BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
Andrea Zittel utilizes design, not simply as an aesthetic, but as a tool with larger-than-life goals that merge fantasy, biology, and the built world to produce such projects as curvilinear “escape vehicles” and strangely utopian “pocket properties.”
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.
Two drawings by George Mead Moore, accompanied by an admiring letter to the artist from James Brown. This article is only available in print.
Giovanni Rizzoli on the Pop art-influenced, gem-adorned sculptures of John Torreano. This article is only available in print.
George Negroponte writes about the sculptures of Matthew Bliss in the Twentieth 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 “Infusion” and “The Fire Setters.” 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.