BOMB 112/Summer 2010
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Joe Scanlan has been hiring diverse black actors to play the fictional emerging artist Donelle Woolford at art openings and lectures. With poet Jeremy Sigler, he delves into the project’s intricacies and uncomfortable implications.
Martinican musician/linguist Jacques Coursil just released Trail of Tears, a new album featuring his signature trumpet sound—reminiscent of speech. Jason Weiss talks record labels with him, the heydays of jazz, identity, academia, and more.
The Portuguese novelist, critic, and translator passed away June 18th, 2010. Here’s an interview he did with Katherine Vaz in the summer of 2001.
Writer and former New Yorker staff writer Suzannah Lessard interviewed by novelist Patrick McGrath in the BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Fall 2002.
In this installment of the BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series, author and psychiatrist Mark Epstein sits down with painter Carroll Dunham at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Fall 2002.
Tom Healy, veteran of New York’s art scene, lecturer and activist, is garnering praise for his first book of poetry. Writer Carol Muske-Dukes speaks with Healy about growing up on a farm, about painting, pain, and the making of unsentimental poems.
Listen to a BOMBLive! In this podcast, Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of The Center for Land Use Interpretation, is interviewed by architect Deborah Gans at Pratt Institute, with slideshow illustrations.
Michelle Boulé dances as if possessed; she refers to it as channeling, movement as a conduit. Here she discusses her relationships with choreographers like Miguel Gutierrez and Deborah Hay and increasing intersections between dance and visual art.
The legendary animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, innovator of documents of generational angst like Fritz the Cat and Coonskin, has turned to visual art. His show The Streets is currently at Animazing Gallery in New York.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Bette Gordon’s third feature film Handsome Harry opens in New York on April 16. The director of the underground classics Variety and Luminous Motion speaks with producer and fellow professor Evangeline Morphos.
WEB EXCLUSIVE If you know Jace Clayton, you probably know him as DJ /rupture, a turntablist who has hopped styles from clattering noise to grimy dub to cumbia. Coming off his recent album Solar Life Raft, Clayton met with poet Alan Gilbert.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Novelist Peter Carey has a conversation with poet Robert Polito in which they discuss Ned Kelly, Australian history, and Carey’s book, True History of the Kelly Gang, at The New School in the fall of 2001.
Listen to a BOMBLive! A fall 2002 interview with artist Rackstraw Downes by author Philip Lopate at the New Museum. Downes has a show up at the Parish Art Museum in Southampton through August 8th.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Rick Moody has an informal conversation with Darcey Steinke in which they discuss writing with feeling, god, and Moody’s book, Demonology, at The New School in the fall of 2001.
Tan Lin is interested in non-print forms of reading—potted plants, traffic lights, spoken words, strip malls, WD50—and approaches the book as a repository of dispersed ambient textuality.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Harvey Shapiro, one of New York’s major 20th-Century literary figures, is a poet and former editor of the New York Times Book Review. Here he reveals why a New York poet constantly works with found material.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculptures interweave handcrafted family artifacts with generic, mass-produced objects in an attempt to “reclaim nostalgia as a viable language.” She and Elad Lassry discuss how her bohemian upbringing shapes her work.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Travel writing is a known genre, but travel painting? Mike Glier and Roberto Juarez walk through Glier’s current exhibition of landscape paintings made in Ecuador, the Canadian Arctic, New York & St. John—a global line of longitude.
Watch a BOMBLive! Ned Smyth by Keith Sonnier, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
WEB EXCLUSIVE When sound installation artist Margaret de Wys was diagnosed with breast cancer, she left all she had established to be healed by a shaman in the Ecuadorian jungle … and it worked. Her new book, Black Smoke, describes how.
Oskar Eustis, the Public’s Artistic Director, and his collaborator, Hewes Award-winning set designer David Korins. Having recently collaborated on Passing Strange among other productions, the two discuss how process makes perfect.
WEB EXCLUSIVE The Venezuelan artist who once replicated her apartment in a Caracas museum revisits key performances, discussing her personal measurement unit (the anto) and the fauna she researches in her apartment.
En Español Francisco Suniaga y Federico Vegas, dos destacados novelistas venezolanos, hablan de los personajes trágicos y legendarios de la historia venezolana que habitan sus ficciones.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Francisco Suniaga and Federico Vegas, two of Venezuela’s most celebrated novelists, discuss those tragic and legendary characters of Venezuela’s history inhabiting their fiction. Also available in Spanish.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Tristan Perich’s album 1-Bit Symphony is actually a programmed microchip. Live, he accompanies the complex bleeps and bloops of its songs with a harpsichord. With Nick Hallett, he expounds on the algorithmic impulse of his art.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortlisted for a National Book Award for her poetry book Or To Begin Again, Ann Lauterbach discusses the function of the undead in her work and explains the art of the “imagined community.”
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortly before the release of his latest book, American Power—photos highlighting the American addiction to energy production and consumption—Mitch Epstein divulges what inspired the project and how he next plans to make it public.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Read “The Forecast,” an excerpt from The Real Illusion: Twenty-One Stories by Simon Lane, illustrated by Tunga.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Sculptor Rona Pondick on bodily fragmentation and the manipulation of the museum at her Worcester Art Museum exhibition.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Quinlan’s photographs picture—literally—smoke and mirrors; Beshty makes photos without a camera. They meet on a New York Chinatown rooftop to discuss their work.