BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Artists Kiki Smith and Barbara Bloom wander through the thought processes that separate the compelling from the mediocre, the public from the private.
In this 1996 featured interview, Weiner discusses the imperatives of need in language, in life and in getting the job done.
Oliver Herring’s diary from Framed by Darkness, performed in Israel.
Robert Polito, author of Savage Art, a biography on Jim Thompson, talks to Peter Carey, author of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, about the push and pull of home, politics and alienation.
Writer Amy Hempel speaks with Sharon Olds, heir to Lowell, Plath and Sexton, about loyalty and betrayal.
Director Mike Figgis composed his film, Leaving Las Vegas, like a jazz score. It soars and crashes, and soars again.
Shu Lea Cheang’s film Fresh Kill is non-stop motion, traveling between environmental and cyber space.
On the road with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and famed chanteuse Patti Smith, in Kerouac’s Lowell, Massachusetts.
Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Adrienne Kennedy talk of the foundation of family and the rage of the imagination.
Ridge Theater walks the line between opera and the avant garde, biting over a hundred sounds a minute. An original look at how they do it.
This First Proof contains the photographs Arctic Sun, 1994; Meriden, 1992??; and Glass, 1994.
This First Proof contains the story “Clouds.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains poems by Derek Jarman and photographs by Howard Sooley in an excerpt from Derek Jarman’s Garden. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the photograph, Double White Portrait (unique), courtesy of Michael Klein Gallery. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Two paintings of enamel on linen, titled Huey and Untitled, by Joyce Pensato, accompanied by text of Jeanie Deans. This article is only available in print.
Editor-in-Chief Betsy Sussler introduces BOMB 54. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains “Life is But a Dream,” an excerpt from the novel The Law of Enclosures. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “N/EST.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “H is for Hat” and the oil on canvas Small Higher Valley 8. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Gouache painting, Wavy Horizontal Brushstrokes, and On a black wall, a white wood square within a white chalk square, and a not-straight white chalk square by Sol Lewitt. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “Toujours Pierre.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains pastels on paper “Untitled 1” and “Untitled 2,” courtesy of Christopher Grimes Gallery. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Little,” an excerpt from Wisconsin, November 1968. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
