Interview
A multidisciplinary artist talks about collaborative work.
A multidisciplinary artist talks about collaborative work.
On speaking visually.
A multidisciplinary artist addresses personal and collective experience.
For BOMB’s Oral History Project, Odili Donald Odita, known for his geometric paintings, recalls growing up as a refugee from the Nigerian Civil War and the influence of his father, a historian of African art.
In this excerpt from her interview in BOMB’s winter 2021 issue, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses activism, gay bars, and her forthcoming book, The Freezer Door.
A slacker novel that fights against the philosophy of brokenness, one Hot Cheetos bag at a time.
A novel that explores how a family can hide inside itself.
A hybrid art aims to reveal interconnection.
Syms’s research-driven and multi-platform works make use of surveillance and image-capture technologies to present Black female experience in both virtual and physical space.
A poetry collection by a poet in constant transit between languages.
The artist embraces revision, contradiction, and fallibility in a culture that prizes singular genius.
A poetry collection about how to handle unfinished business.
Rendering an absurdist dinner party in stainless steel sculpture.
A musician’s take on Glenn Hendler’s Diamond Dogs, fascism, and how art can make us more empathetic.
On writing queer characters that identify themselves, and their relationships, on their own terms.
Installation and sculpture that investigate the Anthropocene.
Creating a poetic history book with collage.
A virtual encounter with whale song.
A feminist manifesto that centers artists as the engineers of a queer and Black imagined future.
Two poets in conversation about the underworld, kissing life, and neurodivergence.
