BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Web Exclusive Jean Pagliuso sits down with artist and ceramicist Toni Ross to discuss Cycladic art, coil pots and Ross’s recent show at Ricco/Maresca.
WEB EXCLUSIVE With the release of Martha Wilson Sourcebook, the artist looks back on her 40-year career and discusses the origins of Franklin Furnace, the flexibility of identity, and the difficulty of staying visible with age.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Michèle Gerber Klein and Maurizio Cattelan “read” his new magazine Toilet Paper. The retrospective Maurizio Cattelan: All opens November 4 at the Guggenheim Museum.
Watch a BOMBLive!: Sharon Hayes + Lawrence Wiener, part of the series In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces, filmed in Weiner’s studio in Greenwich Village, Spring 2010.
Read a BOMBLive! unedited transcript of the video interview: Tina Barney interviewed by Michele Gerber-Klein at 192 Books in March 2011.
WEB EXCLUSIVE From big-box stores, thrift shops to dead malls, photographer Brian Ulrich has captured the US landscape of consumption for a decade—unflatteringly but never without empathy. Lynn Saville prompts him to elaborate on his vision and travels.
This is an unedited transcript of the BOMB on the Scene video interview: Gregory Crewdson interviewed by Richard Goldstein in September 2010.
WEB EXCLUSIVE With MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times, Deborah Kass continues her dialogue with postwar pop culture. She discusses appropriation, being Jewish, lesbian, and ever passionate about painting with art historian Irving Sandler.
WEB EXCLUSIVE How does the formless become form? Jane Dickson speaks with the sculptor Arlene Shechet on the eve of her one-woman exhibit at Jack Shainman Gallery––about time and the Buddhist precept of paying attention.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Joe Scanlan has been hiring diverse black actors to play the fictional emerging artist Donelle Woolford at art openings and lectures. With poet Jeremy Sigler, he delves into the project’s intricacies and uncomfortable implications.
Read a BOMBLive! unedited transcript of this video interview: Sharon Hayes and Lawrence Weiner in conversation at Weiner’s studio in May 2010.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculptures interweave handcrafted family artifacts with generic, mass-produced objects in an attempt to “reclaim nostalgia as a viable language.” She and Elad Lassry discuss how her bohemian upbringing shapes her work.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Travel writing is a known genre, but travel painting? Mike Glier and Roberto Juarez walk through Glier’s current exhibition of landscape paintings made in Ecuador, the Canadian Arctic, New York & St. John—a global line of longitude.
WEB EXCLUSIVE The Venezuelan artist who once replicated her apartment in a Caracas museum revisits key performances, discussing her personal measurement unit (the anto) and the fauna she researches in her apartment.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortly before the release of his latest book, American Power—photos highlighting the American addiction to energy production and consumption—Mitch Epstein divulges what inspired the project and how he next plans to make it public.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Sculptor Rona Pondick on bodily fragmentation and the manipulation of the museum at her Worcester Art Museum exhibition.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Quinlan’s photographs picture—literally—smoke and mirrors; Beshty makes photos without a camera. They meet on a New York Chinatown rooftop to discuss their work.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Ned Smyth interviewed by Keith Sonnier in the summer of 2009, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Painter Trevor Winkfield and writer Maggie Paley meet at Winkfield’s studio to discuss Winkfield’s graphic, disquieting, and bizarrely ceremonial paintings.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Josephine Meckseper’s sparkling display cases combine vintage consumables with references to protest movements. Through these installations and appropriated advertisements she probes how nostalgia and romanticism compromise dissent.
A video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four. Writer and filmmaker Michael Almereyda joins An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session.
WEB EXCLUSIVE As part of their “True Mirror” project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Dexter Sinister has set up a mirror press office at the Commander’s Room of the 7th Regiment Armory. Visit them in person and read about them here!
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Judy Pfaff interviewed by Betsy Sussler at the New York Public Library in March 2008.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Ellen Driscoll and Anita Glesta in conversation at Proteus Gowanus Gallery in December 2007.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Krystof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City in October 2007.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Lorenzo Pace interviewed by Patricia Spears Jones at the New York Academy of Art in November 2005.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Dana Schutz interviewed by Mei Chin at the New York Academy of Art in November 2005.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Eric Fischl interviewed by A.M. Homes at The New York Academy of Art in October 2005.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Thelma Golden has a conversation with Betsy Sussler standing in for Glenn Ligon in which they discuss African American artists, The Whitney, and Glenn Ligon’s refusal to use his Palm Pilot.
