““I love to be entertained and titillated. I also have a brain and it’s hard to stop thinking and fully enjoy problematic things.” Roxane Gay, BOMB 128”
Victor Ehikhamenor , I am Ogiso, the King from Heaven, 2017. Rosary beads on lace textile. 262 x 177 x 10 cm. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Tyburn Gallery.
There are actually two recordings here, made many months apart and then superimposed on one another. For me, each would qualify as play—as both scenarios only involved turning on a recorder in ...
We visited Nina Chanel Abney’s studio ahead of her two must-see shows at Mary Boone Gallery & Jack Shainman.
“People in power probably assumed that because I was writing about poor black southerners, no one would want to read about them. It feels good to get this kind of recognition now and to know th...
“I would maintain that an individual body cannot be really understood or described if you treat it as bounded by its skin.” - Anthony McCall, BOMB 97
This work by Jonathan Horowitz was produced as a poster for the Jewish Museum exhibition Take Me (I’m Yours) .
Halloween costume challenge: Asger Carlsen’s HESTER. (See more in his portfolio for BOMB .)
Happy halloween! If we could figure out the costume we’d definitely go as Dana Schutz’s Face Eater.
Dianna Frid, NYT. APRIL 24, 2014, RICHARD H. HOGGART, embroidery floss and graphite mounted on canvas.
Sarah Oppenheimer, S-399390, glass, metal, wood, and architecture, dimensions variable.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Something Split and New, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, colored pencil, collage, and transfers on paper. From her conversation in BOMB 137 : “Chinua Achebe says that the...
“If your character is a macho, then let him be as macho as macho can be. Just recognize that if everything in your book is macho and you don’t realize it because that’s how you see the worl...
“I felt a great deal of hesitation and fear, and I assumed that I would never publish anything—it doesn’t make sense to me now, and, at this point, it’s hard to go back into that kind of ...
Choreographer, dancer and writer Okwui Okpokwasili in Bronx Gothic, Danspace Project, New York. From her conversation in BOMB 137 : “The spectacle of brown and black bodies in pain is a deep t...
“It’s really important for the art world to bring in more people, and not just this isolated art crowd. That kills art.” - Jeffrey Vallance
“What expression isn’t a negotiation of some sort?” - Maggie Nelson
“Sometimes you have to look back and say, ‘Fuck, how was I able to make that shit?’” - Felix Gonzalez-Torres
“Identity is incredibly abstract. I mean, our deepest drives are basically unknown to us.” - Sadie Benning, BOMB 135
Exhibit Be—Wall 3 (feat. Fat Kids, Paws, MRSA, Bordeaux, Bmike, Ceaux, Jess, Three, Tdoe, Dappa), spray paint. By Brandan “Bmike” Odums .