Category Archives: From The Archive

Between the Lines

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Beneath the dense network of tags and links, there is a particular order at the root of the BOMB archive…

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Literature Takeover at BOMBsite

Ann Lauterbach. Photo by Eve Thoreau.
With the National Book Awards ceremony approaching this Wednesday, we’ve filled our homepage with nominees and winners of the prestigious awards throughout the decades. Head over to our site for interviews with Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Franzen, and a brand new Web Exclusive interview with 2009 National Book Award for Poetry nominee Ann Lauterbach.

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Streetwise

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Bringing new meaning to “pop-up,” the archive takes to the streets…

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The Intraview

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Over the years, BOMB magazine has amassed hundreds of interviews between artists. If you read closely, the interviews begin to speak to themselves. Some of them are related by topic, medium, genre, or social network. When the articles themselves begin relating to their interiority, they collectively build an intraview, a reflexive look. Following is a hyper-linked collage to the latest archived interviews presented as a mock-up of the intraview.

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Corpse Exquise II

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Just six weeks left to go on the archive’s timeBOMB! Check out another hyperlinked collage and find out the latest past interviews we’ve posted!

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The Invisible Issue

Binding of BOMB #68, Summer 1999.  Cut, 2009.

It’s week seven on the TimeBOMB countdown, but we may just have all the interviews archived a bit sooner than expected. But for now, let’s look back to Winter 1998 and BOMB’s switch from saddle stitch, to perfect binding. After 11 years with perfect, we’re back in the saddle now.

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Week 8: Capturing Flux


A corner of Hedda Sterne's studio, photographed in 1970 by Duane Michals. Courtesy of the artist. We’ve got eight weeks to go until all our interviews are archived…Whether be it a poet writing a novel in three nights, men painted blue making music with Cap’n Crunch cereal, or a painter using the floor as her canvas, something unites the artists in BOMB’s interviews. Plucking through the archives over the past few weeks, it seems that several artists allude to a similar phenomenon in their work: an acknowledgement of the unknown.

The Labyrinth

Lawrence Gipe, Panel No. 1 from The Robert Moses Project (An Idealist in Action), 1993, oil on panel, 60x 42". Photograph courtesy Blum Helman. In week 9 of our TimeBOMB countdown, Ries Murphy treats us to quotes from interviews with Dennis Cooper, David Seidner, and Jodi Long.

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Abstracts

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Hear that? It’s the TimeBOMB ticking! We have 10 weeks left until we finish archiving our collection of over 800 interviews for your retro-pleasure. So—quick! trace the hand of Barbara Hammer, Isabel Toledo’s scarf, Srivnas Krishna’s coiffure, a Segovian mountain range, and more back through the Archive!

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Outside In

Angelica Huston, Prizzi’s Honor, © 1985 ABC Morion Pictures, Inc. This week, From the Archive explores the exterior influences our interviewees have wrestled with—pressures that come at their artistic creations quietly from the side, and also those that come head-on.

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Transformers

Auburn Rural Studio, Harris House “Butterfly,” designed and built by second-year students. All image courtesy of Timothey Hursley. (Samuel Mockbee by Judy Hudson, BOMB 75).
This week’s new round of archive interviews focuses on the boundaries of form and moments where style and politics run up against those boundaries.

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Cross-pollination

Image courtesy: Georgia MarshDuring my first weeks of wading through the archive I was dizzy trying to make sense of all the information I was ingesting.

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Corpse Exquise

corpse Every week, Lena and I review the progress on the archive project. We tally up the articles that have been through multiple proofs and end up in the “ready-to-go” folder on the database. This assortment is usually a motley crew of articles that we have reached for out of relevance, “still-hotness,” or taste…(I usually make a dive for the ‘80s visual artists!) though all shall and will be archived.

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Exorcist

Christian Marclay, still from Telephones, 1995, video projection with sound, 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. You thought Kathy Acker was wild? Well, we’ve got more crazy-smart ladies for you in this round of From the Archive.

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