Discover MFA Programs in Art and Writing
Artists As Mapmakers: Lena Henke Interviewed by Owen Duffy
Sculpture that connects architecture and the body.
Expanding the Canon: Jonathan Creasy Interviewed by Victoria Nebolsin
A new look at the Black Mountain poets.
Sound and Sculpture: Susan Philipsz Interviewed by James McAnally
A foundational sound artist presents a career-spanning overview.
Our quarterly roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes accepting applications.
Once there was a man who was tired of breathing. It’s just such a drag, he said. So he decided to stop, but found that he couldn’t—the air just kept going in and out.
Two artists manifest, claim, and demand space in a society that operates around violence against black women’s bodies while pretending that they don’t exist.
A post-apocalyptic story about a sea captain who parents alongside a penguin at the arctic center.
BOMB 147,
Spring 2019
Featuring interviews with Young Joon Kwak, Kazuo Hara, Bill Jenkins, Ligia Lewis, William Basinski, Titus Kaphar, José Roberto Cea, and Barry Lopez.
BOMB 148,
Summer 2019
Featuring interviews with Mary Weatherford, Nanfu Wang, Lee Quiñones, Venkatachalam Saravanan, Tyshawn Sorey, Ben Whishaw, Édouard Louis, Geovani Martins, Prageeta Sharma, and James Thomas Stevens.
BOMB 149,
Fall 2019
Featuring interviews with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Antoine Catala and Dan Graham, Atelier Bow-Wow, American Artist, Jeff Bliumis, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Carmen Giménez Smith.
BOMB 150,
Winter 2020
For our 150th issue, we have redesigned our flagship print magazine. This design reaffirms our mandate to deliver the artist’s voice, supporting the vital discourse that appears in BOMB with vivid imagery and innovative juxtapositions that encourage dialogue across the arts—from conversations between artists, writers, and performers to exciting literature. We present exchanges in their formative state: revelatory, fluid, and iconoclastic.
This issue features interviews with Bruce Pearson, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cathy Park Hong, Christiane Jatahy, and Seth Price, as well as fiction from Amelia Gray, Deb Olin Unferth, and Jenny Wu, and poetry from Sawako Nakayasu, Andrei Monastyrski, and Bob Holman.
Looking Back: BOMB on the Past Decade
BOMB artists and contributors reflect on what the past decade meant to them.
With contributions from Naeem Mohaiemen, Martha Rosler, Devin Kenny, Swoon, and more.
With contributions from Ottessa Moshfegh, Carl Phillips, Lidia Yuknavitch, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and more.
With contributions from Laurie Simmons, Amy Jenkins, Mary Helena Clark, and more.
With contributions from Okkyung Lee, Alan Licht, Aakash Mittal, and more.
My impulse was to write the last black play ever for myself. I really believed if I put it all into one play, people would leave me alone.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins