BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Three artists converge at Gaines’s LA studio to unpack the paradoxes and challenges of public practices such as Arceneaux’s Watts House Project in Los Angeles and Lowe’s Project Row Houses in Houston.
Guy Ben-Ner merges family life with literary tropes and texts to produce his videos. The result is comedy colliding with erudite allusion. He has some video work on display at Postmasters Gallery through May 8th.
Photographer Collier engaged the filmmaker with banter on the allure of buried legends Marie Antoinette and the Mitford sisters, obsolete film stock, and old gay New York.
For Bernstein poetry constitutes in equal measure play of voices and verbal art. Jay Sanders speaks with the poet and essayist upon the release of his volume of selected poems All the Whiskey in Heaven.
Lipsyte’s abrasively funny protagonists, holy schlemiels, according to fellow novelist Christopher Sorrentino, reel between stasis and crisis—never more so than in his latest The Ask.
Reygadas—who just won Best Director at Cannes for his new film Post Tenebras Lux—is more interested in his actors’ presence than their technique. He discusses why feel-good movies make him feel bad with Jose Castillo.
With major roles in over 30 films in the past decade, Patricia Clarkson has transcended the ageist stereotype of the American female actor. The star of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and the upcoming Cairo Time talks with poet Howard Altmann.
If you’ve heard singer-songwriter David Sylvian’s indelible voice, you’ll share cult guitarist Keith Rowe’s desire to place it. Here they focus on the recent Manafon, their joint journey into the outer limits of popular song.
Strau on “dangerous formalism” and the work of Hubbard, whose latest is on view now at Hammer Projects in Los Angeles.
Surrounded by “empty objects longing to be powerful,” Jimbo Blachy confronts Joanna Malinowska’s eclectic and mysterious exhibition Time of Guerrilla Metaphysics at CANADA gallery.
Author Minna Proctor contemplates the universe of Sharon Harper’s long-exposure photographs of the starry night sky.
This First Proof contains a portfolio of four photographs by Allen Frame. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three poems by Kimiko Hahn.
This First Proof contains the short story “An Occurrence at Bernal Dwellings,” winner of BOMB’s Fiction Contest judged by Jonathan Lethem. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Black Ice.” For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Netsuke: A Novel by Rikki Ducornet. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains five poems by Max Blagg. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This BOMB Specific contains artwork by Franklin Evans. This content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Hmmm” by Clayton Eshleman. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “May” by Simon Lane. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
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This First Proof contains three poems by Bill Berkson. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
Fiction for Driving Across America Listen to Joshua Furst reading his short story “Black Ice, originally published in BOMB 111, in the seventh installment in BOMB’s literary podcast series.
Paul W. Morris reviews the postcard-sized magazine, Abe’s Penny.
Peter Moysaenko reviews Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, photography by Christopher Payne, and essay by Oliver Sacks.
Anne K. Yoder reviews Best European Fiction, from Dalkey Archive Press.
R.H. Quaytman reviews Dan Graham’s Rock/Music Writing.
David van der Leer reviews Leon Krier’s Drawing for Architecture.
Monica de la Torre reviews the traveling exhibition curated by Anthony Huberman.
Christine Lagorio reviews a city wide installation/scavenger hunt in San Francisco.
