For 26 years running, BOMB has published over 800 interviews between artists—that’s 1500 visual artists, writers, musicians, directors, architects, and actors who comprise an ongoing dialogue about the arts. A simple idea of complex proportions because it has changed the nature of cultural discourse.

Founded in 1981, BOMB was launched as a publication in which emerging and established artists could speak openly about the creative process through conversations between peers. In the pages of BOMB, artists become the authors of their own tales.

Named for Wyndham Lewis’s Blast, a 1917 journal edited by artists and writers, BOMB Magazine is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation that has been at the forefront of independent publishing for the last 26 years.

BOMB is published in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, as well as with the generous support of The Andy Warhol Arts Writing Initiative, Foundation 20 21, Bertha & Isaac Liberman Foundation, The Thanksgiving Fund, Select Equity Group, Inc., W. L. Lyons Brown Jr. Charitable Trust, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Frances Dittmer Family Foundation, and The Reed Foundation.

Visit our full list of BOMB Patrons.

YOU CAN HELP! Become a BOMB Patron! BOMB Magazine, aka New Art Publications, is a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation.

We need your support in order to continue publishing the best voices in art and literature! There are many ways in which individuals, foundations and corporations can participate. For more information, please contact:

Melissa Sandor
Development Director

BOMB Magazine
80 Hanson Place
Suite 703
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 636-9100

 

THE ARCHIVE

In 2005, Columbia University acquired the hard copies of the BOMB Archive—including audio tapes, marginalia, and multiple edits of interviews from the last quarter century—for their Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where they will be accessible to students and scholars worldwide, a true testament to BOMB’s legacy. We thank Columbia University for their generous support in this joint venture.

The Library has contributed 50 percent of the purchase price of $250,000; BOMB Magazine is in the process of raising the funds to match their commitment. Join us! Call (718) 636–9100×103.

LEADERS
$20,000 to $29,999
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

DONORS
$10,000 to $19,999
Michael Lynne
Peter Norton Family Foundation

 

BOMB’s RESERVE FUND

BOMB expresses its deep gratitude to the following artists for initiating a Reserve Fund for BOMB Magazine:
Eric Fischl
Robert Mangold
Jasper Johns
James Rosenquist