BOMB Magazine: Archive

November 2018

““I love to be entertained and titillated. I also have a brain and it’s hard to stop thinking and fully enjoy problematic things.” Roxane Gay, BOMB 128”—

Nov 27, 2018 7 notes

January 2018

Jan 24, 2018 24 notes

#art #textile #mixed media #nigerian art #victor ehikhamenor

November 2017

Byron Westbrook: Field Recording #13, “Silo and 224 Centre Synth”

There are actually two recordings here, made many months apart and then superimposed on one another. For me, each would qualify as play—as both scenarios only involved turning on a recorder in a particular space, without any intention of producing a proper piece. More than anything, each was straight documentation.

–Byron Westbrook, in a piece commissioned for BOMB.

Nov 13, 2017 4 notes

#ambient #byron westbrook #field recording #music

Nov 13, 2017 4 notes

#nina chanel abney #painting #studio

“People in power probably assumed that because I was writing about poor black southerners, no one would want to read about them. It feels good to get this kind of recognition now and to know that many will read about the kind of people I’m talking about and find the stories universal in some way.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing

Nov 13, 2017 24 notes

#jesmyn ward #race #writing #novels

November 2016

“I would maintain that an individual body cannot be really understood or described if you treat it as bounded by its skin.”—Anthony McCall, BOMB 97

Nov 10, 2016 54 notes

#quotes #life #anthony mccall #contemporary art

Nov 8, 2016 12 notes

#hillary clinton #art #poster #jonathan horowitz #jewish museum #im with her

October 2016

Oct 31, 2016 12 notes

#Asger Carlsen #photography #body #portraiture #surrealism #wtf #Black and White #Happy Halloween #costume

Oct 31, 2016 18 notes

#painting #Happy Halloween #costume #dana schutz #art

Oct 19, 2016 235 notes

#dianna frid #art #collage #painting

Oct 19, 2016 31 notes

#sarah oppenheimer #art #installation art

Oct 19, 2016 25 notes

#painting #art #njideka akunyili crosby #nigeria

“If your character is a macho, then let him be as macho as macho can be. Just recognize that if everything in your book is macho and you don’t realize it because that’s how you see the world, it’s a blindspot.”—Laia Jufresa, author of Umami, from her conversation with Valeria Luiselli in BOMB 137.

Oct 18, 2016 12 notes

#writing #lit #books #feminism #laia jufresa

“I felt a great deal of hesitation and fear, and I assumed that I would never publish anything—it doesn’t make sense to me now, and, at this point, it’s hard to go back into that kind of mental territory. My life was a struggle. I don’t want to go into detail about what kind of struggle, but, you know, I struggled, and I was always having these little epiphanies where I would think, Oh my God, I’m thirty-one and I’ve finally figured it out. Oh, I’m thirty-six, forty-two, or forty-nine. I constantly felt I was always just finally getting life right. I was never out of my mind, or maybe I should say I was out of my mind in a very sane way, where I was just sitting down and thinking hard about everything I could figure out about life and then drawing conclusions.”—Nell Zink (Mislaid, Nicotine) from her conversation in BOMB 137

Oct 18, 2016 15 notes

#nell zink #writing #books #lit

Oct 18, 2016 6 notes

#okwui okpokwasili #dance #choreography #art #quotes

August 2016

“It’s really important for the art world to bring in more people, and not just this isolated art crowd. That kills art.”—Jeffrey Vallance

Aug 9, 2016 26 notes

#art #quotes #creativity #jeffrey vallance

“What expression isn’t a negotiation of some sort?”—Maggie Nelson

Aug 9, 2016 27 notes

#maggie nelson #writing #quotes #lit #literature

“Sometimes you have to look back and say, ‘Fuck, how was I able to make that shit?’”—Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Aug 9, 2016 13 notes

#felix gonzalez-torres #art #quotes

“Identity is incredibly abstract. I mean, our deepest drives are basically unknown to us.”—Sadie Benning, BOMB 135

Aug 8, 2016 30 notes

#sadie benning #identity #art #quotes

Aug 8, 2016 39 notes

#new orleans #art #street art #graffiti #mural #painting #nola

“Memory is this terribly treacherous terrain, the very ambiguities of memory go to feed self-deception.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, BOMB 29

Aug 8, 2016 25 notes

#kazuo ishiguro #quotes #lit #literature #writing #memory

Aug 8, 2016 18 notes

#tony oursler #Black and White #photography #vintage #art

May 2016

May 17, 2016 9 notes

#art #google #technology #tech #art history #preservation

May 12, 2016 12 notes

#art #sculpture #installation #haim steinbach

“I wanted the narrator to be respectful of Sergio Y.’s identity. I wanted to make a non-issue of it. She is transgender. So what? She is transgender in the same way that someone might be blonde or might stutter. As a gay man, I would argue that gender and sexual identities are irrelevant, complete non-issues.”—Alexandre Vidal Porto on his novel Sergio Y.

May 11, 2016 8 notes

#alexandre vidal porto #lit #writing #books #literature #transgender

May 11, 2016 23 notes

#painting #nicole eisenman #art #portrait #new museum

May 10, 2016 5 notes

#aidan koch #comics #zine #comic #Illustration #gif #animated gifs #lit #books #writing #art

“The marriage equality campaign perfectly exemplifies this conservative move: defined as the civil rights issue of our times, countless resources have been invested in passing laws that would recognize same-sex marriages as ‘equal.’ In my view this focus is myopic at best. As sexual minorities, we have the opportunity to challenge institutions to produce radical changes, but we have conformed to being included and tolerated. What happened with radical visions of the future?”—Carlos Motta

May 6, 2016 13 notes

#carlos motta #civil rights #equality #art #politics

“I’m not influenced by literature. I find everything I need in the reality of life, in my place within that reality. My fears are there. My sexuality comes from there too, so does my suffering, my looniness. And my big desire to dissolve myself in the body of a man who I am madly in love with.”—Abdellah Taïa

May 4, 2016 29 notes

#writing #lit #books #abdellah taïa

May 4, 2016 19 notes

#photography #photoshop #lucas blalock #art #interview #brecht #contemporary art

April 2016

“Every jot seems to be crucial. With a word one can hold back the world.”—Gordon Lish on writing

Apr 27, 2016 7 notes

#editing #writing #lit #books #advice #gordon lish

Apr 26, 2016 2 notes

#party #tropical 128 #nyc #nyc events #bomb magazine #gala #after party

Apr 26, 2016 41 notes

#martha rosler #collage #art #photomontage #william j simmons

Apr 20, 2016 12 notes

#bomb magazine #art #auction #contemporary art #terry adkins #ellen carey #ryan foerster #sarah charlesworth #shezad dawood #jacqueline humphries #jessica jackson hutchins #barbara kasten #zoe leonard #Anthony McCall

Apr 11, 2016 28 notes

#feminist art #queer art #art #collage #andriana minoliti

March 2016

“When I was in graduate school, my son was ten months old and I was just kind of coming to my practice. I really wasn’t full-on practicing prior to then. I feel like I was really lucky to come into family, motherhood, adulthood, and being an artist simultaneously. That period of time shaped my work and shaped me. But during the two years I was in school, I was definitely self-conscious about my work revealing too much of my life—especially the early years of having a child. They really completely engulf your mind and body, in a way. I felt like I wouldn’t be taken seriously, which is really silly, because it’s like, Why wouldn’t I be taken seriously? It’s such a potent and unique moment totally worthy of expressing. And, of course, now I very much embrace it.”—Alina Tenser, in her BOMB interview with Rachel Valinsky.

Mar 28, 2016 14 notes

#alina tenser #writing #art #rachel valinsky #feminism #motherhood

Mar 24, 2016 12 notes

#anna k.e. #bushwick #performance art

Mar 23, 2016 17 notes

#film #art #shezad dawood

Mar 23, 2016 8 notes

#wendy ewald #photography #portrait #art

Mar 16, 2016 14 notes

#sadie benning #art #painting #contemporary art

Mar 15, 2016 4 notes

#vijay iyer #performance #classical music #jazz #music

“In the end, you’re not really looking to wow an audience. That’s very satisfying, but you’re pretty callow if you measure yourself against the applause. You measure yourself against the work that wows you.”—Christopher Sorrentino, from his conversation with Dana Spiotta in BOMB.

Mar 15, 2016 23 notes

#writing #advice #quotes #lit #books #christopher sorrentino #the fugitives #dana spiotta

“I tend to feel rhythm in my torso. Maybe that’s because I play seated and my torso is the only part that can move. But when it’s there, everything else follows and the hand is connected to it. I like to tell my students that a lot of music happens below the neck, in your heart and in your gut. They really can get a little heady with things and I have to remind them: music is first and foremost a way for us to move together.”—Composer Vijay Iyer, currently the performance artist in residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mar 14, 2016 20 notes

#vijay iyer #music #performance #classical music #metropolitan museum of art #Met Museum #met breuer #quotes

Mar 11, 2016 7 notes

#sculpture #johannes bendzulla #photography #collage #art #contemporary art

“I’d worked on this book on and off for a long time, and there were days when I thought I couldn’t wait to be done with it. Yet when it was finished, really out of my hands, I suddenly had this feeling like I didn’t know who I was without it. Who was I as a person and as a writer, who for so long had been immersed in the particular language of one particular book? But as for what a book is to you once it’s done—an old friend, an ex, a child, a stranger, a second cousin? My guess is it’s different for every book. I go through periods of feeling quite put off by my own books, then I’ll have these epiphanic-seeming mornings where I want to press them into people’s hands, and then late nights where I’ll hardly recognize them, and around it goes. My impulse, really, has been to step away from them once they’re done.”—Danielle Dutton on her new novel Margaret the First, from a conversation with Kate Zambreno.

Mar 10, 2016 11 notes

#danielle dutton #kate zambreno #writing #lit #books #margaret the first #catapult books #advice

Mar 10, 2016 32 notes

#johannes bendzulla #painting #collage #art #contemporary art #portfolio

Mar 10, 2016 6 notes

#film #the lobster #yorgos lanthimos #greece #cinema #colin farrell #rachel weisz #peter strickland

Mar 10, 2016 17 notes

#nyc #brooklyn #greenlight bookstore #alvaro enrigue #kate zambreno #daniel poppick #bomb magazine #party #nyc events #brooklyn events #fort greene #books #lit

“I have a desire to investigate female lives, not to represent them in some exterior way, but to burrow inside them and start to crack up what’s calcified there, to press against repression or restriction, or even narrative itself, to press against whatever is holding that life too tightly. Then again, even that rambling and awkward thought is so much more definite than anything I would think to myself when I sit down to write.”—Danielle Dutton, from her conversation with Kate Zambreno on her new novel Margaret the First.

Mar 8, 2016 14 notes

#lit #writing #books #danielle dutton #kate zambreno #history #historical fiction #novels

Mar 7, 2016 101 notes

#suzanne mcclelland #art #painting #new york #New York City #contemporary art