BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Artist Annette Messager on her titles, the craft of hysteria, and the obliteration of language.
Christian Boltanski discusses his MOCA installation (Summer 1988) with Irene Borger. Boltanski’s somber installation reflects his concern that the Jews face a fate similar to that of the American Indians.
Oil, watercolor, and charcoal on paper mounted canvas, titled Engineer’s Gate (AM), by Jack Barth. This article is only available in print.
Found-objects sculptor Kenji Fujita talks with Betsy Sussler about why he is able to endow a group of otherwise ordinary materials with such poignancy and such grace.
Patrick McGrath discusses Graham Swift’s novel Out of This World, which was published by Poseidon Press in the Fall of 1989.
Harry Mathews has covered the literary terrain: short story writer, poet, novelist, essayist, translator and editor. He speaks with Lynne Tillman about his books, Cigarettes, 20 Lines A Day, and The Orchard: A Remembrance of Georges Perec.
Self-proclaimed “martyr to fiction” Peter Ackroyd gushes about his terminal Anglophilia.
Director David Cronenberg speaks to Bette Gordon about how he uses the supernatural and horrific to comment on subtle, hidden aspects of society that most of realist Hollywood is too squeamish to confront.
Actress Jodi Long speaks with Michael McClard on moments of the ordinary turning extraordinary. Some of her roles in film and theater play the “figuring it out” we all take on.
Jon Robin Baitz speaks to Craig Gholson about growing up as a detached observer and turning that to his advantage as a successful writer for stage and television.
F.I.T. Gallery Director Richard Martin speaks to Jillian Burt about fashion on and off the body; in museums and for the masses.
A two panel painting ink on paper piece, titled ... At Last The Cry Concerns No One At All…, by Gregory Botts. This article is only available in print.
Journal entries from filmmaker Jonas Mekas’s exile from Lithuania to Vienna circa 1944–47. This article is only available in print.
Four poems, titled “On The Daily Monument,” “Grecian Formula,” “The Plane Is Landing,” and “Poem,” by Susie Timmons. This article is only available in print.
Ink on paper, titled Gametes, by Kiki Smith. This article is only available in print.
A sculpture of beeswax, steel, wool, and corn in Belljar, titled Hand Masher, by Garnett Puett. This article is only available in print.
A sculpture of a beaker, sealing wax, wood, ladle, steel, soot, and glass, titled Ladle, by Orshi Drozdik. This article is only available in print.
Considering country versus city life and single versus partnered life, a short story titled “My Idea of Beauty” by Jane Warrick. This article is only available in print.
Money and happiness are at the crux of a playwright’s visit, spurred by his domineering grandmother, to see his father in Oklahoma, “Portrait of the Artist as an Only Child” by Brad Conard. This article is only available in print.
An albumen print, titled Rivaulx Abbey, Interior of the Choir, by Philip Henry Delamotte and Joseph Cundall. This article is only available in print.
Station and Soveit War memorial Teptow Park East Berlin, acrylic paintings on plastic panels, by Peter Waite. This content is only available in print.
Two prose poems, titled “The Spirit of St. Louis,” for John Speicher, and “The Cloud,” by David Rattray. This article is only available in print.
Untitled drypoint and acquatint etching from the portfolio Japanese Gothic by Stephen Ellis. This article is only available in print.
