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01/28/2025

Our Winter roundup of fellowships, residencies and grants is here. We have included, as always, the financials, the entry fee, and the letters of recommendation required.

12/16/2024

Our Winter 2025 Issue hits newsstands today! The artists and writers featured draw from their communities and environments to create alternative histories and new possibilities. Subscribe to read the full issue today.

Torkwase Dyson traces the line between Black self-liberators and abstraction. Payal Kapadia discusses making her new film, All We Imagine as Light ,…

12/12/2024

“My cityscapes and interiors are portraits to me and contain the same desire to expose a sense of interiority as my portraits of people.” —Alannah Ferrell

The artist depicts queerness and the daily grind of city life in their latest show, “Erect.”

Transformation and the daily grind.

12/11/2024

"The US is such a beautifully diseased monster. To me, this country is defined by its polar opposites: its beautiful fantasies and its gruesome atrocities." —Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado

The sculptor speaks to anarchic survival.

12/10/2024

We are excited to share our holiday gift guide that rounds up the small and independent presses we featured in BOMB throughout 2024. Learn more about these books and where you can buy them!

A gift for all of the idiosyncratic readers in your life from the small and independent presses we featured in 2024.

12/10/2024

Celebrating today's release of Brandon Shimoda's "The Afterlife is Letting Go," we revisit four poems from our Fall 2024 Issue which accompany the themes in his new book of essays.

“There are no paranormal phenomena / in the universe / of a concentration camp”

12/09/2024

This holiday season Aperture and BOMB are offering a subscription bundle to bring you the best of photography and artist interviews. Available exclusively through Dec. 23, subscribe now to save 20% on a full year of both magazines!

12/08/2024

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa prompts the viewer to observe and be observed in his exhibition at Eastman Museum, “Scene at Eastman,” on view until April 20, 2025. Revisit the photographer’s essay from our Fall 2022 issue.

The photographer and writer reflects on the fugitivity of shadows and whether "photography is inescapably entangled in an optics of supremacy."

12/07/2024

A reminder to RSVP to BOMB's OHP event on Dec. 22 at Other Plans in New Orleans! Don’t miss a free, intimate conversation with New Orleans artists Willie Birch, Katrina Andry, and poet Brenda Marie Osbrey.

BOMB’s Oral History Project joins Other Plans Gallery to present an intimate conversation with three New Orleans artists.

12/06/2024

“I believe in the power of film to meaningfully impact those who feel unseen, unheard, and seek equal status and representation.” —Vanessa Hope

The filmmaker follows Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, in her documentary “Invisible Nation.”

A new documentary examines democracy and imperialism as it follows the first female president of Taiwan.

12/05/2024

“Mundanity can be rendered well anywhere if the poet has a keen enough interest in the place.” —Stella Corso

Corso and Lindsay Turner discuss their sophomore poetry collections and how lived experiences affect one’s approach to form.

Poems that engage with the detritus and the sublime.

12/04/2024

“I think an artist is like a sponge, working from an ever-evolving inner landscape shaped by experiences and influences from the external world.” —Linnéa Gad

The oceanic and extraterrestrial take center stage in Gad's “Return of the Mollusk” exhibition at Astor Weeks.

Art that accumulates layers over time.

12/03/2024

Join BOMB's OHP and Other Plans Gallery on Dec. 22 for a free, intimate conversation with three New Orleans artists - Willie Birch, Katrina Andry, and poet Brenda Marie Osbrey. Complimentary wine will be served.

RSVP required - register below!

BOMB’s Oral History Project joins Other Plans Gallery to present an intimate conversation with three New Orleans artists.

12/02/2024

BOMB’s Winter 2025 issue is already on its way to subscribers and newsstands.

Don’t miss out—subscribe to BOMB today!

12/02/2024

“One upside about getting older is that the ego drive seems a little less relentless.” —Alec Soth

The photographer confronts his own mortality and neuroticism in his latest book, “Advice for Young Artists” (Mack).

Raw portraits of “advice.”

12/01/2024

“Like an altar, each poem has an offering, building and rebuilding while honoring the past.” —Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

Poetry is a form of portraiture and memory-keeping in Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collections.

Altars made of poems: on memory, machismo, and code-switching through crown sonnets.

11/30/2024

“Even when using a camera to capture reality, the image is still a kind of distortion.” —Ho Tzu Nyen

Nyen’s Hessel Museum of Art exhibition, “Time and the Tiger,” is an exploration of spectatorship.

Making worlds resonate.

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In BOMB’s Fall 2024 issue, Dionne Brand digs through “the detritus of coloniality,” Char Jeré finds specificity in Afro-fractalism, and Jennie C. Jones discusses her preoccupation with narratives of American modernism. Take a look inside the issue: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/09/03/bomb-169-fall-2024-announcement/

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With our OHP Study Guides, you can continue your education by digging deep into the lives of seven artists and investigating art’s relationship with identity, place, community, and communication. https://bombmagazine.org/ohp-study-guides

With our Oral History Project Study Guides, you can dig deep into the lives of seven artists with interactive prompts and exercises designed to connect art with everyday life. Download them for free: https://bombmagazine.org/ohp-study-guides

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With our new OHP Study Guides, you’ll have the opportunity to dig deep into seven oral histories with prompts and exercises that connect art to everyday life. https://bombmagazine.org/ohp-study-guides

This weekend, dig into seven oral history features using our newly launched Study Guides—a free educational resourced designed to deepen your engagement with the Oral History Project. https://bombmagazine.org/ohp-study-guides

BOMB is excited to announce the launch of our Oral History Project Study Guides, a free educational resource designed to deepen your engagement with oral histories by McArthur Binion, Willie Birch, Claude Lawrence, Nyeema Morgan, eliza myrie, and Folayemi Wilson. There are four Study Guides, each exploring a specific theme: Identity, place, community, and communication. Each Study Guide includes prompts to encourage readers to discuss and reflect on themes and ideas found in the oral histories. They can be used by educators, students, cultural organizations, or individual art enthusiasts to dive deeper into the lives of these seven artists. To learn more and begin exploring the Study Guides, visit https://bombmagazine.org/ohp-study-guides.

Take a look inside BOMB‘s Summer 2024 issue, featuring interviews with Jeffrey Gibson, Marco Fusinato, Roméo Mivekannin, Amanda Williams, and more. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/06/03/bomb-168-summer-2024-announcement/