BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Known for his frequent about-faces in format, subject, process and style, photographer James Welling has played a seminal role over the past two decades in bringing his medium to the center of the contemporary dialogue.
Born in Nigeria, educated in London, residing in the US and working internationally, Olu Oguibe maintains that a lack of infrastructure has kept a term like global community from realization, but in his work it’s as if he is realizing it singlehandedly.
Painter Shirley Jaffe started out under the influence of Abstract Expressionism and made a radical move in the 1960s toward a geometric vocabulary, yet her work defies categorization. Jaffe talks with Shirley Kaneda about what drives her work.
Mexican-born writer and translator Alma Guillermoprieto has focused on Latin America’s transition into modernity for the last 20 years. In her fourth book, ??Dancing with Cuba??—her first in Spanish—she turns to her own transition from dancer to writer.
In 1970, with From a Crooked Rib, Nuruddin Farah became the first Somali novelist, and with his second book, A Naked Needle, he caught the unfriendly eye of Somalia’s dictator and was exiled for more than 20 years.
In his feature fiction debut, director and co-writer Ra’anan Alexandrowicz follows James, a young African, on a wide-eyed pilgrimage to Israel, where he finds that the Holy Land he had imagined does not exist. Liza Bear caught up with him in Cannes.
Icon of cultural outrage and transgression, filmmaker John Waters has inspired a reverence in his admirers that few directors can claim. Less known but equally compelling, his photographs subvert art-world constructs of high concept and seriousness.
A powerful yet restrained drama revolving around a family in the aftermath of a crisis, The Mother casts Anne Reid as a 65-year-old widow having an affair with her daughter’s 30-something married boyfriend (Daniel Craig).
Howe Gelb is shorthanded the “godfather of alt country,” but his prolific career is not easily condensed. In over 19 years and 35 albums playing both solo and with his band Giant Sand, Gelb looms large over many of today’s most interesting musical acts.
Eric Fischl on how Amy Myers’s background in physics influences the transfixing patterns found in her drawings and paintings exploring female sexuality.
David Humphrey on the oversized rough-hewn puppets constructed by Anne Chu.
George Negroponte on the well-practiced hand behind Michelle Charles domestic renderings.
Julia Wolfe on Suzanne Boca Negra’s collecting and categorizing at the center of her practice.
This First Proof contains the story “Get Well Soon.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Matilda’s Garden.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Perdido.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Rosario Tijeras. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Stormy Weather: Yin Tian.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Martha Smith,” “What Is Beautiful,” and “Question.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “An Ancient Temple,” “A River,” and “The Inside of the Opposite Sex (complete).” Translated by Hiroaki Sato. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Throughout Winter,” “Pasture,” and “Expressions of Wildness, Dreaminess, Nervousness & Spaciousness.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
