BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Joe Fyfe tells painter Josh Blackwell about his involvement in abstraction as a by-product of loss and the wabi-sabi discovered on his travels to Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
Berlin-based painter Katharina Grosse sees infinite potential in the marriage of imagination and projection. Here, with painter Ati Maier, she expands upon the lack of prescribed causalities or fixed hierarchies in her art.
For Alejandro Cesarco, meeting fellow Uruguayan and conceptualist Luis Camnitzer had a mind-altering effect. The artists discuss art education as a form of benign manipulation and Camnitzer’s survey at El Museo del Barrios, up through May 29th.
In the ambitious stories in Shepard’s latest collection, You Think That’s Bad, psychological insight is derived from the characters’ exposure to extreme duress. Shepard discusses his short stories with fiction writer Christie Hodgen.
Writer Thomas Pletzinger and New York-musician Sufjan Stevens on life on the road, their favorite brooklyn haunts, and Pletzinger’s novel Funeral for a Dog. From issue 115, on newsstands now!
Sebastián Silva’s highly realistic films are also thrillers. Set in Chile and performed by ensemble casts who replicate their counterparts in life with stunning veracity, his latest film, Old Cats, opens in New York this spring.
Musician and composer Robert Wyatt, renowned for his vocals and complex blends of pop, jazz, and world music, bridges the generation gap with the emerging “first lady of Arabic hip-hop” Shadia Mansour.
The two playwrights and performers on the drawbacks of being in constant production mode versus the pleasures of, and requirements for, the incubation of plays: a dose of folly and wonderment.
Check out two exclusive videos from the collaborative artists and then read their discussion with Craig Kalpakjian, featured in Issue 115.
Jorge Queiroz’s drawings are caught somewhere between dream-state and linear reality. New York artist Emilie Clark questions the multivalent act of seeing them.
Check out 2 exclusive videos by Rona Yefman! For 14 years, Israeli artist Yefman has chronicled the gender transition of her sibling, Gil. In the new issue, video artist Michel Auder interprets the works’ chaotic, familial boundaries.
Dale Williams contributes his Tricky Weather for this installment of The Wick.
This BOMB Specific contains artwork by Huma Bhabha with Jason Fox. This content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from A Stroll through Literature, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Laura Healy. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains Abandon Normal Instruments, by Deb Olin Unferth. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains four poems by Rebecca Wolff. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Parable of the Birds” by Paul Maliszewski. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three watercolor paintings by Emilie Clark. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the essay Saul Fletcher’s Psychological Reality, by Jimmy Raskin, accompanied by images of Fletcher’s work. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from The Color of Night, by Madison Smartt Bell. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three poems by John Tranter. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains two short stories by Vestal McIntyre. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
Fiction for Driving Across America Listen to Madison Smartt Bell reading from his novel The Color of Night in the eleventh installment in BOMB’s literary podcast series, originally published in BOMB 115.
Danzig Baldaev, hired by the KGB to document tattoo symbolism within the Russian penal system, secretly sketched the atrocities inflicted on political prisoners. The drawings are now published in Drawings from the Gulag.
Hervé Le Tellier’s two recent works, Enough About Love and The Sextine Chapel, present an intellectual, geometrically woven, and wholly stimulating take on erotic-lit.
In homage to 80’s cult band Felt, artists Christian Flamm and Mike Sperlinger crafted an encompassing, investigative fanzine of a book.
Francine Prose’ novel, My New American Life, explores the story of Lula, an Albanian immigrant hired to nanny a motherless, morose teenage boy in the middle of the Bush/Cheney years.
Sic Alps’ most recent album, Napa Asylum, is made up of the degenerate splendors of rock n’ roll—boxed wine, being broke, life on the road.
Radical Light recounts the sprawling stories and diverse trajectories of Bay Area avant-garde artists, who formed an experimental cultural landscape through film and video.
Zoe Leonard: You see I am here after all (2008) documents the artist’s two-and-a-half year Dia installation while expanding upon the art of mechanical reproduction.
