Momus: The Podcast

Author: Momus

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 dedicated to transparent conversations with an international cast of artists, curators, critics, and art writers. Momus: The Podcast is in its 6th season and was named one of the top ten art podcasts by The New York Times in March 2020. Subscribe on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. If you would like to advertise on Momus: The Podcast, please contact Chris Andrews, Sales Director, at chrisandrews@momus.ca.
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Lucy Sante – Season 8, Episode 8
Tuesday, 21 October, 2025

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 of Books, to her various writing students across twenty years of teaching at Columbia and Bard. For her “meaningful text,” Sante focuses on Manny Farber, an early inspiration whose writing "infected me from the word go." She reads from his essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (Film Culture, No. 27, Winter 1962/63), an electric ode to "termite tapeworm-fungus-moss art ... that goes always forward eating its own boundaries."Momus: The Podcast is edited by Jacob Irish, with production assistance from Chris Andrews.Thanks to this episode’s sponsors, Rabkin Foundation, PHI, and Esker Foundation, for supporting our work.Thanks to Lucy Sante for her contribution to this season.