Momus: The Podcast

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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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Ajay Kurian – Season 8, Episode 1
Tuesday, 18 March, 2025

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 influences including Robert Smithson, Paul Chan, and Hannah Black. He also touches on his recent response (in Cultured Mag) to Dean Kissick's screed on identity politics (in Harper’s), and what it required to “clean the public restroom” in the wake of Kissick’s feature going viral. “I think I was more upset by how bad the piece was than the ideas in the piece. […] I think especially for artists of color, like none of that stuff is new to us. And to think that there was massive progress … it could all be taken away in a second. I'm not holding it as new solid ground.”Kurian’s solo exhibition Peanuts (Deluxe) is on view at 47 Canal in New York through March 22. Many thanks for this episode’s sponsors, CONTACT Photography Festival, Plural Art Fair, and Workman Arts, for their support of our work.Thank you to Jacob Irish, our editor, and Chris Andrews, for production assistance.