BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Sculptors Charles Ray and Paul Dickerson go beyond studio talk in a peripatetic stroll through museums, lunch at the Carlyle and a cab ride.
Painters Chuck Close and Lisa Yuskavage take a psychological glimpse at white trash, individual struggle and artifice.
David Pagel attempts to crack the feminist, violent and “slightly off-kilter” world of Kim Dingle and her paintings and installations.
Jenifer Berman and poet Patricia Spears Jones talk about the various facets of Jones’s writing and her views on religion, race and privacy.
Russell Banks reveals the dark side of the American spirit in his novel, Rule of the Bone, with Pinckney Benedict, winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Dogs of God.
Independent filmmakers Alison Maclean (Crush) and Todd Haynes (Poison) talk about genre busting in Haynes’s feature film Safe, about a woman who turns to New Age cures for an environmental disease.
Vernon Reid talks to the genre-defying trio Medeski, Martin & Wood about the choices they make in their music.
Don’t miss Helen Mirren in The Debt or issue 52 of BOMB. So take a flashback just like they do in the film, but to 1992, and check out Helen Mirren’s conversation with fellow actor Peter Eyre.
Coco Fusco looks into the theatrical value of Sacred Naked Nature Girls’ spontaneous, symbolic all nude show, and how it deals with issues of the body, gender and performance.
Architect Carlos Brillembourg is among a few initiates allowed entrance to Luis Barragan’s nunnery.
An excerpt from the novel Face of a Stranger, titled “Amadera in Makase,” by Novelist Yoji Yamaguchi. This article is only available in print.
Two photographs of installation views, of tires, barrels, springs, bedsprings, carbon, metal fencing, fires, firehose, and more, titled Idle/Drift and Exodus by Nari Ward. This article is only available in print.
A short story, titled “Life of a Liar,” by Martha King. This article is only available in print.
Two poems, titled “New Years Eve, 1990,” and “The Making of a Harlem Love Poem,” by Willie Perdomo. This article is only available in print.
A digital image, titled Stain Novella by David Humphrey. This article is only available in print.
A poem, titled “The Bump (I–VIII),” by Max Blagg. This article is only available in print.
Two acrylic paintings on linen, titled The Secret Charts—Fig. Y, and The Secret Charts – Fig. P, by Tom Woodruff. This article is only available in print.
A photo emulsion on linen, titled Kino II by Gwenn Thomas. This article is only available in print.
A short story, titled “Undertow,” by Adam Klein. This article is only available in print.
