Kelly Devine Thomas on the stranger sides of Google, and the unlikely combination of Bernie Madoff and Mark Kostabi.
Kelly Devine Thomas reflects on her experiences in the art world, and the relationship between money and art.
Kris Chatterson interviews painter Eric Freeman.
Bay Area artists Goertz Giffen and Andrew Marcy discuss the ways that music, imagery and community influence their work.
Still in debt from all those degrees? Aftersputnik wants to help you out!
In this edition of BOMB on the Inside, David Goodman chats with artist Vadis Turner about her transformative, material inspired sculptures and installations.
Alec Quig and Will Steacy discuss Steacy’s work and what it means to photograph “the rough side of town.”
David Goodman and Interview magazine editor Glenn O’Brien discuss the future and past of the magazine.
In this week’s Outspoken, Kelly Devine Thomas reflects on the work of Martin Kippenberger.
David Goodman and Interview magazine editor Glenn O’Brien discuss the future and past of the magazine.
In Jeremy Deller’s project “It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq” journalists, veterans, refugees and scholars converse about their experiences over the past ten years.
Photographers Matt Siber and Alec Quid discuss Siber’s work, and the imagined—yet very real—space that it occupies.
David Goodman and Tim Goossens discuss the Kenneth Anger exhibition at PS 1, where Goossens is an Assistant Curator.
Biding your time until you become a famous artist? Tell us what you do to pay the bills!
Trina Gordon and Dario Robleto discuss the current exhibition at D’Amelio Terras Gallery where Gordon is the Associate Director.
Christine Lagorio reflects on the peaceful Wings for Words: New Bookworks from Korea and Japan at the San Francisco Center for the Book.
Johannesburg to New York, a joint exhibition by Samson Mnisi and Cannon Hersey, at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts succeeds, ultimately, at inspiring unity.
In this, an exhibit about secrets—an exercise in exhuming “redactions” as Jenny Holzer titles several of the paintings her show—it seems too easy to say that the work combines the personal with the political, the body with its relationship to war.
Lisa Cooley’s creative vision for her gallery, Lisa Cooley Fine Art in New York City’s Lower East Side, showcases her pleasurable perception. Her keen eye, and introspective understanding bring youthful clarity to the deep and poetic artwork she exhibits.
In Fernando Mastrangelo’s “LoVE is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…” at KUMUKUMU, love is presented as painful, cloying, very temporary, and frequently cliché
Benjamin Godsill, curatorial associate of the New Museum, talks about the Urban China exhibition he curated.
Emily Warner reviews Luca Buvoli’s Instant Before Incident at Susan Inglett Gallery.
The film Warhol: Denied follows Joe Simon’s attempts to get his Andy Warhol self-portrait authenticated, raising questions of authorship and the definition of Art.
In this edition of OUTSPOKEN, Kelly Devine Thomas reflects on the new exhibition GREED, A New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli at Gagosian in Rome.
Mary Lum combines comic strips and photos in her paintings and collages to create spontaneous, obsessive, architectural pieces.
Mary-Ann Monforton on Jane Dickson’s show Night Driving at Marlborough Gallery.
Kelly Devine Thomas on Mike Kelley, “I said if each one of these toys took 600 hours to make then that’s 600 hours of love; and if I gave this to you, you owe me 600 hours of love; and that’s a lot.”
Betsy Sussler reports on Mary Heilmann’s Two-Lane Blacktop show at 303 Gallery in February ‘09.
Ben discovers a disturbing winter wonderland inside a painted over window and snaps a picture. He encourages others to submit their camera phone art to the blog.
Nick Stillman laments the lack of humor in Richard Prince’s latest gallery show, citing quotes from past BOMB interviews with Barbara Kruger and Marvin Heiferman.