BOMB 119/Spring 2012
Art critic for The Nation and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Arthur Danto discusses art with Michael Kelly in anticipation of the publication of Danto’s collected essays, The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World.
For over twenty years, Donald Baechler has used primitive and pop iconography to make his exuberant paintings. The result is a hybrid of formalism coupled with déjà vu angst. Fellow painter David Kapp conducts the interview.
Truly a cyber-era artist, Monique Prieto’s bold, colorful abstract paintings are composed on the computer. Their emotive quality relies on the traditional triangle of the eye-hand-brain. BOMB contributing editor David Pagel finds out how it all connects.
Hailed as the next Nabokov, Aleksandar Hemon makes his literary debut with an astonishing story collection, The Question of Bruno. After war all but destroyed his homeland of Sarajevo, he has found a way, through fiction, to reconstruct the past.
Reinventor of the inner-city struggle and urban literary vernacular, celebrated poet and novelist Paul Beatty talks with writer and contributing editor Rone Shavers about his latest book, Tuff, and what it takes to maintain a renegade spirit.
Turning the tables on his 1980 documentary, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, director Julien Temple reinterprets the rise and fall of punk icons the Sex Pistols. If you think you already know the story, think again.
Legendary South African singer, filmmaker, activist and long-exiled leader of the anti-apartheid movement, Miriam Makeba proved repeatedly that she deserved the laurels Mama Africa and Empress of African Song.
David Humphrey on the neologistic, evocative paintings of Amy Sillman.
Kathleen Goncharov on Giovanni Rizzoli’s metaphor-heavy, deeply personal mixed media pieces.
Cheryl Kaplan reviews two video installations, Climate and Le Baiser/The Kiss, by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.
Amanda Means on the subversive technique and resultant bleak, isolated photographs of Oliver Boberg.
In his second collection of essays, funeral director and poet Thomas Lynch embraces wider and more personal themes, touching upon emotional instability, marriage, children and the search for meaning.
This First Proof contains the story “Personal Foundations of Self-forming Through Autoidentification with Otherness.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Rue Guynemer.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Abigail Thomas adds new complexity to the memoir genre with her varying points of view and page-turning content. She writes about all that life has to offer in the way of birth, death, promiscuity and regret.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from The Rules of Engagement. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Things He’d Done.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “It’s Winter in the Eye, and Like Ophelia,” “Day Two of a New Bear,” and “Given to Believe.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “City Map” and “In a Funk.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “You Are Not a Stranger Here.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
