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Founded in 1981, BOMB Magazine is a not-for-profit quarterly, currently celebrating 25 years of legendary interviews between artists, writers, architects, directors and musicians.
Started because its early editors saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way in which it was described by critics, BOMB aims to reveal, intimately and intellectually, an artist's creative process through in-depth conversations between peers.
Over the past quarter century it has become one of the leading magazines on American culture.
BOMB interviews are primary documents of American cultural history; our archive consists of more than 800 historical records comprising the voices of 1,400 major figures in the arts.
The BOMBLive! series was launched in 2001 and has included interviews with Philip Lopate, Carroll Dunham, Rick Moody, and Peter Carey, among others. For more information about BOMBLive! and past series, please visit: bombsite.com.
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Bomb Magazine 25th Anniversary Gala: Paula Fox, Amy Hempel, and Patricia Spears Jones listen |
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First broadcast June 2, 2008
BOMB Magazine celebrated its 25th Anniversary year of publishing legendary interviews with an all-star line-up of literary talents featured in BOMB's Spring 2006 "Living Legends" Anniversary issue. The event took place in The New School's infamous Tishman Auditorium and included readings by Paula Fox, Amy Hempel, Patricia Spears Jones, Lynne Tillman, and Frederic Tuten.
BOMB Magazine's 25th Anniversary Spring Gala event held April 10, 2006 at The Park restaurant in Manhattan's Chelsea section featured a silent auction and a fascinating crowd. The perfect scenario for our Delphine Blue, who roamed the floor to collect interviews and observations. (47 minutes)
This program features Irish novelist, journalist and playwright Colm Toibin and Nigerian novelist and poet Chris Abani. Each writer reads from his work and a conversation between the two follows. The program was produced by BOMB Magazine at the KGB Bar in New York City on April 28, 2006 as part of the PEN American Center's PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. Paul Morris, Director of Special Projects for Bomb, and Betsy Sussler, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, introduce the program.
Chris Abani was born in Afikpo, Nigeria in 1966. Abani's fiction includes The Virgin of Flames, GraceLand, Masters of the Board, and Becoming Abigail. His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne's Lot, and Kalakuta Republic. He lives and teaches in California.
Born in Ireland in 1955, Colm Toibin is the author of five novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is winner of the Los Angeles Novel of the Year and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. His nonfiction includes The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994).
BOMB Magazine's live interview series for 2005, The Figure in Narrative, paired a prominent novelist or poet with an acclaimed visual artist for an intimate discussion about the creative process. WPS1 recorded Lorenzo Pace as he was interviewed by Patricia Spears Jones on Nov. 9, 2005 at the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, who co-sponsored the event. Betsy Sussler, Editor-in-Chief of Bomb Magazine introduces the program.
Lorenzo Pace is an artist whose sculptures, installations and performance art have received worldwide acclaim. His 300-ton homage to African slaves on a burial site discovered in lower Manhattan was unveiled in 2000. He is also the author of the children's book, Jalani and the Lock, based on his great grandfather's voyage from Africa to America.
Patricia Spears Jones is an award-winning poet and the author of the collection The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press). She is a contributing editor to Heliotrope and is the co-editor Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women. She is one of five poets commissioned by Mabou Mines for a performance piece entitled Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting, to premiere in July, 2006. (52.5 minutes)
WPS1 Managing Director David Weinstein invited some of our Tribeca neighbors (who also occupied booths near to our Armory Show studio) to introduce themselves. Jeanette Ingberman, founder and Director of Exit Art brought along the organization's co-founder, artist Papo Colo who was selling his blood at the Show. Director of Marketing & Special Projects Paul Morris (no relation to the one who founded the Armory Show)
spoke about the 25th anniversary of BOMB magazine, where conversations between artists (in transcript) has become their mission. BOMB also is now a partner with WPS1 to bring recordings of these conversations to the Internet. (11 minutes)
BOMB Magazine's live interview series for 2005, The Figure in Narrative, paired a prominent novelist or poet with an acclaimed visual artist for an intimate discussion about the creative process. WPS1 recorded Dana Schutz as she was interviewed by Mei Chin on Nov. 2, 2005 at the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, who co-sponsored the event.
Mei Chin is a writer living in New York City. She has written for Saveur, Fiction, New York Times and Vogue. She was the recipient of the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in May 2005.
Dana Schutz was born in 1976 in Livonia, Michigan and received an MFA in 2002 from Columbia University. She has had solo exhibitions at the Nerman Museum of Art/JCCC in Kansas City, LFL Gallery and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale 2003, Prague Biennial 2003, Victoria Miro, London, the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Kunsthalle Mannheim. She lives and works in Harlem, New York.
BOMB Magazine's live interview series for 2005, The Figure in Narrative, paired a prominent novelist or poet with an acclaimed visual artist for an intimate discussion about the creative process. WPS1 recorded Eric Fischl as he was interviewed by A.M. Homes on Oct. 26, 2005 at the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, who co-sponsored the event.
Eric Fischl has been a trustee and contributor to BOMB for the last 15 years. His paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work can be seen at The Krefeld Project, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany Kunstmuseum, where he created a seminal series of paintings by working with actors, and at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City.
A. M. Homes is the author of numerous books including Things You Should Know and Music for Torching. She writes frequently on the arts for magazines including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta and McSweeney's and has been a contributing editor to BOMB for over a decade. Her first seminal interview with Eric Fischl for BOMB was in #50, published in winter 1994. Her long-awaited new novel, This Book Will Save Your Life, will be out in April 2006.
