BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Racing thoughts: Artist and poet Marjorie Welish speaks to the legendary painter on the eve of his Fall 1996 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Speaking through materials, Joshua Neustein recalls cultural memory and history. His elegant and earthy installation Light on Ashes does just this.
Keith Tyson explains his “Artmachine” computer program, which pulls pieces of information from a reservoir of different sources and matches them at random to create project proposals which are then considered for construction.
Artist Laurie Simmons photographs have toyed with our perceptions since 1976. Her show The Love Doll opened February 14th at Salon 94 in the Bowery.
A glass a day, every day…An artist’s obsession: the act of painting.
Sapphire’s a literary phenomenon. Kelvin Christopher James goes in depth with her first novel, Push in this 1996 interview. Precious, the film adaptation of Push, is in theaters now.
Suzannah Lessard’s rumination, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, and Honor Moore’s biography of her grandmother, The White Blackbird, reveal the myths and truths surrounding family legacies.
A.M. Homes speaks to the master storyteller of This Boy’s Life, In Pharaoh’s Army and a book of stories, The Night in Question.
Brenda Blethyn’s performance in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies won her a Palme d’Or for Best Actress at Cannes. She talks about Leigh’s special process of improvisation.
Stuart Cohn examines composer Richard Einhorn’s extraordinary opera Voices of Light, based on the life of Joan of Arc and Carl Dreyer’s classic film.
Photographs by Tom McKitterick with text by Robert Tracy. Three stars of ballet: Peter Boal, Vladimir Malakhov and Duncan Cooper.
The Bohen Series on Critical Discourse: “Equality in the Theater” by Craig Lucas.
Scott Elliott’s meteoric rise as a theater director is hailed as the return to the tradition of ensemble acting.
This First Proof contains excerpts from the poem “Calypso Illogics.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the collection of prose poetry City Terrace Field Manual. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Crossing Her Mind.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Diz.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel Father and Son. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Words of reflection on their collaboration and four works by Gunderson & Holt, titled With Calla Lily, Her Protea, With Orchids, With Begonia by Karen Gunderson and Norma Holt. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “Keep it From the Flame” from the collection The Kind I’m Likely to Get. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Sic Transit.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains Thomas Bolt’s selection of work by Alliance Poets Jeffrey Gustavson, Edwin Frank, and Andy McCord for this poetry portfolio. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel The Apprentice. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Hypothetical,” “Leaving Town,” and “Woman at a Frontier.”—part of The Alliance Poets portfolio. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Two paintings of plaster, acrylic, enamel, and resin on wood panel, titled Josephine and Theresa, by Chuck Agro. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poems “For Georg Lukács,” and “Nobody Says.”—part of The Alliance Poets portfolio. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
