BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Artist and writer Aimee Rankin examines the confrontation with mortality that resides in Ross Bleckner’s work and the connection between paintings and trophies.
Eddie Owens Martin led a bizarre life as an artist, hustler, fortune teller, architect, and religious visionary. His most remarkable artistic endeavor was re-inventing himself as St. EOM.
Oil on linen painting, titled The Equinox, by April Gornik.
A poem titled “Infra-Red,” by Kimiko Hahn.
Janet Hobhouse discusses her various books with Bruce Wolmer — November, Dancing in the Dark and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein — and the differences between “American” and “English” writing.
Three short stories, “Robert Smithson Does Some Impressive Talking To An Idiot Who Just Trailed A Beam Of Light,” “Meeting Andrea,” and “Meeting Andrea Again,” by Jim Carroll.
Willem Dafoe discusses the Wooster Group, Platoon, and the reasons he works in both theater and film.
Oil painting on canvas, titled 4.23.85, by Thom Cooney Crawford. This article is only available in print.
Losing close friends amongst AIDS anxiety, “Burmese Days,” from a novel in progress, by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
Cement, plaster, and wood sculpture, titled Church, by Isa Genzken with installation shot. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Mixed media, acrylic on linen painting, titled Druid Deja-Vu, by Jamie Daglish. This article is only available in print.
“Rape by the Father (Thavai Speaks),” Chapter One from Empire of the Senseless, by Kathy Acker. This article is only available in print.
Three photographs, titled Colonia 28 Ottobre, Marina di Massa, Colonia Marina di Chiavari, Colonia Marina Calembrone by Gunther Forg, and an installation shot of his work. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print
Four poems, titled “Lucretia,” “Blue Moon,” “Backlash,” and “For George on my Birthday,” by Cheri Fein. This article is only available in print.
Wire and underwear sculpture, titled German speaking peaks “Muttler” by Georg Herold. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Two views of mixed media sculpture Grope Kiste, 1981–3. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from opening pages of the novel Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman. This article is only available in print.
Acrylic, gouache, and oil on canvas, titled Im Zeitalter der Kopein und Kopisten (In the Age of the Copier and the Copiest), by Rolf Walz. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
A portfolio of artists’ works curated and introduced by Saul Ostrow. This article is only available in print.
Untitled oil on wood painting, by Leonard Bullock. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Oil on canvas painting, titled No. 617 (Meditation), by Gerhard Richter. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Casseine on canvas over wood, titled Ohne Titel (Totem), by Blinky Palermo, 1964. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Cardboard, acrylic, string, and varnish, titled Rheinishes Totem bet, by Felix Dröese. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Untitled wrought iron, glass, and cast iron sculpture by Rosemarie Trockel. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Mixed media assemblage in a box, titled Separation, from the Theatre of Love Series, by Aimee Rankin. This article is only available in print.
A piece on European art and its sensibility, titled Something Different, by Stephen Ellis. This article is only available in print.
Oil and lacquer on fabric, Untitled, by Sigmar Polke. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Three pieces, titled Portrait of Robert Capa, Girder Pictures, and 7 Romain du Kirche, St. Sereon, by Hanno Otten. Part of the Köln portfolio. This article is only available in print.
Two oil on canvas paintings, titled African Sculpture in Lower Manhattan, circa 1965 and Anemonies in Rusted Can, 1975 by Gandy Brodie. This article is only available in print.
Two ink and crayon works on paper by Mimi Thompson , titled Norway and Lady in a Hat, by Mimi Thompson. This article is only available in print.
