BOMB 123/Spring 2013
BOMB 123/Spring 2013 cover

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOMB 84/Summer 2003

Christian Marclay, still from Telephones, 1995, video projection with sound, 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY by Ben Neill

Christian Marclay’s The Clock is making waves at Paula Cooper Gallery. Ben Neill interviews the sonic visionary in this 2003 conversation.

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COREY MCCORKLE by Mungo Thomson

Mungo Thomson on the search for the transcendent in Corey McCorkle’s om infused photographs.

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JESSE REISER AND NANAKO UMEMOTO by Andrew Benjamin

Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto are renowned for both built and unrealized projects, from the small to the very large. Their unique designs focus on the relation between architecture, territory, and systems of distribution.

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MARINA ABRAMOVIć by Laurie Anderson

The Frances Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. After nearly 40 years, Marina Abramovic’s performances and installations continue to make viewers squirm. Laurie Anderson, an old friend, queries the artist on dreams and Buddhism.

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Paul McCarthy, Pot Head, 2002, light blue silicon rubber, 33 ½  x  42  x  48".

PAUL MCCARTHY by Benjamin Weissman

Paul McCarthy’s radical approach has not been diluted over a lifetime of factory-like levels of production. His work is currently at Hauser & Wirth in New York City.

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ARYEH LEV STOLLMAN by Betsy Sussler

In Aryeh Lev Stollman’s collection of short stories, The Dialogues of Time and Entropy, the author transposes the miracles of modern science with those of the Old Testament, filtering studies on time, entropy and chaos theory through the little miracl

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JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA by Adam Fuss

Poet and social activist Jimmy Santiago Baca is best known for his memoir, A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet, and his poetry collection Earthquakes: Poems. This past fall, he came out with a book of poetry, C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans.

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SHARI SPRINGER BERMAN AND ROBERT PULCINI by Bette Gordon

Before camcorders, webcams and reality TV, there was Harvey Pekar and his home-grown autobiographical comic book series, American Splendor. Culled from Harvey’s encounters in daily life, the series and their grumpy antihero attained cult status.

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ELLIOTT SHARP by Mike McGonigal

New York composer, producer and improviser Elliott Sharp has famously fast fingers that are constantly giving shape to and executing numerous solo and collaborative projects. Sharp trades lively emails with writer and old friend Mike McGonigal.

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ABBY GOLDSTEIN by Lucio Pozzi

Lucio Pozzi on how the tangled lines in Abby Goldstein’s abstract drawings imply and celebrate movement.

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SHEILA BERGER by Mimi Thompson

Mimi Thompson on how Sheila Berger’s paintings manage to brilliantly evoke emotions, places and times.

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THE 19 DIASPORA PAINTINGS by Archie Rand

Archie Rand discusses his Diaspora Paintings and what it means to make Jewish art.

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TOM SLAUGHTER by Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Robin Baitz on the unpretentious, pleasing nature of Tom Slaughter’s paintings.

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THREE STORIES by Joe Andoe

This First Proof contains the stories “Appreciation at the Door,” “The Rundown,” and “Keepsake.”

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A HOUSE by Gabriella De Ferrari

This First Proof contains the story “A House.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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FIRST HAIR by Suzan Sherman

This First Proof contains the story “First Hair.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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FOUR POEMS FROM SHE SAYS by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

This First Proof contains four poems from She Says, translated by Marilyn Hacker. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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THREE POEMS by Ryan G. Van Cleave

This First Proof contains three poems. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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THREE STORIES by Stephen P. Williams

This First Proof contains the stories “Fig,” “Swinging in the Breeze,” and “Fortune.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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TRACE ELEMENTS OF RANDOM TEA PARTIES by Felicia Luna Lemus

This First Proof contains Chapter 2 from Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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TWO POEMS by John Rybicki

This First Proof contains the poems “Sleep Piling Up, Sleep Coming On” and “I Straddle the Earth.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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TWO POEMS by Donald Platt

This First Proof contains the poems “Elegy in the Rainbow Season” and “Turtle with the World on Its Back.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.

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