The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

BOMB

Institution
BOMB/New Art Publications, Inc.
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Grant Cycle
Spring 2023
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
bombmagazine.org ↗
Mary Lum, temporary arrangement of ceramic letter fragments from the artist’s collection, 2023. Dimensions variable. Photo by Julia Featheringill. Courtesy of the artist and Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Katrina Andry, None Worthier Than Thou in the Eyes of a Broken Man, 2019. Color reduction woodcut, 64 × 44 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.
1. Bill Gaskins, Tamara and Tireka, Easter Sunday, Baltimore, Maryland, 1994. Black-and-white photograph (published in Good and Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins, 1997). Images courtesy of the artist

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City artists and writers—decided to publish dialogues that reflected the way practitioners spoke about their work among themselves. Today, BOMB is a nonprofit, multi-platform 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.

Through BOMB’s free and searchable online archive—a virtual hub where a diverse cohort of artists and writers explore the creative process within a community of their peers and mentors. BOMB’s Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, documenting, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora.

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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant