BOMB 118/Winter 2012
The relation of images is the crux of writer David Levi Strauss’s work, though it’s by no means a sedentary position. He sat down with longtime friend and writer Hakim Bey to discuss how images operate in the public imaginary.
Pierre Huyghe, winner of the 2002 Hugo Boss Award, moves freely among different mediums, staging situations that while visually and conceptually complex, allow room for unexpected collaborations, both with other artists and with the viewer.
Sound and music have always been a key component of Canadian artist Rodney Graham’s films, installations, even his recent paintings. Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, also an artist, is used to traversing the worlds of both music and art.
Courtney Eldridge (her book Unkempt, is just out) and Ben Marcus (The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women) conducted this interview in celebration of Marcus’ anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories.
Both first-rate novelists, Frederic Tuten and Jerome Charyn grew up in the Bronx, meeting as teenagers at the home of Fay Levine, the Bronx’s own Elizabeth Taylor. The two reminisce after the release of Charyn’s novel The Green Lantern.
32-year-old Brooklyn filmmaker Jonathan Caouette has been documenting his own life since he was eleven. His staggering debut Tarnation, part documentary and part narrative, is a densely layered testament of Caouette’s life and that of his family.
When British sound artist Kaffe Matthews thinks about sound, she thinks about space, time, travel and radios strapped to bicycles. Her approach to making music is based on sampling her surroundings and capturing their sonic personality.
Playwright Romulus Linney has been following Laura Linney’s career since its inception—he’s her dad. Fresh from roles in Clint Eastwood’s film Mystic River and Donald Margulies’s play Sight Unseen, the actress is working non-stop.
John Haskell on Amy Cutler’s exacting portrayal of an imaginative world populated by women.
David Lang on Memory Index, a massive photographic installation by Bill Albertini.
Carroll Dunham on the consistent exploration of natural versus abstract form present in the Core Sample sculptures of Mel Kendrick.
Olu Oguibe on how Odili Donald Odita’s colorful abstracts exude honesty and dignity. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the novel American Purgatorio. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Coming Down.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
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This First Proof contains four poems from Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror translated by Keith Waldrop and Hu Qian. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “From Time Magazine to Hollywood Confidential,” an excerpt from the novel Loosing My Espanish. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Release and Capture.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story “Saturday,” BOMB’s Fiction Prize Winner 2004 judged by A.M. Homes. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains six paintings by Yun-Fei Ji. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay and the poems “Two Verses,” “Elegy,” and “Howl.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains two poems, “Styria” and “Pilgrimage,” from Red Shoes. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
