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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Painter Jane Dickson speaks with her friend, Los Angeles sculptor Liz Larner about the metaphysical expressed in the always-bold physicality of Larner’s work.
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Multimedia artist Tony Oursler in conversation with musician and writer Alan Licht on Oursler’s spectacular sound, video and sculpture installations.
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New York-based painter Joe Fyfe interviews Bernard Piffaretti about Piffaretti’s signature take on abstraction.
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This discussion on colonialism’s legacy between Nigerian novelist Chris Abani and Irish novelist Colm Tóibín was recorded at KGB Bar. BOMB co-sponsored the event with PEN American Center.
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Michèle Gerber Klein speaks with enigmatic poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, whose new collection, I Love Artists, is just out from the University of California Press.
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Laurie Sheck and fellow poet Kimiko Hahn, author of, most recently, The Narrow Road to the Interior. Sheck likens Hahn’s work to “a volcano wrapped in a cloud.”
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Los Angeles-based actress Esther K. Chae traveled to South Korea to speak with renowned film director Park Chanwook about the final installment in his revenge trilogy, Lady Vengeance, just out in the States.
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Experimental composer and pianist Anthony Coleman speaks with painter Michael Goldberg on the eve of Coleman’s CD Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik).
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PERFORMA05 founder RoseLee Goldberg talks with Danish artist Jesper Just about his first-ever opera, True Love Is Yet to Come, which premiered this past spring in New York.
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Celebrated for his dissection of WASP America, playwright A. R. Gurney talks with colleague Romulus Linney about Gurney’s most popular plays: The Dining Room, Sylvia, The Cocktail Hour. His latest, Indian Blood opens.
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Gabriella De Ferrari speaks with venerated choreographer and BOMB Living Legend William Forsythe just after his extraordinary new production Kammer/Kammer premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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BOMB Contributing Editor Rachel Kushner’s novel, Telex From Cuba, recently graced the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Read a chapter from the book, first published in BOMB in Summer 2006!
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