BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Sullivan’s film installations combine performance, dance, original scores, and song. With choreographer and dancer Stuart on misfire, the body politics, and controlling chaos in ensemble-based work.
Dara Birnbaum’s deconstructive investigation of mass-media conventions and idioms has proven influential and enduring since she began showing her work in the late ’70s. New work by Birnbaum is showing at Marian Goodman through the end of August.
Inimitable performance artist Kalup Linzy discusses his family’s southern history and the characters in his ongoing series of camp soap operas. His work is part of a group show, On Shuffle, at Lehmann Maupin, through August 19.
Peter Saul—painter of satirical and ribald images since the 1960s—on his recent move to New York City, assimilation into the art world, and his big, bad subjects.
The booming business of the Mexico/U.S. border: Davis, chronicler extraordinaire of these apocalyptic times, connects the dots between the War on Terror, the War against Drugs, Immigration and Homeland Security.
Seven is to good fortune what eight is to infinity. On September 7, Japanese noise band Boredoms release a DVD documentary, 77 Boar Drum, of their incredible drum circle performance at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2007.
The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. Eno, who’s been hailed as “the Beckett of the John Stewart generation,” with his collaborator Sola at the former Howard Johnson’s restaurant and points beyond.
The projects undertaken by the architecture and design firm KieranTimberlake Associates have redefined green design and off-site fabrication. Timberlake discusses their project for MoMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
B. Wurtz on the ambiguousness sculptor Charles Goldman aims for between “where his art ends and the rest of the world begins.”
Lovell takes on Leslie Hewitt’s smart and elegant work that probes the boundaries of photography and sculpture.
What exactly is music? Michèle Gerber Klein tackles this question in an examination of Tristan Perich and his edgy 1-Bit style, reviewing a performance at the Whitney Museum in February of 2008.
BOMB’s 2007 Fiction Prize Winner, House, selected by final judge Amy Hempel. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains excerpts from Maag & Minetti: City Stories. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story Patriots. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story Some Problems, Cha-cha-cha. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from The Shanghai Gesture. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Gioconda on Seventh Avenue.” “Local or Strange” and “Mr. Stravinsky.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “No Sparkly Pens, Please” and “Love Poems Wrecked by my Lover.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Boundary” and “Dogs in the Wild.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “Consecutive Studios” and “Spacing.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Fiction for Driving Across America Listen to Patrick Dacey reading his short story “Patriots,” originally published in BOMB 104, the second installment in BOMB’s literary podcast series.
WEB EXTRA! Watch the premiere of Kalup Linzy’s music video for Asshole Remix! Disclaimer: Intended for mature audiences only. Read Linzy’s interview with BOMB Managing Editor Nick Stillman.
