BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Glen Seator’s sculptures have been called “desiring-machines”; they are replicated exterior and interior spaces, fragments or full rooms, skewed or not, all of which have a history: social, political and poetic.
The Frances Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. Petah Coyne constructs waxen sculptures that hang like chandeliers from ceilings and walls. Her photographs of brides emote a kind of decadence that comes from wisdom, not youth.
Former Yugoslavian Dubravka Ugrešić is a writer known for experimenting with artistic forms, creating “patchwork fictions” in which references to Gogol and Nabokov are interwoven with recipes, quotes from women’s magazine and children’s books.
German film director Michael Haneke likes to describe his films as disturbing; what he disturbs: the viewer’s tendency towards a rote emotional response.
In this conversation with Tucson based desert rock duo Calexico, writer Fionn Meade talks with band members John Convertino and Joey Burns about their complex yet beautifully stripped down sound.
Composer and saxophonist John Zorn is known for his ability to mix musical genres in a repertoire that includes jazz ensembles, symphony orchestras, rock bands and film scores. It’s held together with a gift for collaboration, a passion for progression.
Award-winning playwrights Romulus Linney and Donald Margulies delighted in trading stories about pitfalls, paths avoided and paths followed. Marguiles’s Time Stands Still is up now at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
UN Studio has designed train stations, bridges, private residences and museums with a fluid and inconclusive process that strives for universal consciousness. Ben van Berkel started the practice, along with his wife, Caroline Bos.
Walter Hopps on the provocative, often rock ’n‘ roll inspired works of mischief-minded filmmaker, photographer and artist Bruce Conner.
Phillip Lopate on Burhan Dogançay’s prolific and often overlooked career as “Turkey’s greatest living artist”.
Rob Wynne on the intimate, refined works of multi-medium artist James Brown.
The fiction of Reynolds Price has always been nourished rather than cowed or oppressed by the oldest narrative traditions from the gospels on down. BOMB is proud to have published this Summer 2002 interview with one of America’s most revered writers.
This First Proof contains the story “Beauty and the Beast.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Dog Tags.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Remedy.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Crossroads Blues: Duet with Robert Johnson #4,” “Little Boy Blue: Duet with Robert Johnson #18,” and “Rambling on My Mind: Duet with Robert Johnson #33.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three poems by Virgil Suárez. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Smoke” and “Fences.”For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Green in Green” and “Dusk.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Revolution’s the Thing” and “Password for a Hybrid Century.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
