BOMB

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB's founders—New York City-based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it.

Today, BOMB is a multi-media publishing house that creates, disseminates, and preserves artist-generated content from interviews to artists' essays to new literature. BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward.

BOMB Magazine is a print quarterly publishing in-depth interviews between artists alongside artists' essays, literature, and portfolios. Subscribe today.

The BOMB website publishes exchanges on artistic practice including interviews, literature, portfolios, and essays.

The BOMB Archive is a fully searchable and relational online library that provides access to the ongoing history of dialogue generated by BOMB since 1981. With funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, BOMB has made all of its content—over 7,500 primary cultural documents from the past 37 years—available for free.

The Oral History Project is a series of interviews that collects, documents, and preserves the life stories of New York City-based visual artists of the African Diaspora. (2023)

Founding editor: Betsy Sussler.

Books

• Speak Art! The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Artists, eds. Betsy Sussler with Suzan Sherman and Ronalde Shavers, G+B Arts International, 1997, xi+240 pp, IA. Brice Marden - Coco Fusco & Guillermo Gomez-Peçna - Robert Gober - Richard Serra - Sue Williams - Philip Taaffe - Kiki Smith - Lawrence Weiner - Vito Acconci - Andres Serrano - George Condo - Ross Bleckner, ...

• Speak Fiction and Poetry! The Best of BOMB Magazine's Interviews with Writers, eds. Betsy Sussler with Suzan Sherman and Ronalde Shavers, G+B Arts International, 1998, xvi+282 pp, IA. Michael Ondaatje / Willem Dafoe -- John Edgar Wideman / Caryl Phillips -- Lucie Brock-Broido / Carole Maso -- Padgett Powell / Victoria Hunt -- Russell Banks / Pinckney Benedict -- Walter Mosley / Thulani Davis -- Jeanette Winterson / Catherine Bush -- Sheila Bosworth / Guy Gallo -- James Merrill / Thomas Bolt -- bell hooks / Lawrence Chua -- Francine Prose / Deborah Eisenberg -- Peter Carey / Robert Polito -- Paul Auster / Joseph Mallia -- Luisa Valenzuela / Linda Yablonsky -- Suzannah Lessard and Honor Moore / Betsy Sussler -- Tobias Wolff / A.M. Homes -- Caryl Phillips / Graham Swift -- Bradford Morrow / Jim Lewis -- Edmund White - Alain Kirili -- Sapphire / Kelvin Christopher James -- Frederic Tuten / Bruce Wolmer -- Melanie Rae Thon / Caryl Phillips -- Ariel Dorfman / Jenifer Berman -- Graham Swift / Patrick McGrath.

• BOMB: The Author Interviews, ed. Betsy Sussler, New York: Soho Press, 2014, xi+460 pp, IA.

Links

• Website
• Issues
• BOMB, Vol. 1, No. 1, ed. Betsy Sussler, New York, April 1981, 50 pp, HTML.
• Wikipedia