BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City-based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it.
Today, BOMB is a multi-media publishing house that creates, disseminates, and preserves artist-generated content from interviews to artists’ essays to new literature. BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward.
BOMB Magazine is a print quarterly publishing in-depth interviews between artists alongside artists’ essays, literature, and portfolios. Subscribe today.
BOMB Daily publishes exchanges on artistic practice including interviews, literature, portfolios, and essays.
The BOMB Archive is a fully searchable and relational online library that provides access to the ongoing history of dialogue generated by BOMB since 1981. With funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, BOMB has made all of its content—over 7,500 primary cultural documents from the past 37 years—available for free.
The Oral History Project is a series of interviews that collects, documents, and preserves the life stories of New York City based visual artists of the African Diaspora.
Staff
Publisher, Editor In Chief
Betsy Sussler
Associate Publisher
Mary-Ann Monforton
Deputy Director
Lora Evinger
Senior Editor
Sabine Russ
Managing Editor
Benjamin Samuel
Associate Editor
Chantal McStay
Website Editor
Alan Gilbert
Director of Audience Development & Digital Production
Libby Flores
Marketing Manager
Bo Suh
Digital Coordinator
Josh Dassa
Director of Development
Lisa Metcalf
Development Associate
Sheryl Oppenheim
Director of Circulation
Ted Dodson
Circulation Assistant
Sunny Iyer
Performing Arts Fellow
Kristen Kubecka
Online Literature Editor
Raluca Albu
Oral History Fellow
Stephanie Goodalle
Editorial Assistant
Sophie Kovel
Creative Direction & Design
Everything Studio
Development Consultants
George Negroponte
WXY architecture and urban design
Printer
Printed in Iceland by Oddi Printing
Contributing Editors
ART
Regina Basha, Miyoshi Barosh (in memoriam), Cecily Brown, David Everitt-Howe, Joe Fyfe, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Stuart Horodner, Anthony Huberman, Judy Hudson, David Humphrey, Roberto Juarez, Shirley Kaneda, Deana Lawson, Zoe Leonard, Josiah McElheny, Saul Ostrow, Lucy Raven, Legacy Russell, Amy Sillman, Nick Stillman, Terence Trouillot, Kara Walker & Adam Pendleton
ARCHITECTURE
Stan Allen, Carlos Brillembourg, Deborah Gans
PERFORMING ARTS
Lauren Bakst, Liza Béar, Nicholas Elliott, Leon Falk, Carlos Gutiérrez, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jenn Joy, Clinton Krute, Ralph Lemon, Andrew Lampert, David Levine, Richard Maxwell, Amber Power, Mac Wellman
MUSIC
Michael Blair, Christina Campanella, Keith Connolly, David Grubbs, Lawrence Kumpf, Alan Licht, Mike McGonigal, Bruce Pearson, Ned Sublette, C. Spencer Yeh, John Zorn
LITERATURE
Ammiel Alcalay, Esther Allen, Madison Smartt Bell, Tom Bolt, Carmen Boullosa, Amina Cain, Mónica de la Torre, Ted Dodson, Deborah Eisenberg, Veronica Esposito, Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Roxane Gay, John Haskell, A.M. Homes, Gary Indiana, Patricia Spears Jones, Chris Kraus, Rachel Kushner, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Lethem, Tan Lin, Patrick McGrath, Robert Polito, Francine Prose, Christopher Stackhouse, Lynne Tillman, Colm Tóibín, Frederic Tuten
EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Adam Shatz
ORAL HISTORY ADVISERS
Sanford Biggers, Melvin Edwards, Thelma Golden, Kellie Jones, Odili Donald Odita, Lowery Stokes Sims, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten (in memoriam)
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Adam Bartos, Sarah Charlesworth (in memoriam), Sally Gall, Nan Goldin, Ben Handzo, Elliot Schwartz, William Wegman
Founders
Betsy Sussler
Glenn O’Brien
Michael McClard
Mark Magill
Sarah Charlesworth
with Liza Béar as adviser
Board of Trustees
Cary Brown-Epstein
Rosemary Carroll, Co-Chair
Jennifer Clifford Danner, President
Robert Dowling
Natalie Frank
Melinda Hackett
David Humphrey
Rachel Lee Hovnanian
Heather M. Johnson, Secretary/Treasurer
Jeremy Larner, Vice President
Adam McEwen
Sally Ann Page
Betsy Sussler
Lybess Sweezy, Co-Chair
Trustees Emeriti
Paul Cantor
Michele Oka Doner
Eric Fischl
Klaus Kertess, in memoriam
Frances Dittmer, in memoriam
Board of Advisers
John Chao
Michael Coffey
Andrew Fierberg
Nicole Klagsbrun
Jane Rosenblum
David Salle
Carolina Sandretto
Mickalene Thomas
Madeline Weinrib
Where can you get a print copy of BOMB? BOMB is available at independent bookstores and newsstands across North America. You can subscribe or buy individual issues direct from us.
You can also purchase digital editions of BOMB through our partner 0s & 1s.
If you’re a bookseller or newsstand interested in stocking BOMB please email Ted Dodson our Circulation Director.