The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Bar Diary, Barcelona, District 5, Winter of 1979 by Roberto Bolaño & A.G. Porta
- Theaster Gates by Tom McDonough
- Paweł Althamer by Nell McClister
- Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin by Sabine Mirlesse
- Martin Wilner by Francis Levy
- Paola Prestini by Helga Davis
- A.G. Porta by Margaret Hooks
- Eugène Green by Nicholas Elliott
- Pierre Guyotat by Noura Wedell
Interviews
- Cristina de Middel by Pradeep Dalal
- Bethany Ides by Suzanne Joelson
- Leeza Meksin by Sophie Pinkham
Artists on Artists
- Five Poems by David Vandeloo
- The Good Farmer and the Bad Farmer, A Story of Woodchuck by Ted Pelton
- Bar Diary, Barcelona, District 5, Winter of 1979 by Roberto Bolaño & A.G. Porta
- The Cub by Celia Dovell Bell
- Poems and Drawings from Window-book by Semezdin Mehmedinović
- Kunicki: Water II from Runners by Olga Tokarczuk
- Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera by Richard Kraft
First Proof
- Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Selected Poetry, Edited and Translated by Stephen Sartarelli by Jonas Mekas
- Finnbogi Petursson’s Second/Second by Scott Turri
- Erik Satie’s A Mammal’s Notebook by Anthony Huberman
- Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens by Andrea Ray
- Takashi Makino’s 2012 by Marianne Shaneen
- Simon Critchley’s Memory Theatre by Nova Benway
- Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room by Jenn Joy
- Numero Group’s Music from the Mountain Provinces by Clinton Krute
- Astra Taylor’s The People’s Platform by Orit Gat
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From the train I could look out onto the infinite blue of the sea. I was still exhausted, wakeful from the overnight transatlantic flight to Rome, but looking out at the sea, that Mediterranean sea that was so infinite and so blue, made me forget it all, even myself. I don’t know why.
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Write this. We have burned all their
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Originally published in
BOMB 130,
Winter 2015
Featuring interviews with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Theaster Gates, Martin Wilner, Paola Prestini, A.G. Porta, Pierre Guyotat, Paweł Althamer, and Eugéne Green.
