Artists in conversation, since 1981. Quarterly in print & every day online. https://bombmagazine.org/https://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3ml7f53i6wb2bFrom the Spring 2026 issue, an Editor’s Choice of Lisa Robertson’s “Riverwork” (@coachhousebooks.bsky.social, 2026) by @nicodemus.bsky.social, where a researcher follows the currents that once captivated her great-aunt: the cultural history of a river that once flowed through Paris. https://bit.ly/4f42Yk606 May 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7f53i6wb2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3ml7dhawl3f2pa.k. payne and Aleshea Harris, interviewed by Ashley M. Thomas, discuss “Furlough’s Paradise” (2026), a play about cousins navigating a three-day prison furlough that brings together a community of Black theatermakers. https://bit.ly/4n8Tx4U06 May 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7dhawl3f2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3ml72aagjs72pFrom our Spring 2026 issue, the Lower East Side Yearbook is an archive of photographs, collages, drawings, and love letters sustained by a neighborhood collective called the Lower East Side Yearbook Committee and started, in part, by photographer and videographer Destiny Mata. https://bit.ly/48Jb0uU06 May 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml72aagjs72phttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3ml4mbspxzs2nHappy pub day to Spring 2026 issue contributor, @dylanlandis.bsky.social, for “List of All Possible Desires” (Soho Press, 2026). Read an excerpt where Rainey Royal attends a dinner party broiling with tension, spousal betrayal, and 1980s aesthetics. https://bit.ly/4wbsJVU05 May 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4mbspxzs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3ml25iqt5gr2bArtist Sandra Mujinga speaks with writer Camille Bacon about using sculpture as a mode of repetition that restructures hope. https://bit.ly/3PfUfRv04 May 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml25iqt5gr2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjx5vwfwjj2nMusician, producer, and author Jeff Tweedy, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of Wilco, is interviewed in our Spring 2026 issue by writer @tomcomitta.bsky.social on the occasion of releasing his new solo triple album, “Twilight Override” (dBpm Records, 2025). https://bit.ly/4sxuoSw20 Apr 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjx5vwfwjj2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjpmbjrwh22n@sophyromvari.bsky.social “Blue Heron” (Janus Films, 2026), is the Canadian director’s debut feature film chronicling a family’s slow-burning crisis and a daughter’s attempt at reconciliation decades later. https://bit.ly/3OIlrYO17 Apr 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpmbjrwh22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjp6wlnqtr2fIn this Oral History, artist and educator jina valentine illustrates her life in terms of place, the bodies of work that she has done, and the conceptual underpinnings to them. valentine was interviewed by artist, essayist, and educator, Kelly Lloyd, published in 2024. bit.ly/4vGkxgc17 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp6wlnqtr2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjp56o4jqj2eFilmmaker @sophyromvari.bsky.social, interviewed by Elissa Suh, contemplates the blurred lines between documentary, memory, and fiction in her debut feature. https://bit.ly/4esVwyK17 Apr 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp56o4jqj2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjn5ib6rnv2eBidding for the BOMB Magazine: 44th Anniversary Gala & Benefit Auction is open now! The 44th BOMB Art Auction will be hosted on Artsy through Wednesday, April 29th at 12 PM EST. This year’s auction features over 60 works of art by renowned and emerging artists. artsy.net/bombmagazine https://artsy.net/bombmagazine16 Apr 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjn5ib6rnv2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjmrqv4zuz2xStephanie Wambugu discusses her debut novel, “Lonely Crowds” (Little Brown and Company, 2025), with writer Amanda Chemeche, about the illusions we build around the people we love and the cost of living for art. https://bit.ly/4dSzGEM16 Apr 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmrqv4zuz2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjkenkescu27Today is the last day to submit to our 2026 Poetry Contest. Submissions are do by today at 11:59 PM EST. bit.ly/4tlnqS815 Apr 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkenkescu27https://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjkbbtnbbq27Artist Grace Rosario Perkins, interviewed by musician and writer Erica Dawn Lyle, discusses her abstract paintings that tune into the unearthly. “Grace Rosario Perkins: Meeting In Motion” is on view at Company in New York City until April 18. https://bit.ly/3O6DSpX15 Apr 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkbbtnbbq27https://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjhnk3noqa2rThree brief and life-affirming poems by Milo de Angelis from “Last Stops of the Night Journey” (Archipelago, 2026), a collection from an Italian poet who has spent decades teaching inside a high-security prison. https://bit.ly/4cspd0n14 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhnk3noqa2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjhk46zsbm27Benoit Denizet-Lewis, interviewed by writer Adrian Brune, discusses his newest book, “You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation” (William Morrow, 2026), which sets out to explore the slippery science of becoming someone new. https://bit.ly/4cJIZFK14 Apr 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhk46zsbm27https://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mjfadxdz6i2kThe visual artist and performer, interviewed by writer Michael Londres, discusses the bawdy bodies that delight and transgress in her new work. https://bit.ly/4tCzKNk13 Apr 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfadxdz6i2khttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mj5yz7bvo22aOur Spring 2026 Fellowships & Residencies listing is here! Each quarter, we list programs with open application periods for artists, writers, and performers. We value our creative community and support those artists among us with this free resource. https://bit.ly/3OrqVae10 Apr 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5yz7bvo22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mj5lm3bh3h2pIn remembrance of the recent passing of legendary abstract painter and minimalist, Pat Steir, we celebrate her interview with poet Anne Waldman from our Spring 2003. bit.ly/47QeYkY10 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5lm3bh3h2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mj3356skqp2hInterviewed by Eileen Myles, Edward Salem discusses his recent collection of poetry, “Intifadas” (Sarabande Books, 2026), about uprisings and the many forms they take. bit.ly/4t4xCya https://bit.ly/4t4xCya09 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3356skqp2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miykrb4guy2pMultidisciplinary artist Wendy Red Star interrogates Native American stereotypes and biased history through her work. In conversation with Annabel Keenan, she discusses turning the gallery into a place where history is transacted. https://bit.ly/4cfidUu08 Apr 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miykrb4guy2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miwk4lyozk2lCommemorating distressing moments in a nation’s history in tangent with the present—and questioning how to do so aptly—persists across art. @mohaiemen.bsky.social, speaking to Adam Szymczyk, discusses how he does so in his recent works. https://bit.ly/4sdxmLP07 Apr 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwk4lyozk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miwed2aa2j2oCongratulations to Spring 2026 issue contributor Rachel Khong on her pub day for “My Dear You” (Knopf, 2026). From Khong’s collection of stories, “Red Shoes” contemplates a woman’s fallout from a trite affair. https://bit.ly/4dx5lLQ07 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwed2aa2j2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miwaxi5ptd2zCongratulations to Constance Debré on her pub day for “Offenses” (Semiotext(e), 2026), featured as an Editor’s Choice by Henry Broome in our Spring 2026 issue. The novel blurs distinctions in fact and fiction and guilt and innocence. https://bit.ly/41PKTOZ07 Apr 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwaxi5ptd2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miw5tbakdl2aCongratulations to Ben Lerner on his pub day for “Transcription” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), featured as an Editor’s Choice by Liza St. James in our Spring 2026 issue. His new novel raises questions about the authenticity of transcripts, memory, and technology. https://bit.ly/4bRo8QE07 Apr 2026 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw5tbakdl2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3miw27hubg62oRachel Khong, interviewed by Yvonne Conza, reveals how in the ten stories that make up “My Dear You” (Knopf, 2026), the surreal feels unmistakably true. bit.ly/47O647A https://bit.ly/47O647A07 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw27hubg62ohttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mitng6hlga26Ye Zhu, interviewed by Heidi Howard, discusses his show, “Ye Zhu: CONTINUATIONS,” an art installation that aims to create a spiritual space—on view at Hawthorn Contemporary in Milwaukee until April 18. bit.ly/4sNSzx4 https://bit.ly/4sNSzx406 Apr 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitng6hlga26https://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mim72dwoem2hIn remembrance of the eminent sculptor and painter Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), we look back at an Oral History from 2014 which traces his career through the Los Angeles and New York City art scenes. bit.ly/4sXjUNA03 Apr 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim72dwoem2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mim3opf3m72hIn a conversation between Patrick Bresnan and Lauren O’Neill-Butler, the filmmaker discusses his documentary that uncovers the human stories buried within the governmental takeover of a Florida college. https://bit.ly/4sejMIb03 Apr 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mim3opf3m72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/bombmag.bsky.social/post/3mijla5kv2j2aLoubna Mrie discusses her new book “Defiance” (Viking, 2026) with writer Gabriella Burnham. “Defiance” is a memoir in which an Alawite woman bore witness with her camera and defied patriarchy at home and in the regime. https://bit.ly/4sYwXy702 Apr 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3bc2tzpmkjavsg2iynuoso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijla5kv2j2a