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| Editors | Betsy Sussler, Benjamin Samuel, Tyler Considine, Juwon Jun, Janée A. Moses |
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| Categories | Arts magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 14,000 |
| First issue | Spring 1981 |
| Company | New Arts Publications, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | bombmagazine |
| ISSN | 0743-3204 |
Bomb (stylized in all caps asBOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online. It is composed primarily of interviews between creative people working in a variety of disciplines—visual art, literature, film, music, theater, architecture, and dance. In addition to interviews,Bomb publishes reviews of literature, film, and music, as well as new poetry and fiction.Bomb is published by New Art Publications, Inc., a501(c)(3)non-profit organization.[1]
Bomb was launched in 1981[2] by a group of New York City-based artists, including Betsy Sussler,Sarah Charlesworth,Glenn O'Brien, Michael McClard, andLiza Béar, who sought to record and promote public conversations between artists without mediation by critics or journalists.[3]
The nameBomb is a reference to bothWyndham Lewis'Blast and the fact that the magazine's original editors expected the publication to "bomb" after one or two issues.[3] Shortly after its founding,Bomb formed a501(c)(3) non-profit organization, New Art Publications, Inc., which publishes the journal.
In 2005, theBomb offices moved from theSoHo neighborhood ofNew York City,New York, toFort Greene, Brooklyn.[citation needed] By December 2019,Bomb had published one hundred fifty issues.[4]
In 2004,Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquiredBomb's archives, including twenty-four years' worth of audio recordings, raw and edited interview transcripts, manuscripts, galleys, and assorted ephemera.[7]
Since 2014,Bomb's Oral History Project has staged one-on-one interviews with New York City-based visual artists of the African descent, conducted by curators, scholars, and cultural producers.
The Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, developing, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora. The Oral History Project has organized interviews including:Wangechi Mutu byDeborah Willis,Kara Walker & Larry Walker,Edward Clark byJack Whitten, Adger Cowans byCarrie Mae Weems, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe by Kalia Brooks,Melvin Edwards byMichael Brenson,Terry Adkins by Calvin Reid,Stanley Whitney by Alteronce Gumby, Gerald Jackson by Stanley Whitney, Eldzier Cortor by Terry Carbone, Peter Bradley by Steve Cannon, Quincy Troupe & Cannon Hersey, James Little by LeRonn P. Brooks, William T. Williams by Mona Hadler,Maren Hassinger byLowery Stokes Sims,Linda Goode Bryant byRujeko Hockley, Janet Olivia Henry andSana Musasama by Stephanie E. Goodalle.[8]
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