31 YEARS OF THE ARTIST’S VOICE
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IS VIOLENCE INEVITABLE?: AN INTERVIEW WITH PIER MARTON
by Nov 04, 2009
In late October, The School of Visual Arts held its 23rd Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, entitled Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict.
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LE CADAVRE EXQUIS II
by Nov 02, 2009
Just six weeks left to go on the archive’s timeBOMB! Check out another hyperlinked collage and find out the latest past interviews we’ve posted!
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INCHING TOWARDS ABSTRACTION: LAUREN REDNISS
by Oct 29, 2009
A record keeper in both her drawings and story telling, Lauren Redniss holds tight to details to keep them from being stolen by the pitfalls of memory.
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DAVID RYAN
by Oct 28, 2009
David Ryan’s flamboyantly colored sculptural paintings are both economical and obsessive, creating an effect that interviewer Ryan Spencer describes as “Minimalism on mushrooms.” He’s currently showing work at Davidson Contemporary on Fifth Avenue.
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SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN POWER MITCH EPSTEIN
by Oct 21, 2009
Click through for a slideshow of images from Mitch Epstein’s latest book American Power, a collection of photos highlighting the American addiction to energy production and consumption.
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LOTHAR OSTERBURG AT LESLEY HELLER GALLERY
by Oct 19, 2009
At a first glance, Lothar Osterburg’s photographic works can be visually disorienting given the textural presence of their surfaces. This is because these are photogravures, prints—that is, works on paper—rather than photographs.
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PRESSING ISSUES: RECESSION ERA INDIE PUBLISHING
by Oct 16, 2009
Despite the economic climate and whatever bleak circumstances could engender movies like this, Milano Chow and Megan Plunkett, recent graduates from Barnard and Pratt, respectively, have been running their own independent printing presses.
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FRIEZE FRAME
by Oct 16, 2009
The annual Frieze Art Fair hosts galleries from over 30 countries in a massive exhibition space temporarily erected in Regent’s Park, London. Click through for a slideshow of images from this year’s show by photographer Michael Schuller.
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WEEK 8: CAPTURING FLUX
by Oct 16, 2009
We’ve got eight weeks to go until all our interviews are archived…Whether be it a poet writing a novel in three nights, men painted blue making music with Cap’n Crunch cereal, or a painter using the floor as her canvas, something unites the artists in BOMB’s interviews. Plucking through the archives over the past few weeks, it seems that several artists allude to a similar phenomenon in their work: an acknowledgement of the unknown.
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COMPOSITIONS BASED ON CHANCE
by Oct 12, 2009
Kadar Brock is focused on the abstract presentation of a fantastical world and creating an analogy for art making and viewing. The stripped down and simple patterning struck me with its rhythmical geometry.
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TINA SCHULA AND NICOLA KAST
by Oct 12, 2009
Tina Schula and Nicola Kast are both artists who deal with the lingering presence of Nazism in their work. They got together to discuss Quentin Tarantino’s recent movie Inglorious Basterds and tried to relate some of the questions that came up to their own photography.
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THE LABYRINTH
by Oct 09, 2009
The Sky Below, Stacey D’Erasmo’s most recent novel, explores the theme of flight in many realms.
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REGINA JOSé GALINDO AT EXIT ART
by Oct 07, 2009
Pretty arresting stuff from Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo at the opening of her terrific retrospective Friday night at Exit Art.
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CARTER AT SALON 94 FREEMANS
by Oct 01, 2009
Salon 94 Freemans recently opened for the season with an exhibition of new black-and-white pictures by the artist Carter. The images, made large-scale by tiling laser printouts, variously depict elegant interiors, figures, and marble sculptures.
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ROADWORKS: EXPERIMENTAL PRINTING WITH HEAVY MACHINERY
by Sep 30, 2009
Printmaker Michael Wertz lays his large-scale lino print on the asphalt of Rhode Island Street. Arms crossed, he waits for the steamroller to come by.
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THE REGULARS BY SARAH STOLFA
by Sep 28, 2009
There’s a frustration I face with modern photography—glossy spreads in magazines and head shots and landscapes. With the advent of Photoshop, everything just looks too perfect.
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DREAD SCOTT
by Sep 23, 2009
On the occasion of Dread Scott’s public art project …Or Does it Explode? in Philadelphia, the artist exchanged emails with BOMB Managing Editor Nick Stillman. Scott’s provocative work challenges pedestrians in Philadelphia’s bustling Logan Square to consider the fate of local high schoolers will be on view through November.
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WENDY WHITE
by Sep 21, 2009
Wendy White’s paintings are some of the most dynamic and edgy abstractions being made today. When I was first introduced to her work back in 2005, they were raw, brash, confident—everything that the art world was not at the time.
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JOHN SIMS
by Sep 11, 2009
Math artist John Sims kicks off his exhibition series at the Bowery Poetry Club tonight. Writer / curator A.M. Weaver spoke with him.
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NOT JUST A MAGAZINE
by Sep 09, 2009
Nathalie Ours-Choussat is the Editor in Chief of A Magazine curated by…, which biannually champions the unique voice of a fashion designer.
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MAKING GOOD: JONATHON KEATS
by Sep 04, 2009
Keats’ work creates an absurd world that may be uncomfortable to visit, but forces us to examine our own in an entirely new context. Emily Nonko puts the questions to the quester.
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OUTSIDE IN
by Sep 04, 2009
This week, From the Archive explores the exterior influences our interviewees have wrestled with—pressures that come at their artistic creations quietly from the side, and also those that come head-on.
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BERLIN CALLING: ALEXIS KNOWLTON
by Sep 02, 2009
This June Alexis Knowlton spoke at The Drawing Center’s colloquium on the “Power of Art.” Her topic was “S.L.A.T.”, Super Lame Art Thematization; calling attention to the corruption of the artist’s intention in the presence of evil middlemen.
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THE PRIMORDIAL CRY: CARABALLO-FARMAN
by Aug 28, 2009
Poet and essayist Kristin Prevallet talks to artists caraballo-farman about their series The Heirloom Plates, part of the exhibition Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Art Museum through September 4th.
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CHELSEA ON RITALIN: OAKLANDS ART MURMUR
by Aug 17, 2009
West-coast correspondent Christine Lagorio reports from the Oakland Art Murmur. Video after the jump.
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ART IN LATE SUMMER: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
by Aug 14, 2009
As we approach the event horizon of the summer—that nebulous, mid-August point when the season begins its imperceptible slip towards fall—the city pauses for a collective breath.
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AFTER COLOR: NEW LOOK FOR BLACK AND WHITE
by Aug 12, 2009
Michael Bühler-Rose and Matthew Gamber discuss the past, present, and future of black and white in an art world that’s been overtaken by large format color photography.
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BIG FACES: THE COOL KIDS OF THE RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE
by Aug 10, 2009
Throughout the early 1920s, Aleksandr Rodchenko took many photographs of his friends and colleagues. Some were snapshots, others author photos for book covers, and still others would be used in his propaganda collages for the Russian Telegraph Agency.
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THE CONDUIT
by Aug 10, 2009
I am wrapped in a universe of temporal distortion when looking at Mark Borthwick’s photography. His images and installations, a constant fixture in both the pages of the world’s leading fashion magazines and on the walls of museums and galleries, are dedicated to creating an awareness of who he is at that moment.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: TRANSFORMERS
by Aug 07, 2009
This week’s new round of archive interviews focuses on the boundaries of form and moments where style and politics run up against those boundaries.