BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
In Elizabeth Murray’s 1998 BOMB interview by Jessica Hagedorn, the two discuss ordinary objects, domestic novels and what it means to be feminist.
For Kerry James Marshall, 1997 was a good year: a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whitney Biennial and Documenta X. He spoke with Calvin Reid about the future of painting. Black Romantic is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery until July 3rd.
In Flight Among the Tombs, Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Hecht assumes the voice of Death—as a society lady, a Mexican revolutionary, a film director, and, of course, a poet. Daniel Anderson and Philip Stephens survey thirty years of Hecht’s poetry.
Michael Winterbottom’s Welcome to Sarajevo, a partially fictionalized account of one English journalist’s struggle to save a Bosnian child, captures the moral dilemmas of war reporting.
Wong Kar-wai’s films are kooky, cool and without being sappy, utterly romantic. The enfant terrible of Hong Kong cinema talks with playwright Han Ong about why he puts in what others leave out.
From the Okra Orchestra’s fast and funky sounds to his first album, In The World, this Mississippi trickster serves his music HOT. Rhythm and blues to theater and be-bop, Olu Dara is always the ultimate storyteller.
Martin Sherman’s Bent played on Broadway in 1979. Since then, the playwright had been living in London. In 1998, with A Madhouse in Goa and the film version of Bent, Sherman returned to the States with a vengeance.
Playwrights Philip Kan Gotanda and David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) compare notes on the East/West conflict, the Third World Movement, and Gotanda’s play, Ballad of Yachiyo.
Three paintings of oil and pencil on linen, titled A Personal History of Italian Film numbers 3, 9, and 6, by Carl Palazzo, accompanied by text by Betsey Sussler. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “Dump” from Aliens of Affection. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Several sculptures of masking tape and aluminum tape, and terra-cotta with a terra sigulata glaze, titled Flowers and The Five Senses by Katy Schimert, with text by Matthew Ritchie. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Jack Maggs. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “Musuh Dalam Selimut: The Enemies in the Blanket,” an excerpt from Gold by the Inch. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “A Widow’s Lament.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Randy Bradley.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from The Fiery Pantheon. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Two installation views, titled The Great Sea Battles of Wilhelm Schürmann and Deviations in Space, by Jason Rhoades, with text by Saul Ostrow. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poems “Relation (East 47th Street),” and “One More for the Road.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Two paintings of acrylic on styrofoam, the first Violence Profanity Supernatural Strangeness and Graphic Rendered Sexual Situations by Bruce Pearson, with text by David Clarkson. This article is only available in print.