BOMB 124/Summer 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE Christian Haub’s Floats are plexiglass constructions that are looked through as well as at. The artist discusses the place these works have in his long, underrated career.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Poet Tom Healy discusses non-Euclidian navigation of New York City (among many other topics) with monologist Mike Daisey.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Jeffrey DeShell and Rebecca Wolff discuss their latest works–from class, porn, to intertextuality found in our day-to-day lives.
WEB EXCLUSIVE A.M. Homes has an “oddly revealing” conversation with painter and friend Jane Fine. Homes’s new book May We Be Forgiven is in stores now.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Writer Jauregui speaks with filmmaker Julia Loktev about couples dancing and moments of rupture and equilibrium in her new film The Loneliest Planet.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Roberto Tejada discusses his literary career with Esther Allen and his recently published book of poetry, Full Foreground.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Mary Jo Bang discusses her unique approach to translating Dante with Zachary Lazar. Her Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, is out now.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Artist Humphrey talks to Spiotta about her recent novel Stone Arabia and the overlaps between acting and writing.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Chris Andrews and fellow translator Will Heyward discuss Roberto Bolaño, César Aira, Oulipo, and the peculiar challenges faced by the translator.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Margarethe von Trotta’s newest film, Hannah Arendt, resonates with the intensity that defines her decades of work. Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa discuss their history together and the role of radical women in Germany.
Writer Jeremy Sigler talks to his mentor, performance artist Nigel Rolfe, about art as human experience.
Poets Anne Waldman and Frances Richard discuss their careers, new work, and life at the forefront of the poetic avant-garde. Or, as Waldman calls it, the avant-derriere.
Web Exclusive Louise Belcourt discusses her new work—and its historical, physical edges—with her longtime friend and correspondent Joanne Greenbaum.
Web Exclusive Jean Pagliuso sits down with artist and ceramicist Toni Ross to discuss Cycladic art, coil pots and Ross’s recent show at Ricco/Maresca.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Poets Enzensberger and Smith discuss politically engaged writing and their fondness for flops. Smith won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Life on Mars.
WEB EXCLUSIVE With the release of Martha Wilson Sourcebook, the artist looks back on her 40-year career and discusses the origins of Franklin Furnace, the flexibility of identity, and the difficulty of staying visible with age.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Michèle Gerber Klein and Maurizio Cattelan “read” his new magazine Toilet Paper. The retrospective Maurizio Cattelan: All opens November 4 at the Guggenheim Museum.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In a BOMB Web Exclusive, Adam Fitzgerald talks to Ben Lerner about Leaving the Atocha Station, the acclaimed poet’s debut work of fiction.
This is an unedited transcript of speeches given at BOMB’s 30th Annual Gala & Silent Auction on April 15, 2011, at Capitale, NYC, honoring Marina Abramovic, Richard Armstrong, Betsy Baker, and Francine Prose.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of photographer Tina Barney by writer Michele Gerber-Klein, filmed at 192 Books in March 2011.
Part of the series In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces, filmed in Wiener’s studio in Greenwich Village, Spring 2010. A retrospective of Hayes work opens June 21 at the Whitney.
Read a BOMBLive! unedited transcript of the video interview: Tina Barney interviewed by Michele Gerber-Klein at 192 Books in March 2011.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Uniting three works of opera that span over 100 years, Michael Counts curates, directs, and designs his vision Monodramas for the New York City Opera. He speaks with musician John Zorn about the scale and challenges of the stage.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Special for Work in Progress subscribers: Read an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño’s new collection of poetry, Tres, out from New Directions.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Deb Olin Unferth—whose story “Abandon Normal Instruments,” appears in First Proof—recently published a memoir chronicling her teenage adventures in revolutionary Central America. She spoke to writer Nathan C. Martin.
Flip through these highlights from BOMB’s 30th Anniversary Issue before it hits newsstands later this month. Click to view in full screen and pre-order your copy of #115 today!
WEB EXCLUSIVE Adina Hoffman’s biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is a compelling portrait of an artist. Hoffman spoke with fellow biographer Deborah Baker about issues of fact and the biographer’s immersion in her subject.
WEB EXCLUSIVE From big-box stores, thrift shops to dead malls, photographer Brian Ulrich has captured the US landscape of consumption for a decade—unflatteringly but never without empathy. Lynn Saville prompts him to elaborate on his vision and travels.
This is an unedited transcript of the BOMB on the Scene video interview: Gregory Crewdson interviewed by Richard Goldstein in September 2010.
In Sanctuary, Crewdson’s newest series, the artist leaves behind his cinematic, large-scale technique for a more minimal, realist view. The BOMB crew headed to Great Barrington to talk to Crewdson about this departure.
