and the denuding of successful female writers, Wilk also touches on the authors who have modeled quitting ("the authors of the no…

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Lara Khaldi – Season 6, Episode 8 54:42

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Lara Khaldi is our final guest on Season 6 of Momus: The Podcast. A curator, artist, writer, and educator, Khaldi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and currently lives in Amsterdam, where she has been newly appointed as director of de Appel. In this episode, Khaldi speaks to Lauren Wetmore about the Palestinian American artist, activist, and schola…

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Nasrin Himada – Season 6, Episode 7 59:53

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For the 50th (!) episode of Momus: The Podcast, Lauren Wetmore speaks to Nasrin Himada, a Palestinian curator and writer who is currently associate curator at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. "I write for my people. I write for Palestinians, and I write for the liberation of our lands," Himada says of the…

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Jessica Lynne and Catherine G. Wagley – Season 6, Episode 6 1:09:29

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In this episode, Jessica Lynne speaks with Catherine G. Wagley about their shared love for Barbara Christian’s iconically confrontational essay, “The Race for Theory” (1987, Cultural Critique). Christian, a ground-laying literary academic who introduced writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker to the academe, goes toe to toe with her peers in th…

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Kate Wolf - Season 6, Episode 5 1:01:35

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This episode features Kate Wolf, one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a critic whose work has appeared in publications including The Nation, n+1, Art in America, and Frieze. Wolf is currently an Editor at Large of the LARB and a co-host and producer of its weekly radio show and podcast, The LARB Radio Hour. In conversa…

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Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick - Season 6, Episode 4 1:07:13

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Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) joins Lauren Wetmore in conversation about Māhealani Dudoit’s fundamental text, “Carving a Hawaiian Aesthetic,” published in the first issue of ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal – He ‘oia mau nō kākou’, which Dudoit co-founded in 1998. Broderick, an artist, curator, and educator from Mōkapu, Oʻahu, champions t…

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Sháńdíín Brown - Season 6, Episode 3 1:07:12

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This episode features an interview with Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), continuing our series talking to participants in the Momus residency "Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency" co-hosted with Forge Project. Lauren Wetmore talks to Sháńdíín Brown, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and the first Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Nativ…

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Megan Tamati-Quennell - Season 6, Episode 2 42:20

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Throughout the season, Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden will speak with participants of the Momus residency, “Estuaries: An International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency,” created with Forge Project and led by Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi (Sāmoa) and Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish). To launch this series, Wetmore speaks with writer and curator Megan Tamat…

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Sky Goodden – Season 6, Episode 1 41:31

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To launch our sixth season, Lauren Wetmore interviews Sky Goodden on a book that has recently got her all "twirled up." They discuss Art Writing in Crisis (Sternberg Press, 2021) which sits adjacent to an exhausting list of books on art criticism in crisis and points instead to the emancipatory potential of criticism, and, as Goodden and Lauren ter…

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Jessica Lynne and Kemi Adeyemi - Season 5, Episode 10 1:10:34

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The season finale for Momus: The Podcast’s fifth season features a conversation between writer, art critic, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, Jessica Lynne, and Dr. Kemi Adeyemi, an “art-adjacent academic” and Director of The Black Embodiment Studio at the University of Washington. Adeyemi talks about her new book, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and th…

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Cecilia Alemani - Season 5, Episode 9 1:00:55

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For the penultimate episode of Season 5, Sky Goodden interviews Cecilia Alemani, the Artistic Director of the 59th Venice Biennale. After three years of research and commissioning (an extended period of preparation, due to the pandemic) and 7 months of The Milk of Dreams being open to an immense public, Alemani takes a rearview look onto a show tha…

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Meeka Walsh and Jarrett Earnest - Season 5, Episode 8 1:05:49

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On the occasion of her first book of collected art writings, Malleable Forms (ARP Books), Meeka Walsh, editor of Border Crossings magazine, speaks to guest-host Jarrett Earnest about geographic isolation, the eroticism of art writing, her connection with an emerging spiritual lineage, and about a set of relationships driving her engagement with art…

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Ben Davis - Season 5, Episode 7 1:23:17

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In the introduction to Ben Davis’s new book, a bracing and perspectival collection of essays titled Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket Books), he reflects that “the only thing that has grown faster than the demands on art has been doubt that art can respond adequately to those demands.” In a generous and thoughtful conversation with Sky Goodden, D…

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Arushi Vats - Season 5, Episode 6 1:19:01

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"We are post-purity," observes Arushi Vats, a Delhi-based writer and inaugural fellow of the Momus/Eyebeam Critical Writing Fellowship. Rooted in field research and expanded through poetics, Vat's text Exit the Rehearsal: A Body in Delhi, published by Runway Journal, is a precise yet capacious meditation on our "epoch of waste"— ecocide, legacy was…

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Rahel Aima – Season 5, Episode 5 1:23:00

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This month, Sky Goodden speaks with Rahel Aima, a prolific critic, art writer, and Associate Editor at Momus. We focus on a text Aima published in Momus, “Depleting Felix Gonzales-Torres” (July 2020), that takes aim at “a mammoth exhibition” of the late Gonzalez-Torres’s 1990 work Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner). Aima writes “In a move taken right…

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Raimundas Malašauskas – Season 5, Episode 4 59:33

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Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lithuanian curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas resigned as curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale, along with participating artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov, citing the war as “politically and emotionally unbearable.” Using his letter of resignation, which Mala…

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S2 E6 - Penniless prince, 'Brian The Goose: The Murders' & street magic nudity 40:01

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John Guff records his day off. Hear a trailer for a ShitFlix documentary series about a killer goose. Prince Gilbert is broke and tries to apply for benefits. Eleanor Thorne reports from a fascist rally. Madame Moonshine performs some questionable street magic. And let's not forget a S2 Finale song.

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Dana Kopel – Season 5, Episode 3 1:16:28

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In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in September 2021 by The Baffler. In conversation, Kopel expands on “the personal and messy dimensions” of unionizing work, and reflects on the challenges of calling out the exploita…

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S2 E3 - Gravy vaccines, 'WooHoo Fashion Camp' & live celebrity chef 38:31

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Poppy Cox unravels a meaty vaccine scandal. Jared Niceman talks to Stoke-based punk rockers: Tunstall Peapods. Hear an advert for the WooHoo Fashion Camp. Live cooking demo finale with Eleanor Thorne and celebrity chef, Andrea Tart.

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Harry Dodge – Season 5, Episode 2 1:26:30

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In this episode, artist and writer Harry Dodge reads from My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (Penguin Press, 2020). Perhaps best known as a sculptor, Dodge writes from inside the artist’s life and the sometimes inchoate density of a studio practice. Tracking us through cosmic patterns and material grapplings as they inter…

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S2 E1 - TikTok Travesty, 'Three Chairs and a Stool' & rapper Saint Momus sings live on the moon 47:57

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Jerry Bitter reports on the treachery of TikTok. Hear a trailer for Adam Sandler's new film: Three Chairs and a Stool. Prince Gilbert tries working retail. Musical finale live on the moon with superstar rap icon Saint Momus.

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Emmanuel Iduma – Season 5, Episode 1 1:15:49

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In the first episode of Season 5, Lauren Wetmore speaks with Nigerian art writer Emmanuel Iduma, who reads from “Mileage from Here: Nine Narratives.” Known for his travel and photography writing, and for establishing what he calls “a third, or shared, space between images and text,” the selection Iduma reads from (published in an exceptional presen…

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Kristian Vistrup Madsen - Season 4, Episode 9 1:16:01

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In the penultimate episode of Season 4 – across which Momus: The Podcast has been engaging writers on the genesis and reception of a particular piece of criticism – Sky Goodden speaks with Kristian Vistrup Madsen about writing Artforum Diary through the pandemic, and bringing the historic column to a more isolated, romantic, existential, and someti…

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Muna Mire & Tourmaline – Season 4, Episode 8 48:43

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This episode gets a jump on summer with artist and filmmaker Tourmaline and writer and producer Muna Mire. In conversation, they discuss Mire’s profile of Toumaline in Frieze (October 2020) and elaborate on Tourmaline's celebration of trans histories, queer joy, community organizing, Black freedom, communing with her chosen ancestries, and what she…

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Nora N. Khan on “Within, Below, and Alongside” – Season 4, Episode 7 1:20:09

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“A school will change you, and it teaches you as much about how people will interpret you, misunderstand and dismiss you, as it will teach you about a creative life.”Critic, curator, and educator Nora N. Khan reads from "Dark Study: Within, Below, and Alongside," a feature text published in the inaugural issue of March, which starts with the questi…

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Alexandra Stock on “The Privileged, Violent Stunt” – Season 4, Episode 6 1:00:37

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Lauren Wetmore interviews Swiss American curator and writer Alexandra Stock about her scathing critique of Christophe Büchel’s 2019 Venice Biennale project Barca Nostra. Published that same year by the independent Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr, Stock’s "The Privileged, Violent Stunt That is the Venice Biennale Boat Project" decries an “artwor…

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Rianna Jade Parker on “Letter from London” – Season 4, Episode 5 1:14:58

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Rianna Jade Parker reads "Letter from London: What is the Status of Black Artists in England Today?" published in ARTnews (June 2020), and engages Sky Goodden on issues of artworld access, stature, masculinity, precariousness, deference to sovereignty, and duty to one another, for Black British artists working in the UK. From Steve McQueen's accept…

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Culture My Arts Trailer 2:05

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You are about to enter an absurd, psychedelic and distorted world of arts & culture. This trailer is but a mere taste of the Culture My Arts experience. Get ready for fake news from another dimension.

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Léuli Eshrāghi on tagatavāsā – Season 4, Episode 4 56:00

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In episode 4, Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi discusses "tagatavāsā," a text centered on Eshrāghi's grandmother's art practice that interweaves Indigenous language with the vernacular of contemporary art. Eshrāghi works across visual arts, curatorial practice, and university research, "intervening in display territories to centre Indigenous kin constellations, …

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S1 E6 - Natural selection hospital, violent country music & live alcohol binge 36:35

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In our Series 1 Finale, Poppy Cox reports on the UK's first 'Natural Selection Hospital'. Jerry Bitter investigates violent country music. Willie Kazoo busts the taboo of alcohol. Frank Sod reads your Series 1 reviews before a farewell song.

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Tausif Noor on “Hand in Glove” – Season 4, Episode 3 49:08

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“Like writing, fisting is both a replicable skill and a rarefied art form.” This brachioproctic line begins writer Tausif Noor’s “Hand In Glove” (Artforum, 12 April 2019), a joyfully loaded review of William E. Jones’s novel I’m Open to Anything, released in 2019 by Los Angeles independent publisher We Heard You Like Books. In this searching conver…

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Nikki Columbus on “Guston Can Wait” – Season 4, Episode 2 1:07:05

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"Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism."This has been critic Nikki Columbus's refrain through the past season, issuing what many considered the final word of a furious debate surrounding the postponement of a Guston retrospective. Titled "Guston Can Wait" and published October 27, 2020 in N+1, the text (wh…

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Nikki Columbus on "Guston Can Wait" - Season 4, Episode 2 1:07:05

5y ago1:07:05

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"Let’s stop talking about Philip Guston and start talking about structural racism." This has been critic Nikki Columbus's refrain through the past season, issuing what many considered the final word of a furious debate surrounding the postponement of a Guston retrospective. Titled "Guston Can Wait" and published October 27, 2020 in N+1, the text (w…

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S1 E5 - 'Ending' discrimination, TV comedy guide & live agony aunt phone-in 33:24

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Kwame King visits a village that claims to have ended discrimination. Lenny Bing-Bong reviews the best comedy on TV. A live agony aunt phone-in is hosted with Aunt Vicky. Hear songs and an interview with hip-hop duo: Dubble Yellows.