BOMB 113/Fall 2010
How does the formless become form? Jane Dickson speaks with the sculptor Arlene Shechet on the eve of her one-woman exhibit at Jack Shainman Gallery––about time and the Buddhist precept of paying attention.
Michael Rother is perhaps best known as one half of German rock group Neu!, whose three-album body of work from the 1970’s is widely considered to be among the most unique and soaringly beautiful music of the era.
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.
Martinican musician/linguist Jacques Coursil just released Trail of Tears, a new album featuring his signature trumpet sound—reminiscent of speech. Jason Weiss talks record labels with him, the heydays of jazz, identity, academia, and more.
The Portuguese novelist, critic, and translator passed away June 18th, 2010. Here’s an interview he did with Katherine Vaz in the summer of 2001.
Tom Healy, veteran of New York’s art scene, lecturer and activist, is garnering praise for his first book of poetry. Writer Carol Muske-Dukes speaks with Healy about growing up on a farm, about painting, pain, and the making of unsentimental poems.
Michelle Boulé dances as if possessed; she refers to it as channeling, movement as a conduit. Here she discusses her relationships with choreographers like Miguel Gutierrez and Deborah Hay and increasing intersections between dance and visual art.
The legendary animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, innovator of documents of generational angst like Fritz the Cat and Coonskin, has turned to visual art.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Bette Gordon’s third feature film Handsome Harry opens in New York on April 16. The director of the underground classics Variety and Luminous Motion speaks with producer and fellow professor Evangeline Morphos.
WEB EXCLUSIVE If you know Jace Clayton, you probably know him as DJ /rupture, a turntablist who has hopped styles from clattering noise to grimy dub to cumbia. Coming off his recent album Solar Life Raft, Clayton met with poet Alan Gilbert.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Thelma Golden has a conversation with Betsy Sussler standing in for Glenn Ligon in which they discuss African American artists, The Whitney, and Glenn Ligon’s refusal to use his Palm Pilot.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Novelist Peter Carey has a conversation with poet Robert Polito in which they discuss Ned Kelly, Australian history, and Carey’s book, True History of the Kelly Gang, at The New School in the fall of 2001.
Tan Lin is interested in non-print forms of reading—potted plants, traffic lights, spoken words, strip malls, WD50—and approaches the book as a repository of dispersed ambient textuality.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Harvey Shapiro, one of New York’s major 20th-Century literary figures, is a poet and former editor of the New York Times Book Review. Here he reveals why a New York poet constantly works with found material.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Amanda Ross-Ho’s sculptures interweave handcrafted family artifacts with generic, mass-produced objects in an attempt to “reclaim nostalgia as a viable language.” She and Elad Lassry discuss how her bohemian upbringing shapes her work.
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.
Watch a BOMBLive! Ned Smyth by Keith Sonnier, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
WEB EXCLUSIVE When sound installation artist Margaret de Wys was diagnosed with breast cancer, she left all she had established to be healed by a shaman in the Ecuadorian jungle … and it worked. Her new book, Black Smoke, describes how.
Oskar Eustis, the Public’s Artistic Director, and his collaborator, Hewes Award-winning set designer David Korins. Having recently collaborated on Passing Strange among other productions, the two discuss how process makes perfect.
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 Francisco Suniaga y Federico Vegas, dos destacados novelistas venezolanos, hablan de los personajes trágicos y legendarios de la historia venezolana que habitan sus ficciones.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Francisco Suniaga and Federico Vegas, two of Venezuela’s most celebrated novelists, discuss those tragic and legendary characters of Venezuela’s history inhabiting their fiction. Also available in Spanish.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Tristan Perich’s album 1-Bit Symphony is actually a programmed microchip. Live, he accompanies the complex bleeps and bloops of its songs with a harpsichord. With Nick Hallett, he expounds on the algorithmic impulse of his art.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortlisted for a National Book Award for her poetry book Or To Begin Again, Ann Lauterbach discusses the function of the undead in her work and explains the art of the “imagined community.”
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortly before the release of his latest book, American Power—photos highlighting the American addiction to energy production and consumption—Mitch Epstein divulges what inspired the project and how he next plans to make it public.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Sculptor Rona Pondick on bodily fragmentation and the manipulation of the museum at her Worcester Art Museum exhibition.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Quinlan’s photographs picture—literally—smoke and mirrors; Beshty makes photos without a camera. They meet on a New York Chinatown rooftop to discuss their work.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE Painter Trevor Winkfield and writer Maggie Paley meet at Winkfield’s studio to discuss Winkfield’s graphic, disquieting, and bizarrely ceremonial paintings.
Watch a BOMBLive! Artist Judy Pfaff talks with Betsy Sussler in this Art:21 co-production filmed at the New York Public Library.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In this epistolary exchange, novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen discuss the art of writing, pop culture, the Argentina of the Dirty Wars, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination.
