BOMB 119/Spring 2012
New York-based painter Joe Fyfe interviews Bernard Piffaretti about Piffaretti’s signature take on abstraction. Fyfe recently curated the exhibition Le Tableau at Chiem & Read, which features work by Piffaretti.
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.
Multimedia artist Tony Oursler in conversation with musician and writer Alan Licht on Oursler’s spectacular sound, video and sculpture installations.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the audio interview: Chris Abani and Colm Tóibín in conversation at KGB Bar in April 2006.
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.”
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.
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.
Experimental composer and pianist Anthony Coleman speaks with painter Michael Goldberg on the eve of Coleman’s CD Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik).
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.
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.
Gabriella De Ferrari speaks with choreographer William Forsythe just after his Kammer/Kammer premiered. His new piece I don’t believe in outer space is at Brooklyn Academy of Music through October 29.
Mimi Thompson and Keith Sonnier on how Lluis Lleó’s family lineage and his interest in cooking inspire him, as well as how his paintings dare to extend out into space.
John Miller on how Nicolás Guagnini’s photography explores the repression and monotony implicit in everyday life.
Dona Nelson on how Steven Charles’ nearsightedness aids and inspires the creation of his swarming, colorful, jam-packed abstracts.
This First Proof contains an excerpt “Chapter 12: Implosions” from her memoir Feelings are Facts. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Gifts from Nola.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains images from Tony Fitzpatrick’s constellations and assemblages of cutouts: found folk art, poems, old advertisements and magazines, ancient matchbook covers. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the photographs of Jason Langer. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Pair,” and “A.D.” from Whore Suite (1970s), and “F+,” “The Body,” “Yuck,” and “Captions from the cannibal’s photo album.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
BOMB Contributing Editor Rachel Kushner’s novel, Telex From Cuba, was nominated for a National Book Award in 2008. Read a chapter from the book, first published in BOMB in Summer 2006! For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “The Strange Case of Rachel K,” an excerpt from Spirit Loves a Colony by Rachel Kushner. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Torque,” “And,” and “Brasserie Lipp.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains “A Measure of Self Worth,” an excerpt from Web of Freedom. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
