Where on the spectrum of loyalty and betrayal does song begin? And where does it end? I think each writer has to decide this over and over.
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Sharon Olds
BOMB Specific by R. H. Quaytman & Geoff Kaplan
- Rebecca Solnit by Astra Taylor
- Joel Shapiro by Michèle Gerber Klein
- Karole Armitage by Lukas Ligeti
- Lydia Peelle by Gillian Welch
- Allora & Calzadilla by Carlos Motta
- Thomas Bradshaw by Margo Jefferson
- Allen Ruppersberg by Cheryl Donegan
- Cherien Dabis by June Stein
Interviews
- Ventriloquy by Christopher Sorrentino
- Human / Nature by Stephen Ratcliffe
- Four Poems by Nicole Steinberg
- Four Works by Valérie Belin
- Mrs. Dellums Speaks by Solon Timothy Woodward
- Two Poems by Paul Guest
- You Look Like You Do by Victoria Redel
First Proof
- Micachu and the Shapes by Anni Rossi
- Tala Madani by Diana Al-Hadid
- Dan Schmidt by James Siena
Artists on Artists
- Harold Falckenberg and Peter Weibel’s Paul Thek: Artist’s Artist by Nick Stillman
- Emory Douglas: Black Panther by David Kramer
- Michael Almereyda’s Paradise by Lucy Raven
- Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
- R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis Illustrated by Paul W. Morris
- Glory Hole and the Hot Tub by Rachel Kushner
- The Vaselines: Enter the Vaselines by Eric Schneider
- The Fly Girlz: Da’ Brats From Da’ Ville by Cameron Shaw
- Wesley Brown’s Push Comes to Shove by Patricia Spears Jones
- Mercè Rodoreda’s Death in Spring by Katherine Elaine Sanders
- L.J. Davis’s A Meaningful Life by Mónica de la Torre
- Susan Jennings’s THIS: A Collection of Artists’ Writings by Robert Fitterman
Editor's Choice
Since 2001, I have structured my work as if it were a book of paintings with evolving chapters: the story unfolds via the exhibition situations, the past work, the paintings themselves, and the viewer’s place before them. The size of these chapters can range in size from one painting to however many I choose. The paintings—all either a golden ratio or a square—must always be one of six sizes priced accordingly.
These four pages are an outline of an underlying structure showing chapter titles, dimensions, and prices. The op patterns function as background noise to scramble legibility. I developed them as drawings with San Francisco–based graphic designer Geoff Kaplan, who designed my book Allegorical Decoys. Currently, we are working on an upcoming publication and used this project to begin a visual discussion about it.
—R. H. Quaytman
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A few years ago I began producing one-off publications that I registered officially with the International Standard Book Number agency. After a while I started to receive letters from the Legal Deposit department at the British Library asking me why I had not sent copies of my books, as required by law.
A few years ago I began producing one-off publications that I registered officially with the International Standard Book Number agency. After a while I started to receive letters from the Legal Deposit department at the British Library asking me why I had not sent copies of my books, as required by law.
We generally expect our artists to be more interesting people than those from other walks of life, and we reward them for their special abilities to help the rest of us find complexity of meaning, beauty and even grandeur in the world around us.
Originally published in
BOMB 109,
Fall 2009
Featuring interviews with Allen Ruppersberg and Cheryl Donegan, Allora & Calzadilla, Joel Shapiro, Lydia Peelle, Rebecca Solnit, Cherien Dabis, Karole Armitage and Lukas Ligeti, and Thomas Bradshaw.
