As artists, we have to find the antidote to this darkness right now, to how everything feels so compressed rather than expanded.
—
Meredith Monk
From Silver Caution by Angela Jaeger
- Jem Cohen by J.P. Sniadecki
- Tom Burr by Alan Ruiz
- Portia Zvavahera by Netsayi
- SO – IL by Troy Conrad Therrien
- Sarah Ruden by Eric Banks
- Mayo Thompson by Keith Connolly
- Maylis de Kerangal by Jessica Moore
- Stephen Collier & Michael St. John
Interviews
- Fia Backström by Robert Fitterman
- Mike Goodlett by Ben Durham
- Max Galyon by Jacqueline Humphries
Artists on Artists
- On Dossiers, Permitting Shame, Error and Guilt, Myself the Single Source by Brian Blanchfield
- Young Robert by Patty Yumi Cottrell
- Individualism by Luke Williams & Natasha Soobramanien
- Signor Hoffman by Eduardo Halfon
- George Washington by Adam Fitzgerald
- We Believe in Regarding the Nature of Being by Dawn Lundy Martin
- From The Autobiography of Jean Foos by Jessica Grim & Melanie Neilson
- From Silver Caution by Angela Jaeger
First Proof
- BOMB Specific by Carolina Sandretto
BOMB Specific
- Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins’s Fantastic Architecture by Eva Díaz
- Harry Bertoia’s Complete Sonambient Collection by Steve Roden
- John Wieners’s Supplication: Selected Poems and Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals by Patrick James Dunagan
- Becca Blackwell’s They, Themself and Schmerm by Amber Power
- Fred Dewey’s The School of Public Life by Ammiel Alcalay
- César Alvarez’s Futurity and Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp’s The Creeping Garden by Michael Blair
- Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power by Terence Trouillot
- Patricia Spears Jones’s A Lucent Fire by Rachel Levitsky
Editor's Choice
Discover MFA Programs in Art and Writing
Angela Sees More, Journal Cover, 1977, 8¼ × 6⅞ inches. All images courtesy of the artist.
Kickwants London Style Journal Page, October 21st, 1978, 10½ × 8 inches.
No Make Up to Make Up, Journal Page, December 5th, 1976, 8¼ × 6⅞ inches.
Silver Girl, Journal Page, August 10th, 1977, 8¼ × 6⅞ inches.
Related
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983 at the Museum of Modern Art and The Mudd Club book.
The prolific New York lyricist digs into songcraft on the occasion of his new autobiographical album, 50 Song Memoir.
“Dub was my sound because of postcolonial movements. I grew up in it. I bathed in it. I breathed it. So why shouldn’t it be mine?”
Originally published in
BOMB 134,
Winter 2016
Featuring interviews with Jem Cohen, Tom Burr, Maylis de Karengal, Portia Zvavahera, SO - IL, Sarah Ruden, Michael St. John, Stephen Collier, Mayo Thompson.
