Art Critic
Monica Cosby
Monica Cosby is a visual art critic and essayist covering contemporary painting, sculpture, and emerging artists at the intersection of material culture and lived experience. She writes about the conditions under which art gets made as much as the art itself, and believes that institutional critique is most useful when it names something specific.
54 articles
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Yeule's Practice Has Always Been Art First. Evangelic Girl Is a Gun Proves It.
June 2, 2026 ·
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Divide and Dissolve's Doom Has Always Been About What Gets Named
May 31, 2026 ·
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Toyin Ojih Odutola Builds the House and Fills It with the Dead
May 26, 2026 ·
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Zanele Muholi and the Politics of the Black Gaze: Somnyama Ngonyama Rewrites the Visual Archive
May 23, 2026 ·
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Actress Has Been Designing the Architecture of Electronic Music Since 2008
May 22, 2026 ·
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Dev Hynes and the Memory Machine: Blood Orange's Essex Honey
May 19, 2026 ·
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Kara Walker and the Shadow History of America
May 18, 2026 ·
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Amy Sherald and the Gray That Holds Everything
May 15, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Making Space for Grief Inside the Image
May 13, 2026 ·
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Toyin Ojih Odutola and the Mark That Keeps Speaking
May 12, 2026 ·
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The House That Grief Built: Toyin Ojih Odutola's Dual Exhibition Reckons With Loss and Language
May 11, 2026 ·
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Tschabalala Self Is Remaking What a Monument Can Look Like
May 10, 2026 ·
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Paints People Who Do Not Exist and Makes You Feel Like You Know Them
May 9, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Kara Walker's Silhouettes and the Weight of Absence
April 26, 2026 ·
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Kara Walker's A Subtlety and the Weight of Sugar
April 26, 2026 ·
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Kerry James Marshall and the Work of Representation
April 26, 2026 ·
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Rashid Johnson's Materials and the Weight of Black Anxiety
April 26, 2026 ·
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Jenny Holzer Has Always Known That Language Is a Site of Power
April 22, 2026 ·
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Emma Westenberg: The Director Who Makes the Body a Canvas
April 16, 2026 ·
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Duchamp at MoMA 2026: The Retrospective That Arrives Exactly on Time
April 5, 2026 ·
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Helen Frankenthaler at Basel: Correcting a 60-Year Injustice
April 5, 2026 ·
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MoMA's Duchamp Retrospective Asks the Only Question That Still Matters
April 4, 2026 ·
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The Banksy Exhibition Problem: Who Is Profiting From an Artist Who Refuses to Profit?
April 3, 2026 ·
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A Nation of Artists: Philadelphia Mounts the Most Ambitious American Art Survey in Memory
April 3, 2026 ·
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We Buy Souls: RABI Towing's Genius Assault on Everything You Think Art Is
April 3, 2026 ·
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The Chelsea Exodus: Why New York's Galleries Are Leaving Their Most Famous Neighborhood
March 25, 2026 ·
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Museums Are Showing AI Art Now and Nobody Knows How to Feel About It
March 18, 2026 ·
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Art Basel 2025: The Year the Art Market Found Its Footing
December 15, 2025 ·
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: An 18 Million Dollar Warhol and the Dawn of Zero 10
December 7, 2025 ·
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Art Basel Paris 2025: 206 Galleries Under the Grand Palais Glass
October 26, 2025 ·
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Art Basel Basel 2025: 88,000 Visitors, Millions in Sales, One Katharina Grosse Takeover
June 22, 2025 ·
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2025: Asia's Art Market Announces Itself
March 30, 2025 ·
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Frieze London 2024 Revealed an Art Market in Anxious Transition
October 12, 2024 ·
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James Turrell's Light Keeps Traveling and We Keep Following It
June 5, 2024 ·
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Hernan Bas Paints Florida Like It's Already a Myth
May 13, 2024 ·
3 min read
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The 2024 Venice Biennale Asked the Right Questions About Who Gets to Make Art
April 25, 2024 ·
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Paints People Who Don't Exist and Makes You Miss Them
March 18, 2024 ·
3 min read
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Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms Continue to Prove That Great Art Needs No Explanation
February 10, 2024 ·
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Jenny Holzer's Words Still Land Like a Punch Thirty Years Later
January 22, 2024 ·
3 min read
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The AI Art War Is Not a Debate About Technology -- It Is a Fight Over the Soul of Creativity
January 18, 2024 ·
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Rirkrit Tiravanija Cooks Food in Galleries and It's One of the Most Radical Acts in Art
November 6, 2023 ·
3 min read
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Discovering Pacita Abad Felt Like Finding a Room You Didn't Know Existed
September 25, 2023 ·
3 min read
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Kara Walker at the Tate and the Weight of a Room That Doesn't Let You Off the Hook
July 10, 2023 ·
3 min read
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Immersive Van Gogh Shows Forced a Question Nobody Wanted to Answer
May 22, 2023 ·
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Lauren Halsey Built a Pyramid in Venice and Somehow It Made Complete Sense
May 15, 2023 ·
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Henry Taylor Paints the People Nobody Else Is Painting
April 24, 2023 ·
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Documenta's Aftermath Exposed Fault Lines the Art World Cannot Repair
March 28, 2023 ·
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Theaster Gates Turns Archives Into Cathedrals
March 20, 2023 ·
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Korakrit Arunanondchai Makes Work That Lives Between Grief and Rave
November 7, 2022 ·
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Cecily Brown's Paintings Are Violent in the Best Way
September 12, 2022 ·
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Zanele Muholi and the Act of Insisting on Visibility
June 13, 2022 ·
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Simone Leigh at Venice and the Weight of That Golden Lion
April 25, 2022 ·
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Julius Eastman Deserved the World and the World Is Only Now Catching Up
March 7, 2022 ·
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Peter Doig Paints Loneliness Better Than Anyone Alive
February 28, 2022 ·
3 min read
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