BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Andrea Zittel utilizes design as a tool with larger-than-life goals that merge fantasy, biology, and the built world to produce such projects as curvilinear “escape vehicles.” She currently has a piece on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Michael Goldberg came of age as a painter just as New York came into its own as an art center. Saul Ostrow queries the artist on the mavericks—O’Hara, de Kooning, and Pollock—and his role as an artist who’s been creating vital work for 50 years.
Eduardo Galeano, recipient of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, is one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers, journalists and historians. Jaime Manrique speaks with the legendary maestro of letters about utopian spirit in the global age.
An explorer who braved the Peruvian wilds and recorded his experiences in Keep the River on Your Right, and lived with the headhunters of Papua New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum answers the big questions on life and death from Allan Gurganus.
Amos Gitai’s new film Carmel, screens at MoMA January 13th–18th. He speaks with Minna Proctor about Kippur in this 2001 interview.
Award-winning filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, best known for Chungking Express, has a new film, In the Mood for Love, which won two awards at Cannes: Best Actor for Tony Leung and the Grand Prix de la Technique for its art direction.
Wendy Wasserstein has revolutionized contemporary American theater through her complex explorations of the lives of women; for The Heidi Chronicles she was the first female playwright to receive a Tony Award, and since then has become a legend.
Architect Samuel Mockbee and his Rural Studio have been designing radically inventive homes, community centers and churches for the poor out of the most unlikely materials: card-board boxes, hay, old car windows and bundles of used clothes.
In an admiring letter to George Mead Moore, artist James Brown discusses D.H. Lawrence, Huayapam and Sunday mornings in Mexico, accompanied by two drawings by Moore.
Giovanni Rizzoli on the Pop art-influenced, gem-adorned sculptures of John Torreano.
George Negroponte writes about the sculptures of Matthew Bliss in the 20th Anniversary issue of BOMB.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from A Fifth of November. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Housebroken. Translated by Dalya Bilu. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Incidents of Travel in Riversford. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Preservation.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Sitting Vigil.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Dead Man.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Foreign Body” and “Species Fever.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Luna Moth” and “Beatitudes.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Infusion” and “The Fire Setters.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
