If the soul and the ego were objects we could look at, the soul would be a translucent heart beating.
—
George Condo
The Wick by Dread Scott
Part of the The Wick series.
- Mika Rottenberg by Judith Hudson
- Thomas Hirschhorn by Abraham Cruzvillegas
- David Toop by Keith Connolly
- Adam Phillips by Sameer Padania
- Fred Tomaselli by David Shields
- Charlie Smith by John Reed
- Charline Von Heyl by Shirley Kaneda
- Jan Lauwers by Elizabeth LeCompte
Interviews
- Portfolio by Judith Hudson
- Dying Is All I Think About by Alissa Nutting
- Four Poems by Patricia Spears Jones
- Half-Life by Mark Slouka
- i am writing to inform you of what i am doing by Christian Hawkey
- Endurance by Steve Tomasula
- Drawings from 21 Love Poems and The Fried Tale (London Zoo) by Caroline Bergvall
First Proof
- Michael Ballou by William Corwin
- Monika Baer by Laura Bruce
- Patricia Esquivias by Manuela Moscoso
Artists on Artists
- Jameson Ellis’s Improved M16 Prototype #1 by Zachary Lazar
- Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void by Lena Valencia
- Frédrique Bergholtz and Iberia Pérez’s (Mis)Reading Masquerades by Christopher Stackhouse
- Inner Views, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Studio Museum in Harlem by Patricia Spears Jones
- Brandon Downing’s Lake Antiquity by Ben Mirov
- The Books’s The Way Out by Peter Moysaenko
- Endless Boogie’s Full House Head by Clinton Krute
- Josiah McElheny’s The Light Club and A Prism by Sabine Russ
- Justin Spring’s Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Jason Bauman
- Frederic Tuten’s Self Portraits: Fictions by Thomas Bolt
- The Art of McSweeney’s by Paul W. Morris
- Wacky Packages New New New by Nick Stillman
- John Phillip Santos’s The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy by Callie Enlow
Editor's Choice
Dread Scott. If God Didn’t Create The Earth, Where Would We Live?, 2010.
Related
Reminding us of what should never have been forgotten
“I don’t want the kind of career where everything is sensible and safe; I’d rather suffer through the anxiety of wondering where I’m going next than suffer the boredom of dancing in the same safe square.”
Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro testifies that James Baldwin’s embattled America is still our own.
Originally published in
BOMB 113,
Fall 2010
Featuring interviews with Charline Von Heyl, Fred Tomaselli, Mika Rottenberg, Thomas Hirschhorn, Adam Phillips, Charlie Smith, David Toop, and Jan Lauwers.
