BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Janine Antoni has a show at Luhring Augustine starting 9/12. Stuart Horodner joins Antoni to test the limits of significance, of lard, chocolate and polysomnograph machines in this 1999 interview.
Until her 1998 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, artist Yayoi Kusama was one of the art world’s best kept secrets. Her infinity nets, phallic sculptures, and nude performances influenced Cornell, Oldenburg, and Warhol.
English writer Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica, part memoir, part travelogue, created a critical stir of approval upon its release. What her American audience might not realize is that she’s a prolific novelist.
Novelist Michael Cunningham’s The Hours splices together a day in the lives of three women in a stunning tour de force. The author discusses the incongruities of life and the fluidity of literary influence with writer Justin Spring.
Poet Simon Ortiz and Tribal Councilman Petuuche Gilbert on Indian country—the Acoma Pueblo—memory, history, and colonialism.
The author of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, chats with novelist Patrick McGrath about the most famous resident of Broadmoor—Dr. William C. Minor.
Lawrence Chua reviews the then-new film adaptations of two American novels, Russell Banks’ Affliction and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Gary Sinise may have migrated to Hollywood, but it’s not all glitter and confetti for the long-time actor/director. From the trenches of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre to the dazzle of a De Palma blockbuster, Sinise is a straight-up actor’s actor.
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s film The Celebration resembles Greek tragedy with a twist—influenced by French New Wave and The Godfather, winner of the Jury’s Prize at Cannes, its production was dictated by the neo-manifesto DOGMA 95.
Downtown, no-wave, rock, free-prov guitarist Marc Ribot ventures intrepid into “prosthetic” Cubanismo on his album Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos. David Krasnow asks: “What’s this Jewish guy from Jersey doing playing the son montuno?”
This First Proof contains the story “All Sweet Things.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This issue contains artwork by David Yager, and Marvin Heiferman’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Geographies of Home. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Heart of the Animal.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This issue contains artwork by Janet Zweig and Amanda Means’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This issue contains artwork by John Morris and Adam Fuss’s reflections on it. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Susie, Kiki, Annie.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “La Nuit américaine” and “Variation on a Long Exposure.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Allegory of Waters” and “Against Photography.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “pops.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
