The Garden Lingered

Momus 2025

1 online resource (1 audio file)

"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.""-- provided by distributor.

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