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BOMB Magazine has been publishing in-depth interviews between artists about the creative process since 1981. BOMB began as a late night conversation among a group of friends— writers, directors, and artists— when someone said, "Wouldn't it be great if we started a magazine where we could speak about our work the way we speak about it amongst ourselves?" One year and many conversations later, the first issue of BOMB went to press on a $3,000 loan.
BOMB has since grown into a national magazine with over 70 professional artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians serving on our editorial board. Twenty years later BOMB's mission remains intact: To promote an understanding and appreciation of the arts through conversations about the arts, by the people who make the arts. Focusing on ideas rather than personalities, BOMB interviews delve into discussions of process and aesthetics, allowing for the emergence of complex and varied positions on artmaking and life. These interviews are primary documents of American cultural history.
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BOMB's online Archive Project was initiated with funding from National Endowment for the Arts Heritage and Preservation and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. |
Here are just a few of the over 600 in-depth interviews we've published on art, literature, theatre, film, and music during the past 20 years. Eventually we hope to mount them all on this site. The six interviews linked here have been chosen to inaugurate this exciting project.
ART:
Eric Fischl by A.M. Homes, Winter 1994
Carroll Dunham by Betsy Sussler, Winter 1990
Terry Winters by Bob Holman, Spring 1992
Richard Serra by David Seidner, Winter 1993
Mona Hatoum by Janine Antoni, Spring 1998
Yayoi Kusama by Grady Turner, Winter 1999
Frank Stella by Saul Ostrow, Spring 2000
Donald Baechler by David Kapp, Summer 2000
Andrea Zittel by Stefano Basilico, Spring 2001THEATER:
Richard Foreman by Eric Bogosian, Spring 1994
Wallace Shawn by Patrick McGrath, Spring 1997
Roger Guenveur Smith
by Coco Fusco, Summer 1997
Paula Vogel by Mary-Louise Parker, Fall 1997
Victor Garber and Alfred Molina
Peggy Shaw by Craig Lucas, Fall 1999
Gary Sinise by Scott Elliott, Winter 1999
Marsha Norman by April Gornik, Spring 2000LITERATURE:
Kazuo Ishiguro by Graham Swift, Fall 1989
Jeanette Winterson by Catherine Bush, Spring 1993
John Edgar Wideman by Caryl Phillips, Fall 1994
Tobias Wolff by A.M. Homes, Fall 1996
Sharon Olds by Amy Hempel, Winter 1996
Lydia Davis by Francine Prose, Summer 1997
Allan Gurganus by Donald Antrim, Fall 1997
Michael Ondaatje by Willem Dafoe, Winter 1997
Madison Smartt Bell by Jack Stephens, Fall 2000MUSIC:
Vernon Reid by Tracie Morris, Spring 1993
Tom Zé by David Byrne and Arto Lindsay,
James Carter by Zoë Anglesey, Winter 1994
Emmylou Harris by Lucinda Williams, Spring 1997
Steve Earle by David Gates, Spring 1998
Chuck D by David Thorpe, Summer 1999
Laurie Anderson by Clifford Ross, Fall 1999
Marc Ribot by David Krasnow, Winter 1999
Arto Lindsay by David Krasnow, Spring 2000
¡Cubanismo! with Ned Sublette, Winter 2001
BOMB is published by New Art Publications and is a not-for-profit corporation with a 501(c)3. If you would like to sponsor an interview or a series of interviews for our Archive Project, which benefits scholars, students, and readers alike, please email betsy@bombsite.com
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