BOMB 119/Spring 2012
The anonymous collective Gran Fury talks with Robert Gober about their incendiary art, exposing inequality and hypocrisy in our society.
Painter Lari Pittman creates silhouetted scenes brimming with sexuality and nonsensicality—the folk art of a liberated past, channeled through the social realities of the present. Here, he discusses his envy of abstraction, and the horror of an empty bed.
Susan Hiller’s Secrets of Sunset Beach from her 1987–90 photoseries.
In his Brooklyn studio, Tod Wizon meets with fellow painter Anney Bonney to discuss the finer points of art, polymorphic thinking, and self-abandonment.
Author Jessica Hagedorn talks to Ameena Meer about incorporating Filipino traditions, taboos, and superstitions into a mixed media narrative in her novel, Dogeaters.
Phil Hartman made his name as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live where, from 1986 to 1994, he created a number of classic characters such as the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. Writer and Artist Stanley Moss sat down with Hartman in 1991.
Raul Ruiz, who most recently directed the start-studded film The Golden Boat, attempts to dismantles traditional roles in narrative cinema, reversing landscape and plot. He speaks with video producer Carol Anne Klonarides about his work.
Damsels in Distress, out now, is Whit Stillman’s first film since 1998. He spoke to Betsy Sussler in 1991 about his debut, the now-classic Metropolitan.
2 Black 2 Strong and his right hand man, Warchild, discuss racism in the media, growing up and getting out of the ghetto, and the symbolism behind the American flag.
Zydeco musician Terrance Simien speaks with Dickie Landry about God, touring, and their beginnings in Louisiana.
Yuri Lyubimov discusses the theater as a phenomenon for the elite, censorship, and why Scandinavians are more prepared for plays.
Romulus Linney penned dramas that pinpointed emotional moments in the lives of his subjects. We will miss one of our most cherished playwrights and BOMB’s contributing Editor in Theater. We remember him with this Winter 1993 Craig Gholson interview.
A family that produced several criminals lives in Virginia, “Angel” by Marianne Wiggins. This article is only available in print.
A bushman confronts a family squatting in the forest where he lives, “Circle of shade” by Kelvin Christopher James. This article is only available in print.
Four poems, “The Kiss,” “Song,” “A Photograph” and “The World” by David Trinidad. This article is only available in print.
Several diary entries chronicling three troubled months, “Diaries 1989-90” by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
India ink drawing of a lounging but ailing woman, Diary of an AIDS Patient by Masami Teraoka. This article is only available in print.
Photograph of two women at a table, Javotte and Katherine, Paris ’90 by Allen Frame. This article is only available in print.
Oil on wax paper painting of an amalgamated creature, R/G by James Nares & David Rattray. This article is only available in print.
Two woman discuss embroidery and men, “The Indian Giver” by Coleman Dowell. This article is only available in print.
Excerpted poem from “The Minotaur Sutra” by Charles Henri Ford. This article is only available in print.
Two short fiction pieces, “The White Lion” and “Lake of the Buddhas” by Janet Hamill. This article is only available in print.
Three creative sculptures, Work Station #6 (envy), Come Armageddon, and Untitled by Nayland Blake. This article is only available in print.
Two photographs of serene, water-filled landscapes, Patrick and Amazon by Sally Gall. This article is only available in print.
Installation view of Zooligisches Museum by Candida Hofer. This article is only available in print.
