Mousse #95
235 x 325 mm, 256 pages (with A1 fold-out poster)
Milan, Italy (English-language)
Quarterly
First published in 2006
Editor-in-chief: Barbara Casavecchia
Art director: Francesco Valtolina
Large-format quarterly Mousse gives a platform to international criticism of contemporary culture, commissioning essays and artwork each issue.
This Spring 2026 edition is guest edited by Cameroonian art critic Christine Eyene who worked alongside the editorial team to revisit the Black British Arts movement, recognising that—as the Mousse team assert in their editorial—‘it takes time and long-durational energies for radical shifts to occur and for experiences to travel across generations.’
Looming large over this edition are the sentiments shared by Toni Morrison in her 1993 Nobel Prize lecture—which readers can find reprinted in the ‘Fiction’ section of this issue—and the wisdom of Lubaina Himid, whose words, ‘Trying to solve something by doing something’, run along the spine of this edition.
Inside, Ingrid Masondo and Christine Eyene reflect on censorship within the art world and its ‘political economies’, overt and obtuse mechanisms of power, and Gabrielle Goliath’s ongoing artwork ‘Elegy’; Serubiri Moses considers the legacy of the late art critic and curator Bisi Silva, honing in on Silva’s advocacy for feminist and queer artists and drawing on her own observations across African Art in recent years; and Amal Khalaf recounts her experience of artist Joshua Woolford’s performance ‘dancing with the devil/a symphony of scattered over the floor’, analysing its disorienting yet recalibrating effect.