ART
FROM THE ARCHIVE: TRANSFORMERS

by Kyle McAuley Aug 07, 2009

Auburn Rural Studio, Harris House “Butterfly,” designed and built by second-year students. Image courtesy of Timothey Hursley. (Samuel Mockbee by Judy Hudson, BOMB 75).

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.

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MUSIC
HELOISE AND THE SAVOIR FAIRE

by Nicole Steinberg Aug 05, 2009

The live of show of Heloise and the Savoir Faire is a celebration of all things glittery and golden, Blondie meets Barnum and Bailey.

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LITERATURE
LITTLE FINGERS BY FILIP FLORIAN

by Galina Arnaut Aug 03, 2009

Little Fingers by Filip Florian is a “novel about a little town and a big discovery.” In present-day Romania, a mass grave, “a torrent of human bones that had not fallen from the heavens like rain, but emerged from the earth near a subsided wall,” is happened upon.

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LITERATURE
SUBTEXT: THE BIBGRAPHICAL HELIUM OF STACY SZYMASZEK

by Susie DeFord Aug 03, 2009

from Stacy S: Autoportraits (OMG!, 2008)

In the challenging tradition of Joyce and Neidecker, Stacy Szymaszek’s new book Hyperglossia is only for the brave. Avant-garde, heady stuff, it demands a lot of the reader, who is advised to keep a dictionary at hand.

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ART
FROM THE ARCHIVE: CROSS POLLINATION

by Oona Brangam Snell Jul 31, 2009

Image courtesy of Georgia Marsh

During my first weeks of wading through the archive I was dizzy trying to make sense of all the information I was ingesting.

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PERFORMANCE
RENNIE HARRIS ON HIP HOP AND DANCE

Jul 30, 2009

Rennie Harris. ©Karli Cadel

International hip-hop choreographer, Rennie Harris, on his inspiration and education through dance.

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FILM
PREPARE TO MEET THY ODD: PUNK, FOLK, AND JEM COHEN

by Montana Wojczuk Jul 29, 2009

Ian Mackaye joins filmmakers Jem Cohen and John Cohen (no relation) onstage at IFC to talk about the intersections of punk and folk.

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VIDEOS
BOMB'S PARK LIT READING IN TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK 2009

Jul 29, 2009

Alan Gilbert performs for a full house.

Thanks to everyone who came out to BOMB’s Park Lit reading in Tompkins Square Park last Wednesday. Perfect weather and a dynamic group of readers made for a fun evening in the park (minus the annoying teenager strumming his guitar in the background, but we’ll write that off as Tompkins Square charm). We have a video recap for you after the jump.

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ART
BOMB ON THE INSIDE: A REAL DREAM ON EAST HOUSTON

by David Goodman Jul 28, 2009

Check out the mural by Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo on East Houston and Bowery.

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ART
DAMION BERGER

by Alec Quig Jul 27, 2009

© Damion Berger, from In the Deep End

Damion Berger’s work is interesting to me precisely because it has so little in common with the majority of his contemporaries. When I first saw it, we just had to talk.

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