BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Janelle Iglesias + Lisa Iglesias = Las Hermanas Iglesias. The sisters share their reflections on collaboration, collection, and the absurd with Martha Moldovan.
Jennifer Lindblad experiences Carsten Höller and discusses the ways in which his work explores contemporary theories of body.
Shifting Connections untangles the complexities inherent in the work of Hans Haacke.
Michelle Oka Doner’s A Walk on the Beach installation at the Miami International Airport welcomes all with terrazzo, bronze, and mother-of-pearl.
Carmen McLeod cracks open the creative process with Open Structure, her debut show at CRG.
Check out a video preview of Immersive Surfaces, a video projection installation on the Manhattan Bridge for the DUMBO Arts Festival, happening September 23 to 25. BOMB wouldn’t miss it!
In this roundtable discussion with the participants of the new art show Don’t Wake Up, Richard Goldstein inquires to each artist how estrangement, displacement, and their environment effect their artwork.
Richard Goldstein talks to Lisa D’Amour, Katie Pearl, and Shawn Hall about the importance of “partnering” with the environment and how their collaborations developed organically into the interactive installation How To Build A Forest.
It’s been two years since the last odd numbered year, and you know what that means—it’s almost time for the Venice Biennalle! Check out our handy BOMB guide to exhibition’s offerings.
Shifting Connections continues with writer and critic Kathleen MacQueen’s take on Joseph Kosuth’s new installation at Sean Kelly Gallery, on view through April 30th.
Marnie Weber haunts the grounds of the Altadena Cemetery in her latest film/installation/performance project. Eternity Forever marks the death of her band The Spirit Girls and the birth of a new one, Fäuxmish.
Melissa Webb’s interactive installation The Temporary Nature of Ideas at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore had strangers creating side by side, contently and contemplatively.
Did you miss out on this trans-borough adventure that had participants unlocking park gates and stepping behind closed museum doors? No worries. Follow this native New York correspondent boldly where she’s never been before—her own back-yard.
BOMB’s Richard J. Goldstein talks generational differences, scale, and what it means to be a New York Artist with Greater New York artists Sam Moyer and Franklin Evans in this cyber-roundtable discussion.
If there is an edge to painting, has anyone ever jumped off? Klein jumped, or so staged it. He is the point of departure for Joyce Kim’s most recent body of work.
THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE, an exhibition of new work by British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, now occupies the first-floor gallery of Victoria Miro in London.
Carolee Thea happens to have been both installation artist and curator. Now, she’s asking the questions of some of the most dynamic names in curating with her d.a.p release On Curating // Interviews with Ten International Curators.
On the last weekend of January, the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair (ALAC) stamped an impressive footprint on the second floor of the Pacific Design Center (PDC).
Everyone is sad for X Initiative’s one year art attack on Chelsea come to an end. But if we had to see ‘em go, it was sure nice to see ‘em go out with a bang.
Richard J. Goldstein and Hannah Kahng interview Roman Ondák about his installation Measuring the Universe at MOMA.
In this edition of BOMB on The Inside, David Goodman chats with artist Aernout Milk about his aggressive and expressive videos at MOMA.
WEB EXCLUSIVE 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.
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.
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! This video features an interview of the Director of the Center for Art, Culture and Technology at MIT, Krzysztof Wodiczko, by Giuliana Bruno in fall 2007. It is the premiere of In the Open: Art and Architecture in Public Spaces.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Krystof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City in October 2007.
While rehearsing her upcoming production Devotion, opening at The Kitchen on Jan 13, Sarah Michelson contemplates, with fellow choreographer Ralph Lemon the gaze and juxtaposition of seasoned dancers with young girls.
Adam Pendleton’s show Radio (ONE), at the Salina Art Center, remixes the artist’s previous installations. In BOMB 114, he discusses the connection between civil protest and art with poet Thom Donovan.
According to William Corwin, “Michael Ballou distrusts traditional art world classifications.” That’s why his work is up at Valentine in Queens through November 6th.
