BOMB 111/Spring 2010
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Polito on his recent Hollywood & God, which stands astride American spirituality and celebrity culture, with Trinidad, who wrote The Late Show under the sway of movies, cosmetics, and the NY School.
So Yong Kim’s second feature film Treeless Mountain vaulted her to the fore of a group of young filmmakers being called Neo-Neo Realists. She recently met with fellow Neo-Neo Realist Ryan Fleck, co-director of the recent film Sugar.
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.
WEB EXCLUSIVE 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 Photographer Mitch Epstein divulges what inspired his latest book, American Power—photos highlighting the American addiction to energy production and consumption.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Read “The Forecast,” an excerpt from The Real Illusion: Twenty-One Stories by Simon Lane, illustrated by Tunga.
Sculptor Rona Pondick on bodily fragmentation and the manipulation of the museum at her Worcester Art Museum exhibition. She currently has a show up at Nassau County Museum of Art through 5/23.
Watch a BOMBLive! Playwrights Young Jean Lee & Richard Maxwell discuss race, politics, and her latest play The Shipment in the web-exclusive video interview filmed live P.S. 122.
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.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE Painter Trevor Winkfield and writer Maggie Paley meet at Winkfield’s studio to discuss Winkfield’s graphic, disquieting, and bizarrely ceremonial paintings.
WEB EXCLUSIVE! In this epistolary exchange, novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen discuss the art of writing, pop culture, the Argentina of the Dirty Wars, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Josephine Meckseper’s sparkling display cases combine vintage consumables with references to protest movements. Through these installations and appropriated advertisements she probes how nostalgia and romanticism compromise dissent.
Rhys Chatham will be performing Crimson Grail for 200 Guitars on Saturday, August 8th at the Damrosch Bandshell.
Watch a BOMBLive! Jonathan Lethem’s new book, Chronic City, is out now! Watch his q&a with Betsy Sussler. Co-produced by Cleveland Institute of Art.
Watch a BOMBLive! Englander and Galchen continue their conversation from BOMB’s web-exclusive interview, discussing pop culture, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination at the Brooklyn Public Library.
Watch a BOMBLive! Author and cultural theorist Giuliana Bruno interviews Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT at the premiere of “In the Open: Art and Architecture in Public Spaces” at SculptureCenter.
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Weeks before the end of Simic’s Laureate run, he and fellow poet Tomaž Šalamun caught up with each other over the phone. Read their exchange now!
WEB EXCLUSIVE! A National Book Award finalist for his most recent novel The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo-born, Chicago-based writer Aleksandar Hemon mines the condition of living in exile and of being grotesquely pinned between past and present.
Watch a BOMBLive! Authors Honor Moore and Victoria Redel discuss their recent books, The Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir, and The Border of Truth, a novel. Filmed before an audience at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City.
Watch a BOMBLive! Tom Kalin, director of Savage Grace, talks with his colleague Bette Gordon, director and BOMB contributor, in front of students at Columbia University.
Part 2 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Click here to read Part 1 of the interview!