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Bomb (magazine)

American arts magazine edited by artists and writers

Summary

American arts magazine edited by artists and writers

Field	Value
title	Bomb
editor	Betsy Sussler, Benjamin Samuel, Tyler Considine, Juwon Jun, Janée A. Moses
editor_title	Editors
frequency	Quarterly
circulation	14,000
category	Arts magazine
company	New Arts Publications, Inc.
firstdate	Spring 1981
country	United States
based	New York City
language	English
website
issn	0743-3204
logo	BOMB Magazine.svg

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online. It is composed primarily of interviews between creative people working in a variety of disciplines—visual art, literature, film, music, theater, architecture, and dance. In addition to interviews, Bomb publishes reviews of literature, film, and music, as well as new poetry and fiction. Bomb is published by New Art Publications, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

History

Bomb was launched in 1981 by a group of New York City-based artists, including Betsy Sussler, Sarah Charlesworth, Glenn O'Brien, Michael McClard, and Liza Béar, who sought to record and promote public conversations between artists without mediation by critics or journalists.

The name Bomb is a reference to both Wyndham Lewis' Blast and the fact that the magazine's original editors expected the publication to "bomb" after one or two issues. Shortly after its founding, Bomb formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, New Art Publications, Inc., which publishes the journal.

In 2005, the Bomb offices moved from the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, New York, to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. By December 2019, Bomb had published one hundred fifty issues.

Notable contributors

Chris Abani
Kathy Acker
Stan Allen
Martin Amis
John Ashbery
Matthew Barney
Roberto Bolaño
Giannina Braschi
Carlos Brillembourg
S. D. Chrostowska
Joshua Cohen
Edwidge Danticat
Arthur C. Danto
Lydia Davis
Willem Dafoe
Junot Díaz
Geoff Dyer
Nicole Eisenman
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jonathan Franzen
Sean Gill
Robert Gober
Francisco Goldman
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Michael Greenberg
Mary Heilmann
Philip Seymour Hoffman
A. M. Homes
Gary Indiana
Jim Jarmusch
Barbara Kruger
Rachel Kushner
Olivia Laing
Ben Lerner
Roy Lichtenstein
Sam Lipsyte
Dimitris Lyacos
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ben Marcus
Kerry James Marshall
Allan McCollum
Eileen Myles
Al Pacino
Adam Phillips
Richard Prince
Francine Prose
Claudia Rankine
Mika Rottenburg
Salman Rushdie
David Salle
Richard Serra
Cindy Sherman
Anna Deavere Smith
Patti Smith
Quentin Tarantino
Mickalene Thomas
Colm Tóibín
Ryan Trecartin
Luc Tuymans
Edmund White
Caterina Verde

Archive at Columbia University

In 2004, Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired Bomb's archives, including twenty-four years' worth of audio recordings, raw and edited interview transcripts, manuscripts, galleys, and assorted ephemera.

Oral History Project

Since 2014, Bomb's Oral History Project has staged one-on-one interviews with New York City-based visual artists of the African descent, conducted by curators, scholars, and cultural producers.

The Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, developing, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora. The Oral History Project has organized interviews including: Wangechi Mutu by Deborah Willis, Kara Walker & Larry Walker, Edward Clark by Jack Whitten, Adger Cowans by Carrie Mae Weems, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe by Kalia Brooks, Melvin Edwards by Michael Brenson, Terry Adkins by Calvin Reid, Stanley Whitney by Alteronce Gumby, Gerald Jackson by Stanley Whitney, Eldzier Cortor by Terry Carbone, Peter Bradley by Steve Cannon, Quincy Troupe & Cannon Hersey, James Little by LeRonn P. Brooks, William T. Williams by Mona Hadler, Maren Hassinger by Lowery Stokes Sims, Linda Goode Bryant by Rujeko Hockley, Janet Olivia Henry and Sana Musasama by Stephanie E. Goodalle.

References

[https://www.jstor.org/publisher/nap New Art Publications, Inc.]
"Literary Magazines". Story Teller Art.
McClister, Nell. [http://bombmagazine.org/article/5650/bomb-magazine-celebrating-25-years "Bomb Magazine: Celebrating 25 Years"], ''Bomb'', Retrieved October 13, 2014.
Taylor, Kate. (June 21, 2007). "Artists Talking Art, for 25 Years". [[New York Sun]].
"Olivia Laing - Bomb Magazine".
"Mysterious Unfixable Elements: Olivia Laing Interviewed by Alex Zafiris - Bomb Magazine".
"Rare Book and Manuscript Library Acquires Bomb Magazine Archives". Columbia University.
Oral History Project. [https://bombmagazine.org/articles/betsy-sussler-on-the-oral-history-project/ "The Oral History Project"], ''Bomb'', Retrieved 30 October 2019.

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