BOMB Magazine

07/08/2025

Small Press Flea is back! Happening at .arts, SPF is a summer market that supports the press community and independent publishers. This year’s SPF promises to provide your end-of-summer reading, workshops, and food vendors. The day ends with a night market featuring cocktails and a DJ.

Rain or shine, unless it’s pouring, 1 PM–9 PM. Enter at 316 Ten Eyck St.

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07/07/2025

“My artistic work and interests inform my curatorial vision and bring a personal perspective to the shows I create.” —Jorge Rojas

Artist Suzanne Sbarge interviewed visual and performance artist Jorge Rojas whose work concerns traversing borders.

Linking ideas across cultures and borders.

07/03/2025

“When thinking is freed from its attachment to either intention or objects, it runs like a river.” —Iva Gueorguieva

Painter Dona Nelson interviewed visual artist Iva Gueorguieva. The two discuss the role of movement in Gueorguieva’s creative process.

Mark-making as the practice of touch.

06/30/2025

“Language breaks down into rhythm, and meaning recirculates throughout the universe… darío remains with us, surely, in these cycles and patterns of life.” —Emerson Goo

Writer Emerson Goo reviewed the late poet bruno darío’s LANTANA (Ugly Duckling Presse)

This posthumously published book about what it means to love after death showcases the playful, intoxicating language of the “singular and…

06/30/2025

“Artists can best contribute to society by reflecting on what most concerns them and what they enjoy giving to the public.” —Nanette Carter

Writer Matthew Deleget interviewed artist Nanette Carter about her retrospective at Montclair Art Museum.

Finding the tools and materials.

06/24/2025

“That’s what I’m most interested in: this sense of being trapped in a loop, unable to truly exist outside it.”

Writer Qianfan Gu interviewed visual artist Huidi Xiang whose work concerns the relationship between labor and play.

Exploring the relationship between play and labor.

06/18/2025

“I do think to myself: What can only I make that nobody else can make?” —Amanda Williams

Visual artist and architect Amanda Williams discussed creating space with artist Lauren Halsey as part of our Oral History Project.

Amanda Williams, a visual artist and trained architect, discusses the ability to formulate architecture whose potential is both real and imagined in this…

06/16/2025

“With my music, I’ve always wanted it to be like me, to sound how I think, and to reflect the conversation.” —McKinley Dixon

Friends and fellow musicians Lucy Dacus and McKinley Dixon reflect on the heart of their music and the artist’s motives.

The musicians and longtime friends reflect on how the Richmond, Virginia, independent and DIY scene propelled them to their latest albums, Forever Is a…

06/13/2025

“Subconscious biases of audiences and institutions really play a part in what can and cannot be realized by Black people on stage.” —Nazareth Hassan

Writer Marissa Joyce Stamps interviews playwright Nazareth Hassan on minstrelsy and releasing shame.

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

06/11/2025

Friends and fellow artists Margaux Ogden and Devin Troy Strother discuss the humor and imagery in Strother’s recent work.

“I want to overload the viewer because that is what I want from shows—an abundance of stuff.” —Devin Troy Strother

Presenting all the information at once.

06/10/2025

“He was on fire, writing like his death depended on it.” —Tom Comitta

The devil works hard in this excerpt from Tom Comitta’s satirical novel, PEOPLE’S CHOICE LITERATURE (Columbia University Press).

From People's Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels, a devil's guide to creative failure.