BOMB 112/Summer 2010
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Watch one of Minter’s Food Porn commercial slots and listen to a podcast of her speaking about her new monograph at Strand Books in Manhattan.
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.
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.
The BOMBLive Artists & Curators’ Series continues with John Johnson, interviewed by curator Grady Turner at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Fall 2002.
In this installment of the BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series, author and psychiatrist Mark Epstein sits down with painter Carroll Dunham at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Fall 2002.
Ned Smyth by Keith Sonnier, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces. This is an edited transcript of the video interview.
Listen to a BOMBLive! A fall 2002 interview with artist Rackstraw Downes by author Philip Lopate at the New Museum. Downes has a show up at the Parish Art Museum in Southampton through August 8th.
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.
Watch a BOMBLive! Ned Smyth by Keith Sonnier, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
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.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE Painter Trevor Winkfield and writer Maggie Paley meet at Winkfield’s studio to discuss Winkfield’s graphic, disquieting, and bizarrely ceremonial paintings.
Watch a BOMBLive! Artist Judy Pfaff talks with Betsy Sussler in this Art:21 co-production filmed at the New York Public Library.
Watch a BOMBLive! Author A.M. Homes interviews painter Eric Fischl as part of “The Figure in Narrative” Series, filmed at the New York Academy of Art in Lower Manhattan.
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.
Watch a BOMBLive! Author and cultural theorist Giuliana Bruno interviews Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT at the premiere of “In the Open: Art and Architecture in Public Spaces” at SculptureCenter.
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!
Watch a BOMBLive! Artists Ellen Driscoll and Anita Glesta discuss their use of ephemeral materials, history, and the power of memory and storytelling as a part of “In the Open: Art and Architecture for Public Spaces,” filmed at Proteus Gowanus Gallery.
Watch a BOMBLive! Novelist Mei Chin interviews painter Dana Schutz as part of “The Figure in Narrative” Series, filmed at the New York Academy of Art in Lower Manhattan.