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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Andrea Zittel utilizes design, not simply as an aesthetic, but as a tool with larger-than-life goals that merge fantasy, biology, and the built world to produce such projects as curvilinear “escape vehicles” and strangely utopian “pocket properties.”
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Michael Goldberg came of age as a painter just as New York came into its own as an art center. Saul Ostrow queries the artist on the mavericks—O’Hara, de Kooning, and Pollock—and his role as an artist who’s been creating vital work for 50 years.
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An explorer who braved the Peruvian wilds and recorded his experiences in Keep the River on Your Right, and lived with the headhunters of Papua New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum answers the big questions on life and death from Allan Gurganus.
>>>Eduardo Galeano, recipient of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, is one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers, journalists and historians. Jaime Manrique speaks with the legendary maestro of letters about utopian spirit in the global age.
>>>Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s new film, Kippur, explores the realities of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Having been a soldier in the war himself, Gitai says he is not making a political statement; rather, he has cinematically composed the chaos of war.
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Award-winning filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, best known for Chungking Express, has a new film, In the Mood for Love, which won two awards at Cannes: Best Actor for Tony Leung and the Grand Prix de la Technique for its art direction.
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Wendy Wasserstein has revolutionized contemporary American theater through her complex explorations of the lives of women; for The Heidi Chronicles she was the first female playwright to receive a Tony Award, and since then has become a legend.
>>>Architect Samuel Mockbee and his Rural Studio have been designing radically inventive homes, community centers and churches for the poor out of the most unlikely materials: card-board boxes, hay, old car windows and bundles of used clothes.
>>>George Negroponte writes about the sculptures of Matthew Bliss in the Twentieth Anniversary issue of BOMB.
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