BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Ned Smyth interviewed by Keith Sonnier in the summer of 2009, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of artist Judy Pfaff by BOMB Editor-In-Chief Betsy Sussler, filmed at the New York Public Library on March 3, 2008. This is an Art:21 co-production.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Judy Pfaff interviewed by Betsy Sussler at the New York Public Library in March 2008.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of artist Ellen Driscoll by artist Anita Glesta, filmed at Proteus Gowanus Gallery on December 2, 2007. It is part of the series In the Open: Art and Architecture for Public Spaces.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Ellen Driscoll and Anita Glesta in conversation at Proteus Gowanus Gallery in December 2007.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Watch a BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus on December 2, 2007.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Lorenzo Pace interviewed by Patricia Spears Jones at the New York Academy of Art in November 2005.
Watch a BOMBLive! poet Lorenzo Pace at the New York Academy of Art on November 9, 2005.
Watch a BOMBLive! at the New York Academy of Art on November 9, 2005.
Watch a BOMBLive! Poet Patricia Spears Jones interviews sculptor Lorenzo Pace as part of “The Figure in Narrative” Series, filmed at the New York Academy of Art in Lower Manhattan.
Katrín Sigurdardóttir’s sculptures and installations merge embodied experiences of place with conceptual constructions of space. She reflects with poet Eva Heisler on the early memories that inspire her work.
Feher pinpoints the exact moment when he discovered that to be an artist meant to believe “I was right, even when I was wrong.” His new work is on view at Diverse Works in Houston from January 19 to March 16.
Sculptors Newman and Wurtz have a common passion for the found object, a delight in the handmade, and a keen sense of humor. Wurtz’s new work is at Metro Pictures now.
Artist Ryan Johnson on sculptor Sheila Pepe’s obsession with shoelaces and her technique of “improvisational crochet.”
Painter Alexander Ross on the perplexing, serpentine, visual complexities of Daniel Wiener’s sculpture.
Charles Long, whose Pet Sounds installation opened at Madison Square Park this week, makes art that enchants even as it toys with the possibility of falling apart.
Deschenes and Peterson, a poet, continue an ongoing conversation on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, a novel that here serves as a springboard for musings on the nature of perception.
Check out two exclusive videos from the collaborative artists and then read their discussion with Craig Kalpakjian, featured in Issue 115.
Recent works by Michael Ballou have a solid practicality, but verge on the enchanting and sinister. Ballou has altered three spaces in the Brooklyn Museum with site-specific installations, on view though July.
After designing and building what he regards as an improved M16 in his studio, Jameson Ellis reduced the act of firing a gun to “pure functionality” at the Salomon Contemporary.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins’s sculptures reference the human body in all of its dumb charm and joyful habits. With Horodner she reflects on Levinas, contingency and Chinese scholar’s rocks.
Stephen Westfall inspects the typical Cordy Ryman sculpture discovering it to be a seemingly autonomous entity complete with its own agency and the ability to miraculously self-propagate.
An unseen tap dancer whose reverberating steps haunt an empty gallery, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a whistleblower atop a hippo made of mud: Allora & Calzadilla on the politics of site and sound, plus a video.
Shapiro, known for his tilting, anthropomorphic sculptures and dense floor pieces, has new work at Craig F. Starr Gallery through March 23.
Michael Combs’s sculptures mix the Waspiness of traditional animal mounts with the taboo fetish sexuality of carved wooden birds wearing leather masks, emerging from leather strap-ons, and draped—flaccid—over Winchester gun stocks.
