Catherine Sullivan and Meg Stuart
‘It’s an odd thing to describe what your art is when so many of your desires are mediated through the desires of others.” Catherine Sullivan
“ This is what I like about the world. It just keeps asking you, ‘Here is another aspect. Do you see it? Are you listening?’”
“It’s the timing of the questioning that’s important—its depth, duration, repetition—as I think about these things, those signals become a time-based art, and get closer to music.”
“People define iconic buildings as being these singular things that transform everything else around them.” James Timberlake
“ I don’t trust myself to get by in the art world if I’m not provocative. I don’t think I could get away with doing stripes or circles because I wouldn’t have a convincing argument to back it up.”
“Border crossing from a sort of artisan industry dominated by small entrepreneurs—coyotes—into an increasingly large-scale industry integrated and controlled by the super-violent narco cartels.”
Excerpt from The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana
Smith goosed the accelerator with his snake-skin espadrilles.
Fiona Maazel on her second novel, Woke Up Lonely, and how its apocalyptic themes of loneliness and emotional isolation are reflected in its unique, fractured structure.
No Sparkly Pens, Please
Verbs. Label each verb Action or Linking.
Right around the time the war on terror began, I thought, Does Donna really need so many friggin’ flags?
Gioconda on Seventh Avenue
She entered the diner as if
Boundary
One side in haze, One in that painted blue erects the sky,
BOMB’s 2007 Fiction Prize Winner, selected by judge Amy Hempel.
Marjorie Welish on the work of Joe Fyfe.
Tristan Perich by Michèle Gerber Klein
At 25, Tristan Perich is obsessed with machines; music has been a part of his life since he was conscious.
B. Wurtz on the ambiguousness sculptor Charles Goldman aims for between “where his art ends and the rest of the world begins.”
Lovell takes on Leslie Hewitt’s smart and elegant work that probes the boundaries of photography and sculpture.
Matias Viegener & Christine Wertheim’s The /n/oulipian Analects by Tom La Farge
If you’re interested in the writing practices associated with Oulipo (founded in 1960, it has included Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec), you’ll want this book recording a 2005 conference on the poetics of constraint.
On June 23, 1962, in Mansfield, Ohio, the brutal murder of two young girls led to the arrest of Jerrell R. Howell, who admitted to the killings after a struggle to force them “to perform oral sodomy.”
While Deborah Baker’s packed compendium does indeed tell stories of the Beats in India and more—Corso’s confessions of unrequited love, Burroughs’s surly brushes with sex and death, Kerouac’s ad hoc pronouncements on writing and marriage—Ginsberg is the protagonist of this lush tale.
Hiding at the end of Vertov from Z to A, the thought-provoking new title co-edited by the filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, is the book’s “Forward!” It not only introduces the premise—an investigation of a single frame of Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Cameraby a wide-ranging group of artists, writers, and filmmakers—but also acts as the project’s manifesto.
Like the Velvet Underground, the Beach Boys, or the Stooges, The Fall is one of those pop bands that inspires breathless devotion and oceans of superlatives.
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is a darkly comedic documentary about a little known body of water found in the strange inland environs to the east of LA.
In the title story of Janet Sarbanes’s stingingly funny fiction debut, a character starts her own army as a way of separating from a lover and consolidating “self.”
J. Reuben Appelman’s haunting poetry is a seduction, a balance sheet of individual experience, and a cosmic echo.