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This month marks the ten-year anniversary of BOMB’s Oral History Project (OHP), an editorial series dedicated to archiving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora. Learn more about the project at the link below. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Some say, Your mother tongue is your home. I don’t feel I have one or belong to any. My experience is always one of being in-between.” —Ho Tzu Nyen The artist challenges our sense of reality and time in his new exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
Starting next Monday, BOMB will open for submissions! Send us your fiction, essays, or graphic narratives (try to submit as soon as you can, as we are accepting submissions through Dec 1 or until we reach our limit of 500 applicants.
“My work is about community: queer community, people in diaspora.” —Kang Seung Lee The artist explores death and memory in his works featured in the Venice Biennale (@la_Biennale). bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“In teaching, there’s this ability sometimes to identify something in someone that they may not see in themselves.” —Randy Williams In this installment of the Oral History Project, Williams recounts how he became an educator and artist. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“I don’t think making art to get to wellness is the goal.” —Funto Omojola The poet explores illness and ancestral connections in their debut collection, “If I Gather Here and Shout” (@nightboatbooks). bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Most of my work is documentary in that I am documenting a performance I have arranged for the camera.” —Joanna Piotrowska The photographer plays with staging as an act of control in her exhibition, “unseeing eyes, restless bodies” at @ICAPhiladelphia bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
Massinissa Selmani’s drawings reveal “a sort of Barzakh, a barrier or a gateway between the real and Selmani’s reimagination of it,” as Myriam Amroun writes. View them in our Fall issue. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Bertrand’s kept the AC turned so high it was like entering another world. Older boys came to gawk at the hard nipples; Max came to breathe in the cold.” Read a story from Marguerite Sheffer’s new collection “The Man in the Banana Trees” (@UIowaPress). bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“We can’t be accurate about the here and now [...] without some sense that the present is essentially the most recent iteration of the past.” —Joseph O’Neill O’Neill reckons with the workday politics of late-capitalist American suburbia in his new novel. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Ancestral Whispers (2024) is an altar; it is an honoring.” —Adama Delphine Fawundu The artist honors the memory of the Black people enslaved by the Lefferts family with a textile installation at the Lefferts Historic House in Brooklyn. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“You have to be confident on a set, no matter how small the set is.” —Harley Chamandy @harley_chamandy joins writer @addis_goldman to discuss the process of creating his debut feature, “Allen Sunshine.” bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“The question of style isn’t just about sentence construction.” —Joseph O’Neill The author’s latest book, “Godwin” (@PantheonBooks), explores Western masculinity. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
Join us tonight at 7PM for our Fall Conversation & Reading in partnership with NYU! Don't miss readings from BOMB Fall issue contributors @GarthGreenwell, @Rumaan, and Angie Sijun Lou. eventbrite.com/e/fall-convers…
“The United States loves its freedom, but it’s a freedom that you will fight tooth and nail for, and it’s a freedom to choose between binaries.” —Cannupa Hanska Luger Luger's latest work, “Attrition,” emphasizes our nation’s imperial past and present. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Will we continue to collectively live in disorder and non-rhythmic, hierarchical violence?” —Adama Delphine Fawundu The artist acknowledges the ancestral history of the Historic Lefferts House in Brooklyn, where 25 Black people were once enslaved. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“I wanted to explore time on multiple scales—from historical movements to personal geological epochs.” —Zach Williams The author discusses the decades-long process of writing his debut collection, “Beautiful Days” (@doubledaybooks).
“Max envied them their true north, their gulfstream current, their thick glass.” A young dreamer helps trapped winter spirits return home in @mlensheffer’s short story, “Midnight Revolt at Bertrand's Year-Round Christmas Store” (@UIowaPress). bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Muslims do not clothe the dead. We bury them nude / wrapped in white like righting a broken bone.” From “ART OF WAR” by Rashed Aqrabawi, winner of BOMB’s 2024 Poetry Contest. Read his three winning pieces in our Fall issue. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
“Every human-made law is proof that we have failed taking care of one another.” —Cannupa Hanska Luger The sculptor’s exhibition at NYC’s City Hall Park, “Attrition,” grapples with the country’s violent history of displacing indigenous peoples. bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/…
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