BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Carmen Boullosa talked with Gabriel Orozco about his “doll of spheres” in 2007. Orozco’s latest work is now at Marian Goodman Gallery through October 10.
Gronk, of the performance troupe ASCO, reminisces on life in East Los Angeles; Godzilla; his own character, Tormenta; mural painting; dining al fresco on a traffic island; and creating stage sets for Peter Sellars.
The LACMA curator’s odyssey into the cosmology of the Maya, in Lords of Creation: The Origins of Ancient Maya Kingship, her latest blockbuster show to present the art and culture of ancient Mesoamerica.
The Family Tree (The Genealogies), the legendary Mexican writer and thinker’s shimmering Rashomon of her Jewish family’s past, is revisited on a drive to her childhood home in Mexico City.
Saturn devoured his children to leave myths like those in The People of Paper, unfolded here in the form of an origami temptress and a cholo gang leader.
Los Tigres del Norte: the ultimate corrido-belting norteño band, and Grammy winners to boot.
On the craft of directing and playwriting for a woman’s body, the body politic, and a people’s soul.
Doña Julia Julieta, of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, on Mazatec ancestral knowledge, sacred mushrooms, and one patient’s extraordinary regression through time.
Urban planning and the Edenic garden, from Cicero to Borges; and universal knowledge and the public library, from Boulee to Kalach’s own soaring Vasconcelos Library.
Trinie Dalton on the celebration of individualism and the critique of the capitalist ideal that drives Minerva Cuevas’ video installation The Economy of the Imaginary: Pirates and Heroes.
For the 2007 Americas issue, Roberto Juarez underscores the distinctly Hispanic elements of the quirky kinky graphic art of Paul Henry Ramirez.
This First Proof contains the series of stories A Book of Swoons. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story A Stabbing Pain, translated by Margaret Carson. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story Border Crossings. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the story Borges’s Dagger. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains four photographs by Juan Rulfo. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “For T. S. Eliot,” “The Table,” “Girl With Roots,” and “My house is your house (mi casa es tu casa),” translated by Aura Estrada and Francisco Goldman. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Photographs on Somebody’s Lips, translated by Krista Ingebretson. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from That Space, That Garden, translated by Forrest Gander. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “For Rose to Be We Need a Celebrity,” “Durango, Durango,” and “On Eroticism and Cutting Fabric.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “19 powkroskaya street,” “The Women Tell Their Stories,” and “Enter the Void.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
