Mass Media
Two films tell the tragic story of reporter Christine Chubbuck’s on-air suicide in 1974.
Wry installations and revelatory sculptures blend art-making and activism in Chin’s unique practice of transformation.
Hollywood, its shopworn (and ridiculous) gender constructs, and canned sentimentality are the prime targets of David Berezin’s work in photography and video.
Was the Internet intended for you? It’s hard to think about it structurally without throwing personal use into the mix.
John Miller and Liam Gillick talk about repurposing painting, conceptualism, and reality TV.
This is an unedited raw transcript, made available as a BOMB Web Extra.
The night I set off into dry weeds
with a red plastic gas can
When my symptoms became worse, I decided to consult a doctor, only to discover that nothing more could be done for me.
Producer Omar Amanat speaks with author Nichole Argo on her groundbreaking study, The Human Bombs Project.
In Chicago, where I live, I can eat a cup of decent pea soup at a bakery across the street from the Richard J. Daley Center, a sharp steel and glass courthouse tower.
The relation of images is the crux of writer David Levi Strauss’s work, though it’s by no means a sedentary position. He sat down with longtime friend and writer Hakim Bey to discuss how images operate in the public imaginary.
Documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim invites viewers into both Al Jazeera, Arab-language satellite television, and CentCom, the US military news center, for two very different media portrayals of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Winner of the Whitney Museum’s first Bucksbaum award in 2000, Paul Pfeiffer has received attention over the last few years for his provocative digital video production.
Clifford Ross deals with his personal helplessness during the events of September 11th as he discusses his new perspective on his own actions, as well as the world.
Shot on location in Mexico in Spanish and a variety of Indian dialects, John Sayles’s film Hombres Armados (Men with Guns) is in many ways a truly foreign film. David L. Ulin talks with Sayles about how the film reflects the cultures it portrays.
An in-depth interview with “one of America’s most indispensable and independent thinkers,” bell hooks, by BOMB contributing editor Lawrence Chua.
James Rosenquist, one of the key American Pop Artists, has been making and showing his paintings for several decades. His early ’60s work, like that of Warhol and Lichtenstein, provides a seductive but critical mirror image of the mass media.
