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Issue 103 Spring 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
WEB EXCLUSIVE BOMB 104 SNEAK PREVIEW! Filmmaker and installation artist Catherine Sullivan and choreographer Meg Stuart speak of mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in ensemble-based work.
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Through the protagonist of his long-awaited first novel, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz weaves an epic tale of Trujillo’s Dominican Republic and its diaspora, complete with sci-fi metaphors.
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Olafur Eliasson has evolved a body of “objectless” work ranging from discrete installations to museum-wide environments. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, his first comprehensive U.S. survey, is on view at MoMA through June 30th.
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Listen to audio clips of readings from BOMB’s All-Stars Reading on May 12, 2006 at The New School, featuring a literary line-up of contributors to our Spring 2006 “Living Legends” 25th Anniversary issue.
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The first installment of BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series. Listen to audio of Peter Orner!
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View an exclusive slideshow of images from Joseph Bartscherer’s Forest grid and read his conversation with photographer James Welling.
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In the print issue, painters Steve DiBenedetto and David Humphrey discuss their studios as prosthetic rooms — extensions of the artists’ personalities — authentic fictions, dirty optics, and the hum of existence. Read on about matters of faith.
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Lore Segal’s Shakespeare’s Kitchen, explores personal and historical events with startling insight. Playwright and novelist Han Ong reminisces with the author, a 2008 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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Zachary Lazar’s second novel, Sway, interlaces fictional accounts of some of the ’60s most iconic headliners. In this outtake they discuss the historical novel and art’s dwindling ability to shock.
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Lush Life is Richard Price’s eighth novel, now in print and receiving rave reviews. In this 1990 interview, Amos Poe talks to Price about his status as the “best screenwriter in the country” and his “cop phase.”
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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!
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