BOMB 111/Spring 2010
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The Bohen Series on Critical Discourse. John Elderfield, Chief Curator-at-Large of the Museum of Modern Art, speaks with philosopher David Carrier about Matisse, Mondrian, Prud’hon and contemporary theories of taste and interpretation.
Malcolm Morley’s paintings have always broken the rules. He and curator Richard Francis go back to his growing up in London during the war, Abstract Expressionists at the Tate, a visit with Barnett Newman, and making realism abstract.
Artist Tina Girouard spent several years traveling to Haiti to work with Vodou sequin artists. Along the way, she became a “Mambo of Art,” inducted into the Vodou ceremony. Excerpts from her journal.
Set against Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues, A.M. Homes and artist Gregory Crewdson scrape the layers off suburban homes, revealing the surreal, the pornographic, and the psycho-sexual desires in her novel, The End of Alice.
Padgett Powell is one of the funniest men alive. If he weren’t such a great writer — Edisto, Edisto Revisited — he could always be a comedian. V. Hunt tracks the laughs.
Frances McDormand has acted in the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona. Willem Dafoe talks to her about keeping her feet on the floor and her eyes in focus as a pregnant Minnesota cop investigating murder in Fargo.
Winner of the Cannes 1995 Camera d’Or, The White Balloon by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi brings drama and humor to a seven-year-old’s quest for a New Year’s fish.
With his 10 CD box set, Testament: A Conduction, composer/conductor Butch Morris gives voice to the collective imagination and re-envisions the way we hear music.
William Pope. L walks the line between performance and theater; art and political activism. He and Martha Wilson talk about art and racism in America.
Two paintings of ink gouache on paper and ink, pencil crayon on paper, Ink and Untitled by Thomas Nozkowski. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel A Fling With a Demon Lover. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel Appointment in Wipe-ola. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the artwork Drainage Ditch: Georgetown, 1995 and Untitled Mud Drawings, 1994, courtesy of Jay Gorney Modern Art. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Considering the Void.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Dogleg.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel From a Sealed Room. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel Hey, Joe. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
An installation view that blends self- hatred, internalized sexism, and a remarkable kind of racism, titled Look Away! Look Away! Look Away! by Kara Walker. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “My Best Friend.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Shrinking Away.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Sold Out.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Solitude Ain’t Loneliness.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Three paintings of watercolor and ink, Untitled by Stephen Mueller. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poem “Tell Our Daughters.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains poems from the anthology The United States of Poetry published by Abrams in 1996. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “snow, washington square park” and “white girl’s exiles.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “About Flyin’ Home” and “These New York City Pigeons.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Untitled.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.