BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
Sculptor Brian Tolle is known for his meticulous replications of historical objects—Jefferson’s writing desk—and installations of archetypal hearths and utopian architecture. His latest project is a monument to the Irish Hunger in Battery Park.
The Frances Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. For over 30 years painter Robert Mangold has used a simple, primary vocabulary to explore a range of visual, aesthetic and physical relationships in an eloquent testament to the legacy of abstraction.
In this 2001 interview, Nick Flynn speaks with Carl Phillips, 2009 National Book Award nominee for poetry, Speak Low, and 2004 nominee for the poetry collection The Rest of Love.
Whitehead’s new novel Sag Harbor is available now.
Novelist Guillermo Arriaga wrote 36 drafts of Amores Perros, the award-winning Mexican film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Amores Perros is highly emotional, with cathartic rather than gratuitous violence.
Kenneth Lonergan’s newest play, The Starry Messanger, is up at The New Group through December 12th. Read his 2001 interview with Rachel Kushner.
Frontman for Guided by Voices, this 42-year-old ex-schoolteacher and Ohio-based object of international hero worship just happens to be a regular guy who obsesses over experimental and psychedelic pop music.
Ross Bleckner asks Inka Essenhigh about the inspiration behind her cartoony yet elegant paintings.
David Hunt on how the visual brilliance of Shahzia Sikander’s paintings overshadow their cultural, sociopolitical subtext.
Mimi Thompson on the floating, dreamlike worlds present in the drawings of Thomas Shannon. This article is only available in print.
William Eggleston reveals the beauty in the mundane through his new body of photographs, which capture everyday scenes of Arizona and Los Angeles.
Cheryl Kaplan on the craft of painter and architect Zaha Hadid and her design for the Contemporary Arts Center in Rome. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the story “American Children.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Harry Bellefield.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Little Rodney.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Our Lady of the Assassins. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “The Ambassador’s Son.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Xenophon’s Soldiers,” Melitopoles,” and “Queen (Failed).” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Thought Experiment: The Chinese Room,” and “Thought Experiment: Mary in the Black-and-White Room.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “See-Saw,” and “Come Back.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “This Sun,” and “Letter to Bob Hicok.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.