BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
BOMB’s legendary interviews.
The peripatetic conceptualist (Where’s Al?) talks with artist Cheryl Donegan about Ginsberg’s Howl, the reanimated past, and the overlooked poetry of authorless signage.
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 El artista venezolano radicado en Nueva York colabora con pacientes mentales “para curar a los cuerdos de su lucidez”.
Harmony Korine’s newest film, Trashhumpers, just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. He spoke with Richard Bishop about Mister Lonely in this 2008 interview.
Los Tigres del Norte: the ultimate corrido-belting norteño band, and Grammy winners to boot.
Urban planning and the Edenic garden, from Cicero to Borges; and universal knowledge and the public library, from Boulee to Kalach’s own soaring Vasconcelos Library.
Raymond Voinquel’s cinematic style pushed the envelope of fashion photography. Collaborating with writers and directors, he found a scale to match his vision of style on the big screen.
Paul Beatty, acclaimed and inventive author, speaks with poet, critic, and gallery owner Christian Haye on issues of personal politics, performance, group-think, and getting by with style in the world of contemporary poetry.
Marlane Meyer discusses the defiance of expectation in life and art, framing the task of the playwright as the non-egotistical pursuit after loose-ended truth.
Eight women artists respond to Saul Ostrow’s gendered questions on the significance of being a woman artist…all to raise further questions on the (ir)relevance of gender roles.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Harvey Shapiro is one of New York’s major 20th-century literary figures. A poet and former editor of the New York Times Book Review, he continues writing at 86. Here he reveals why a New York poet constantly works with found material.
In her hometown of New Orleans, Humphries created silver and ghost paintings in an auto garage for the Prospect.1 Biennial. The artists on the beckoning mutability of Humphries’ paintings.
Mississippi legend Barry Hannah is out with his twelfth book, the novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan, a masterpiece of ensemble performances linked together by prose that is lustrous, Baroque, and burnished with Hannah’s unique brand of beauty.
A roundtable discussion on whether or not art can reverse history and the notion of the “sublime” within painting.
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.
In Chile and beyond, Guilisasti is known as both artist and co-founder of INCUBO. A proponent of the precarious, her recent work links Judd’s structures in Marfa to the Chilean phenomenon of short-term yet recurring summer beach squats.
Artists Nayland Blake and Rachel Harrison on art notions under threat of extinction in the 21st century: self-expression, art not for reproduction, and being engaged in the here and now.
The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. Playwright Richard Maxwell directs artist and writer John Kelsey in an impromptu rehearsal of an angst-riddled monologue. A discussion on the intricacies of delivering a text ensues.
Well before it evolved into a 200-channel entertainment behemoth, Birnbaum was making now canonical avant-garde videos critiquing television’s celebration of passive consumerism and exploitation of human drama for mass consumption.
Peter Saul—painter of satirical and ribald images since the 1960s—on his recent move to New York City, assimilation into the art world, and his big, bad subjects.
The artists discuss chance, the creative potential of drifting, and “distinguishing reality from fiction—as if that were possible!” WEB EXTRA: Watch Dardot’s Hic et nunc video!
Carvalho returns to the modernist project in his adventurous novels — saturated with desire and ambiguity, dislocation and theatricality. WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from Carvalho’s novel Nine Nights!
Brazil’s prolific and legendary writer Lygia Fagundes Telles crosses literary time and space with Portugal’s own Manuel Alegre, novelist and presidential candidate.
Karim Aïnouz’s Madame Satã broke taboos on all sorts of sexuality. The filmmakers discuss the internal geography of a peripatetic outsider, and the contradictions of their country and the condition of human nature.
The filmmakers emailed between London and Brussels, comparing notes on their working process, the high emotion of beginning a shot, and the theory underlying their projects, from anthropology and psychoanalysis to cinema verité.
David Malouf is Australia’s preeminent author. Knopf just released The Complete Stories, his astonishing collection that spans the 20th century. Colm Tóibín queries Malouf on the casualties of war and the dual nature of Australia’s history.
The painters, friends from the old days, discuss craft and the American way—an oral history ranging from basketball to the nature of art.
Heir to the American visionary tradition, Bill Jensen’s art evolves through an intuitive process grounded in the act of painting. Poet John Yau tracks a lifetime.
Lincoln Perry’s mural at the University of Virginia re-envisions the building’s view of distant mountains as the acme of a kind of secular Pilgrim’s Progress.
The two poets are also essayists as well as translators. Weinberger’s latest book, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, traces the current administration’s controversial first term.