BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
Check out the Elizabeth Foundation for the Art’s Open Studios, opening 10/15 and running through 10/17, featuring Arturo Herrera, Valerie Jaudon, Marjorie Welish, and nearly 70 other artists.
Elizabeth Murray and Jennifer Bartlett, painters and lifelong friends, reminisce about the ambitious New York art world of the 1960s and ‘70s.
Lincoln Perry’s mural at the University of Virginia re-envisions the building’s view of distant mountains as the acme of a kind of secular Pilgrim’s Progress.
Critic and curator Downey queries the 2004 Turner Prize nominee about the excess of carnival and its inversion of power. Shonibare’s latest project, the film Odile and Odette, updates Swan Lake to reflect an ambiguous contemporary morality.
The two poets are also essayists as well as translators. Weinberger’s latest book, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, traces the current administration’s controversial first term.
Shriver’s new novel, So Much For That, which deals with America’s health care crisis, is out March 9th.
These two New York natives discuss growing up in Brooklyn, the allure of the of the Museum of Natural History, and the perils of the autobiographical question in this instant classic from 2005. His new film, Greenberg, opens 3/26.
Musician, electronic composition innovator and MacArthur fellow Lewis has been documented in more than 120 recordings as well as numerous installations and written texts. He talks with Parker about where improvisation and politics intersect.
The celebrated playwright and author converses with theater producer Morphos (behind, most recently, Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell), about his book of short stories, A Primitive Heart. In all of Rabe’s work, the past haunts his protagonist.
Lucy Raven on how the mythology of underground guerrilla groups and the American frontier inspire the drawings and paintings of Adam Helms. This article is only available in print.
Jan Estep on how both visual process and internal psychology play a role in the abstracts of Clarence Morgan. This article is only available in print.
Anthony Huberman on how Gedi Sibony’s sculptures toy with our assumptions and thus serve the purpose of humor. This article is only available in print.
Saul Ostrow on how Jon Kessler’s sculptures and installations explore the aesthetic and the role of technology and mass media in our lives. This article is only available in print.
Mimi Thompson on how Stanley Whitney’s colorful grid paintings aspire to “density with a lot of air.” This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from American Genius, A Comedy. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains excerpts from Chroniques de L’Algérie Amère Algérie 1985-2002. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Teachable Moment.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “The One Marvelous Thing.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Another Conversation in These Times of Extreme Emptiness,” “The Enormity of It Took Him by Surprise,” and “Migrations.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “The Moonlight Defense,” “Sonnet,” and “The Outernationale.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “The Lady A,” “In My Garden,” and “The Physics of a Wish.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “I’m Over the Moon,” “Three Summers Mark Only Two Years,” and “Straight’s the New Gay.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Love,” and “Kitsch.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.