Always Already Existing: Arthur Jafa’s Aghdra Reviewed by Simon Wu
A new film that feels both primordial and futuristic.
Message and Method: Hannah Chalew Interviewed by Louis Bury
Organic installations that envision current and future worlds.
Global Systems of Labor: Hugo McCloud Interviewed by Will Fenstermaker
Making paintings with plastic, metal, and other industrial materials.
Installations that investigate colonialist control.
BOMB 155,
Spring 2021
Our spring issue features interviews with Tiffiney Davis, Alex Dimitrov, Melissa Febos, Valerie June, Tarik Kiswanson, Ajay Kurian, and Karyn Olivier; fiction by Jonathan Lee, Ananda Naima González, and Tara Ison; poetry by Jo Stewart, Farid Matuk, and Joyelle McSweeney; a comic by Somnath Bhatt; an essay by Wendy S. Walters; an archival interview between Barbara Kruger and Richard Prince; and more.
BOMB 156,
Summer 2021
Our summer issue features interviews with Mel Kendrick, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Kader Attia, Arthur Jafa and Dana Hoey, Quntos Kunquest, Katiana Rangel, and Anne Anlin Cheng; fiction by Jenzo DuQue, Dylan Landis, Anthony Veasna So, and Sophie Hoss; nonfiction by A.V. Marraccini; a comic by Ronald Wimberly; poetry by Arthur Solway, Rickey Laurentiis, and Alina Stefanescu; an essay and portfolio by Kalup Linzy; an archival interview with Suzan-Lori Parks; and more.
BOMB 157,
Fall 2021
Our Fall 2021 issue features interviews with Rabih Alameddine, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Suzanne Jackson, Candice Lin, Kevin Morby, Naudline Pierre, and Diane Williams; an essay from Hafizah Geter; short stories from Akil Kumarasamy, Harris Lahti, Holly Melgard, Edward Salem (winner of BOMB’s 2021 Fiction Contest), Adrian Van Young, and Diane Williams; a comic from Ricardo Cavolo; nonfiction from Hugh Ryan; poetry from John Keene and Marcus Wicker; a portfolio by Manthia Diawara; and Nam Le’s newly hand-annotated interview from 2009.
BOMB 158,
Winter 2022
Our Winter 2022 issue features interviews with Ilona Ruegg, James Beacham, Renée Greene, Solmaz Sharif, Bassem Saad, Henry Threadgill, James Hannaham, Marina Adams, and Martha Tuttle; an essay by Tina Campt; fiction by Christine Vines, Kim Fu, Caio Fernando Abreu, and Sebastian Castillo; poetry by Amit Majmudar and Xan Phillips; a portfolio by Seher Shah; a comic by Warren Craghead III; and Christian Viveros-Fauné’s newly hand-annotated interview from 2011.
BOMB Retrospective
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
IONE is Pauline Oliveros’s partner and collaborator of thirty-two years. Oliveros passed away in November 2016, but her powerful presence has left a lasting mark on experimental and electronic music globally. The following is IONE’s intuited conversation with the late Oliveros and a curated playlist expressive of her legacy.
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
Celebrating 40 years with curated selections from the archive.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
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Kara Walker