BOMB Magazine

07/08/2024

BOMB’s quarterly roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes has been updated for the summer. Find funding for your project and apply today!

https://bombmagazine.org/discover/fellowships-residencies/

07/08/2024

BOMB’s Small Press Flea (SPF) makes its return at Amant! Join us on August 17 for our annual summer market featuring your favorite local publishers and magazines.

https://bombmagazine.org/events/small-press-flea-2024/

07/08/2024

“I want to find ways for weird creative projects to exist despite increasingly adversarial circumstances.” —Joshua Citarella

With Louis Bury, the artist discusses finding alternative ways of supporting a creative practice.

Finding alternative ways of supporting an artistic practice.

07/07/2024

In this excerpt from Srikanth Reddy’s forthcoming book of lectures, “The Unsignificant,” the poet investigates the meaning and implications of the background through Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.”

Studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s infamous landscape painting in which Icarus’s “little splash off the coast” slips to the side, the poet considers the magnetic pull of the background detail.

07/07/2024

“As an artist, your ego goes away if you respond to the truth that all art, all creativity, comes from the collective consciousness.”
—Serj Tankian

The System of A Down frontman reflects on activism and meditation in his memoir, “Down With the System” (Hachette Books).

The System of A Down frontman on activism and meditation.

07/07/2024

“... they looked and said, ‘What are you going to do if we say you can’t be an Art major?’ I said, ‘I’ll do it anyway. I don’t need anybody’s permission.‘”

For BOMB’s , Cynthia Hawkins recounts her early arts education in the ’70s.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

07/06/2024

“The reason it took me so long to write this book is that I thought, People are always going to misunderstand this, people are always going to get her wrong.”

In her debut memoir, Nina St. Pierre reflects on her mother’s life after her self-immolation.

A daughter’s memoir about a mother’s unconventional life of self-immolation and spirituality.

07/06/2024

“With time, I came to think that we artists have this power to hallucinate, this desire to see something that doesn’t exist become real.” —Iván Argote

The artist peers detail the histories that motivate their practices and the mentorship that has informed their work.

07/05/2024

“Good work, for me, is work that alludes to ideas greater than a work’s immediate reference. Good work implies a life and meaning beyond its materiality.” —Cynthia Hawkins

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

07/05/2024

ICYMI: Decades of Pride celebrates q***r and trans film, visual art, poetry, and documentary from the ’80s to today.

Celebrating Pride with a selection from our archive. Recent histories of q***r film, visual art, poetry, and documentary.

07/05/2024

“I’m interested in seeing connections across histories as elliptical, as cyclical, and also holding a great absence of understanding to be filled in.” —Tiffany Sia

The artist’s new book explores estrangement in the postcolonial experience.

Image and text projects that create speculative planes of memory.

07/05/2024

On August 17, join us for the return of Small Press Flea (SPF)! This year, we will be at Amant with your favorite local publishers and magazines.

https://bombmagazine.org/events/small-press-flea-2024/

07/05/2024

“A scream from silence is much more powerful than a scream from noise.”
—Serj Tankian

The System of A Down frontman reflects on activism and meditation in his memoir, “Down With the System” (Hachette Books).

The System of A Down frontman on activism and meditation.

07/04/2024

Browse BOMB’s roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes currently accepting applications during the Summer 2024 season. Find your next artistic getaway and apply today!

07/04/2024

“I may be moved in any number of ways by a figure in the foreground, but it’s only a picture’s background that can really absorb me.” —Srikanth Reddy

In “The Unsignificant,” the poet contemplates the magnetic pull of the background figure.

Studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s infamous landscape painting in which Icarus’s “little splash off the coast” slips to the side, the poet considers the magnetic pull of the background detail.

07/04/2024

“Only through an honest acknowledgment of the past can we plan a more just future.”

This Fourth of July, revisit Amelia Rina’s review of “American Hex” by Christine Miller and Brittany Vega, an exhibition exploring the myth of America.

Acknowledging the past in order to construct a better future.

07/04/2024

“I didn’t see containers for women and femmes in the world that allowed for the multiplicity that I experienced in my mother.” —Nina St. Pierre

“Love Is a Burning Thing,” St. Pierre’s debut memoir, recounts a mother’s unconventional life of self-immolation and spirituality.

A daughter’s memoir about a mother’s unconventional life of self-immolation and spirituality.

07/03/2024

From the : Anna Qu by Yujin Na, August 2021.

The author discusses her immigration to the US and childhood factory work in her memoir, “Made in China.”

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2021/08/10/writing-against-the-american-dream-anna-qu-interviewed/

07/03/2024

“Roméo Mivekannin: Do you think that an image can save the world?
Iván Argote: I wouldn’t dare to, but it is our responsibility to try.”

For BOMB’s new series, Narratives of Influence, the artists detail the histories that motivate their practices.

The artist peers detail the histories that motivate their practices and the mentorship that has informed their work.

07/03/2024

“While intervening in public spaces, you can’t fully plan for the reactions or the route.” —Anida Yoeu

The artist discusses their guerrilla style of installation art with Jessica Lanay.

Performance that uses history to create space for others.

07/03/2024

“I am attempting to mimic the feeling of memory.” —Tiffany Sia

With Re’al Christian, the writer dissects the meaning of imagery in her writing while discussing her new book, “On and Off-screen Imaginaries.”

Image and text projects that create speculative planes of memory.

07/02/2024

“She thinks the word lover is a puny, stupid word.”

In “Rendezvous,” a new short story by Lidia Yuknavitch, the bestselling author of “Thrust” writes of the “kind of humiliation that jettisons a person from the planet of their own body.”

The latest story from Lidia Yuknavitch, bestselling author of Thrust , is one of aging, desire, and the “kind of humiliation that jettisons a person from the planet of their own body.”

07/02/2024

“I tell people, you need a village. It’s absolutely true—collaboration; you can’t do it by yourself.”

For BOMB’s , Cynthia Hawkins discusses her early arts education in the ’70s and her discovery of geometric abstraction.

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

07/02/2024

“That’s what I would tell any young writer who is seeking this journey. There is no transformation. There’s only you.” —Julian Tepper

“Cooler Heads,” the writer’s latest novel, explores artistic boundaries and the concept of the “cursed corner.”

A novel about artistic boundaries and trying to make it in New York City.

07/02/2024

BOMB’s quarterly roundup of fellowships, residencies, and prizes has been updated for the Summer 2024 season. Browse the list to find funding for your next project!

https://bombmagazine.org/discover/fellowships-residencies/

07/02/2024

“We are all bad planets circling the pictured worlds that we behold.” —Srikanth Reddy

In “The Unsignificant,” the poet investigates the meaning and implications of the background through Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.”

Studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s infamous landscape painting in which Icarus’s “little splash off the coast” slips to the side, the poet considers the magnetic pull of the background detail.

07/01/2024

Small Press Flea (SPF) is back—and at a new location! Join us at Amant’s campus for BOMB’s fifth annual fair featuring your favorite local publishers and magazines. Rain or shine, unless it’s pouring, 10AM–4PM. We’ll see you there!

https://bombmagazine.org/events/small-press-flea-2024/

07/01/2024

“Here are our mentors: the grandmother, the father, our families.” —Iván Argote

For BOMB’s new series, Narratives of Influence, visual artists Iván Argote and Roméo Mivekanni detail the histories and mentorship that motivate their practices.

The artist peers detail the histories that motivate their practices and the mentorship that has informed their work.

07/01/2024

“I find the in-between space [of diaspora] powerful to work in; it’s a privilege to be able to do that.” —Anida Yoeu Ali

As the Red Chador and the Buddhist Bug, the performance artist challenges empathy by interrupting comfort in public spaces.

Performance that uses history to create space for others.

06/30/2024

”She thinks the word lover is a puny, stupid word.“

In “Rendezvous,” a new short story by Lidia Yuknavitch, the bestselling author of “Thrust” writes of the “kind of humiliation that jettisons a person from the planet of their own body.”

The latest story from Lidia Yuknavitch, bestselling author of Thrust , is one of aging, desire, and the “kind of humiliation that jettisons a person from the planet of their own body.”