BOMB 113/Fall 2010
BOMB 113/Fall 2010 cover

NED SMYTH by Keith Sonnier

Watch a BOMBLive! Ned Smyth by Keith Sonnier, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.

BOMB 36/Summer 1991
BLAST FROM THE PAST

VITO ACCONCI

by Richard Prince

Richard Prince quizzes the legendary architect and installation artist Vito Acconci on everything from pornography to childhood memories to films that make him cry in this fast-paced, in-depth interview from 1991.

 
EVENTS

BOMB EVENTS

by BOMB Magazine

Join authors Rivka Galchen & Nick Flynn and the staff of BOMB Magazine for the last stop of LitCrawl NYC, with the much-anticipated return of live BOMB-aoke!!

BOMB 93/Fall 2005
BLAST FROM THE PAST

YINKA SHONIBARE

by Anthony Downey

Critic and curator Downey queries the 2004 Turner Prize nominee about the excess of carnival and its inversion of power. Shonibare’s latest project, the film Odile and Odette, updates Swan Lake to reflect an ambiguous contemporary morality.

Web Only/Posted Apr 2010
FILM

RALPH BAKSHI

by Morgan Miller

The legendary animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, innovator of documents of generational angst like Fritz the Cat and Coonskin, has turned to visual art.

BOMB 100/Summer 2007
BLAST FROM THE PAST

KARA WALKER

by Matthea Harvey

Walker’s charged antebellum imagery has engendered heated debate. Poet Matthea Harvey charts the personal and historical sources of its provocation.

Web Only/Posted Aug 2010
MUSIC

MICHAEL ROTHER

by Nick Hallett

Michael Rother is perhaps best known as one half of German rock group Neu!, whose three-album body of work from the 1970’s is widely considered to be among the most unique and soaringly beautiful music of the era.

BOMB 111/Spring 2010
FILM

PATRICIA CLARKSON

by Howard Altmann

With major roles in over 30 films in the past decade, Patricia Clarkson has transcended the ageist stereotype of the American female actor. The star of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and the upcoming Cairo Time talks with poet Howard Altmann.

 
SHOP

BOMB: THE T-SHIRT

by BOMB Magazine

Screen-printed 100% cotton unisex Black T-shirt. Classic BOMB logo, in white, printed on front.

BOMB 112/Summer 2010
ART

DAN ASHER

by Ben Berlow

The final poignant interview with the prolific, irrepressible, and—to anyone who met him—unforgettable New York artist Dan Asher, who passed away of Leukemia on April 23, 2010

 
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BOMB 104/Summer 2008
HOT THEN, HOT NOW

BOREDOMS

by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

Seven is to good fortune what eight is to infinity. The legendary Japanese noise band Boredoms on how their inimitable sound bridges Japan’s ancient folklore with world music, hardcore, and, yes, even cosmic disco.

Christian Marclay, ??Virtuoso??, 2000, altered accordion, approximately 25' long. Photo: Tom Powel. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery. BOMB 84/Summer 2003
HOT THEN, HOT NOW

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

by Ben Neill

Christian Marclay’s solo exhibition, Festival, is up now at the Whitney. Ben Neill interviews the sonic visionary in this 2003 conversation.