BOMB 123/Spring 2013
WEB EXCLUSIVE My Brightest Diamond’s 2008 album A Thousand Shark’s Teeth vaulted operatic bandleader Shara Worden into the pop-music spotlight. Listen to a live recording of the band performing at Joe’s Pub in New York City.
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 playwright Young Jean Lee by playwright Richard Maxwell, filmed at the Mabou Mines Theatre, New York City, on November 5, 2008. It is part of The Select Equity Group Series on Theater.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of poet and translator Peter Cole by fellow MacArthur recipient Edward Hirsch, filmed at the Brooklyn Public Library on October 22, 2008.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Rhys Chatham, legendary composer and performer, talks about the downtown music scene with guitarist Alan Licht.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of writer Jonathan Lethem by BOMB Editor-In-Chief Betsy Sussler, filmed at the Cleveland Institute of Art on October 2, 2008.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features a conversation between novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen, filmed at the Brooklyn Public Library on September 30, 2007.
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.
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! This video features a conversation between novelists Honor Moore and Victoria Redel, filmed at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC on June 30, 2008.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In Part 2 of this interview, 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!
WEB EXCLUSIVE Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Part one of a two-part interview.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of director Tom Kalin by director and BOMB contributor Bette Gordon, filmed at Columbia University on May 9, 2008.
A video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four. Writer and filmmaker Michael Almereyda joins An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session.
WEB EXCLUSIVE As part of their “True Mirror” project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Dexter Sinister has set up a mirror press office at the Commander’s Room of the 7th Regiment Armory. Visit them in person and read about them here!
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.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Songbird Jambalaya: Musician and musicologist Ned Sublette talks to “blues growler” Coco Robicheaux, a true Louisiana spirit—a survivor of Katrina and more.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Gabriela Jauregui talks with Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza, born in Lima and Tijuana, respectively, about how their daring recent novels cross the language barrier, the history/fiction divide, and Icarus’s fall.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Francisco Goldman’s new autobiographical novel, Say Her Name, is out now. He spoke with fellow novelist Silvana Paternostro in 2007.
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.
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.
WEB EXCLUSIVE David Levine spoke to director Michael Thalheimer as he prepared to bring his version of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu to New York. This interview is a part of the Select Equity Series on Theater.
Listen to a BOMBLive! This podcast features a conversation between authors A.M. Homes and Francine Prose, moderated by BOMB Editor-In-Chief Betsy Sussler, recorded at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom in the fall of 2007.
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.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Read an interview of novelist Nathan Englander by novelist Rivka Galchen, filmed at Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Auditorium on September 30, 2007.
