BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by Peter Moysaenko, features fiction by Jesse Ball and art by Sophie Jodoin.

In Memoriam: Mike Kelley, 1955–2012. With influences as diverse as his mediums, Kelley remains one of the most important artists of the late 20th century.

John Reed takes notes (and footnotes) on the career of art animus Stuart Sherman, using the new catalog Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing as a jumping-off point.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO Artist Pedro Reyes talks to Terence Gower about his lecture video New Utopias which investigates utopian fantasies from Funkadelic to Jacques Demy to Sun Ra. Watch an exclusive clip.

Peter Bebergal and Jeffrey J. Kripal on the experience of pop culture and its mystical and mythological implications.

Since the late ‘80s, Olafur Eliasson has been evolving a body of “objectless” work ranging from discrete installations to museum-wide environments, employing shifting frames of reference that are shared with science, psychology and architecture.

Fiction for Driving Paul La Farge reads form his novel Luminous Airplanes in the fourteenth installment of BOMB’s literary podcast series. Read a conversation between La Farge and Peter Orner in BOMB 118.

The man behind the Reanimation Library, an assemblage of discarded texts and cultural detritus, talks to BOMBlog about how to put life back into a wide range of works.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO Watch a BOMB Extra Video with artist Bjorn Copeland, whose work is featured in First Proof, BOMB’s literary supplement.

Heir to the American visionary tradition, Bill Jensen’s art evolves through an intuitive process grounded in the act of painting. Poet John Yau tracks a lifetime. Jensen’s work is at Cheim & Read through February 18.

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