31 YEARS OF THE ARTIST’S VOICE
LITERATURE
WHY IS POETRY IMPORTANT?
by Oct 02, 2009
The first time I saw Ryan Adams perform I was working at a free concert on July 4, 2003, in Battery Park. My job was to stand backstage and get whatever anyone needed—food, water, sun block.
ART
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.
ART
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.
LITERATURE
STEPHEN ELLIOT
by Sep 30, 2009
The Adderall Diaries, a nonfiction work written by Stephen Elliott and out this month, is not a book about Adderall. And though Elliott’s intent was to focus on the murder trial of Hans Reiser, It really isn’t even a book
EDITOR'S CHOICE
EMORY DOUGLAS: BLACK PANTHER
by Sep 29, 2009
Emory Douglas joined the Black Panther Party soon after it was formed in 1966, and quickly began to work on the party’s newspaper, the Black Panther.
ART
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.
LITERATURE
SUBTEXT: CHERYL DUMESNIL GETS UP
by Sep 28, 2009
Cheryl Dumesnil’s first book In Praise of Falling is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. It begins with the Zen proverb, “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” This proverb could be a mantra for any aspiring writer.
ART
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.
LITERATURE
SAVAGE BY JACQUES JOUET
by Sep 22, 2009
What, at this point in time, can we make of a man,” the narrator of Jacques Jouet’s most recent novella, Savage, asks himself.
ART
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.