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Walton Ford by Andrés Reséndez - BOMB Magazine
Euphrates, 2020, watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper, 60 × 119.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery. Photo by Tom Powel. This interview is part of Theory + Practice, a series exploring the intersection of culture and social justice, and is made possible, in part, with support from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. The invitation from BOMB Magazine came out of the blue. Their editor Benjamin Samuel wanted me—a garden-variety historian—to interview the painter Walton Ford.
I Fall Asleep Watching Home Videos and Dream by Langston Cotman - BOMB Magazine
I am my grandfather, the first man in my family to go to college. A Black boy, fresh from the Navy, filing off a bus in Harvard Square. Mustache trimmed, hair embalmed with lye, fist clenched around a promise. He is going to fight it, this black box he was born in. Every Charles City boy chanting “Chicken Leg Cotman.” A mob of coal eyes chasing him down the sidewalk-chalked, cotton-pocked streets of his past. In biology class he learns to sit up straight and nod like an oil well.
Mary Lovelace O’Neal by Suzanne Jackson - BOMB Magazine
Grave Robbers 4, circa 1998, mixed media on canvas, 84 × 60 inches. Images courtesy of the artist and Mnuchin Gallery, New York. September 28, 2020 Dear Mary, Today, on my good computer, I was able to see the exhibition of your gorgeous paintings at Mnuchin Gallery from last winter. Somehow, even though the terminology of abstraction and expressionism and minimalism gets put on our work, we choose to describe our paintings relative to our independent process and the subsequent result for each work.
Three Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell - BOMB Magazine
Boyfriend #19 / The White Boy with Dreadlocks There are periods of my life that roll through me hazily. Not like an apparition, more like that moment a cartoon villain gets hit in the head with, say, an anvil or whatever, and all he sees is stars—my life was all flashbacks that never materialized. I woke up to a spider crawling on the floor and I was reminded of this white boy I dated a while ago with these long-ass dreadlocks.
BOMB Magazine | Danielle Evans
Jamel Brinkley Hey, Danielle. Danielle Evans Hello! Where are you these days? JB I’m in Oakland—moving soon, but still in Oakland. Where are you? DE I’m in Baltimore. JB What’s your routine been—if you have one—during quarantine? DE I was supposed to be writing and wrapping up the copy edits on The Office of Historical Corrections. Starting in March, my plan was to hibernate in my apartment for a few months—which turned into everybody’s plan.
Sundown at the Eternal Staircase by GennaRose Nethercott - BOMB Magazine
Do not enter the Eternal Staircase after 8 PM. No outside food or drink is permitted within the Eternal Staircase. Black-soled sneakers, high-heeled shoes, and flip-flops are prohibited inside the Eternal Staircase. No dogs. (Yes, we used to allow dogs. Too many dogs shit in the Eternal Staircase.) If you feel lightheaded within the Eternal Staircase, alert a staff member immediately.
Four Poems by Imani Elizabeth Jackson - BOMB Magazine
Jan 19, 2021 Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet from Chicago. Her writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from Triple Canopy, Apogee, the Arkansas International, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. She’s authored the chapbook saltsitting (rereleased by g l o s s, 2020), Consider the Tongue (with S*an D. Henry-Smith), and her first book, Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem. She lives in Providence now, where she’s an MFA candidate at Brown.
Two Poems by Rae Armantrout - BOMB Magazine
Feb 18, 2021 FASHION People are talking about new hot spots, viral loads, murder hornets, cryptocurrencies. People are talking about learning new hobbies, trying to unlearn object permanence. * A girl’s lugging a toy ambulance almost too large for her to lift— siren ignored in the distance. * Clothed in torn cloud scraps, all innocence, dressed in dustups, agitated snippets. Bonsai dissonance— what we used to call ironic.
Chess by Michael DeForge - BOMB Magazine
Feb 16, 2021 Michael DeForge lives in Toronto, Ontario. His comics and illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, the New York Times, the Believer, and elsewhere. He worked as a designer on Adventure Time for six seasons. His published books include Ant Colony, A Western World, Stunt, and Familiar Face (Drawn & Quarterly, 2020).
Guadalupe Maravilla by Janine Antoni - BOMB Magazine
Installation view of Disease Thrower at the Institute for Contemporary Art, VCU, Richmond, Virginia, 2019–20. Images courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York. Sculptor, performer, and sound healer Guadalupe Maravilla fled the civil war in El Salvador as a child, arriving in the United States after an arduous journey on land.
BOMB Magazine | Cookbooklets
In his introduction to BOMB’s oral history with Dindga McCannon, Philip Glahn writes, “McCannon’s practice spans several decades and struggles—some more personal, others more public, all of them equally political—as well as a multiplicity of materials and methods, all born of specific forms of necessity and utility.” McCannon and her housemate, the chef LeonRaymond Mitchell, encouraged by their dinner guests, self-published a cookbook of the recipes they serve to friends at their home.
The Ross Brothers by RaMell Ross - BOMB Magazine
Film still from Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 2020, digital film, 98 minutes. I’ve had a chronic suspicion that the United States, in particular, is best understood through the lens. Behind, reflected in, and in front of moving and still cameras, America is naked and lucid in proportion to the good-faith education and criticality of the viewer. The films of Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross seem built with this in mind.
BOMB Magazine | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Dec 17, 2020 There have been plenty of things to cry about in 2020, but I never thought a ten-page conversation between an ice cube and an ice cube tray would be one of them. And yet there I was, tears blurring my vision as I read Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s latest book, The Freezer Door (2020). “Tell me you love me, says the ice cube.
Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre’s Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979 by Ted Dodson - BOMB Magazine
Lenora de Barros, Poema, 1979. From Women in Concrete Poetry. Courtesy of Primary Information. (Primary Information, 2020) Poema (1979) by Lenora de Barros is the de facto alternate title for Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979.
Black Unity Trio’s Al-Fatihah by Matthew Rivera - BOMB Magazine
(Gotta Groove Records, 2020) Reissued for the first time after fifty years, the Black Unity Trio’s rare and explosive free jazz album Al-Fatihah still resonates with the sounds of solidarity amid a scene of intense political struggle. From the basement of Cleveland’s Cosmic Music, drummer Hasan Shahid, alto saxophonist Yusuf Mumin, and cellist Abdul Wadud rehearsed four hours a day for six months, hashing out a musical response to the uprisings around them.
The City Seen for the First Time
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