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Issue 106 Winter 2009
Web Exclusive! Josephine Meckseper’s sparkling display cases combine vintage consumables with references to protest movements. Her work is currently on view at MoMA in New York.
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A prolific Argentine novelist with a cult following and over 60 published books under his belt, Aira rarely grants interviews. María Moreno presents a privileged glimpse of the writer.
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Cuban born Guillermo Cabrera Infante is one of Latin America’s most respected and celebrated writers. His books, brimming with wit and word play, are also moving political analyses of life in Cuba.
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En Español El arquitecto chileno, de origen croata, habla con José Castillo sobre la precariedad de sus materiales, la relación de sus proyectos con el arte y la literatura, y los beneficios de mantener la perspectiva de inmigrante.
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Watch a BOMBLive! Author Jonathan Lethem on Superman, Lewis Hyde & open source culture. Co-produced by Cleveland Institute of Art.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Rhys Chatham, legendary composer and performer, talks about the downtown music scene with guitarist Alan Licht.
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Outtake! This is the continuation of the conversation between Adrián Dárgelos and Laureana Toledo which appears in issue 106.
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The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. The Academy Award winner on how acting has helped him perfect his other love— directing for the theater. Just opening: Little Flower of East Orange at LAByrinth Theater Company.
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Filmmakers Kelly Reichardt and Gus Van Sant on Reichardt’s new film, Wendy and Lucy, Oregon, decay, and making a feature film with $20,000.
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Mary Heilmann’s life’s work has stretched across two coasts and three generations, from Berkeley’s hippies to New York’s ‘70s bohemia to the yuppified ‘90s. Her retrospective is on view from October 22 to January 26 at the New Museum in NYC.
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Tom Noonan plays both sides: he appeared in the mega-expensive Last Action Hero, yet made his feature film What Happened Was, with his own money. Here he discusses the freedom granted by restraints.
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Abby Goldstein details Pipilotti Rist’s strange life-size replica of a suburban home where “something is not quite right.” Rist’s surreal worldview is on display at MoMA, featuring 25-foot-high projections in the museum’s atrium.
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WEB EXTRA! Watch John Giorno’s video performance Everyone Gets Lighter from the poetry film Nine Poems in Basilicata! Read Giorno’s interview with Marcus Boon.
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