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The singer-songwriter who walked away from stardom 25 years ago is now the subject of a documentary film.
Bill Withers and the New Documentary, Still Bill -
In this 2004 interview culled from BOMB Magazine’s Digital Archives, Haitian writer Evelyne Trouillot talks to Edwidge Danticat about Haiti’s complex history of violent political unrest.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Evelyne Trouillot Interview -
In this 1994 interview culled from BOMB Magazine’s Digital Archives, performance artist and playwright Keith Antar Mason talks about black anger, pushing the envelope and why he’s not the Ice Cube of performance art.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Keith Antar Mason Interview -
In this 2005 interview from the BOMB Digital Archive, British-Nigerian multimedia artist Yinka Shonibare MBE talks Trojan horses, bringing high culture to the street and wreaking havoc in the art world.
PLUS: Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian.
BOMB THE ROOT: The Yinka Shonibare Interview -
A collection of art and interviews from famous black artists and thinkers through the decades, culled from the BOMB archives.
BOMB THE ROOT: Kara Walker, bell hooks, Yinka Shonibare, A Collection of Art and Interviews -
PHOTO GALLERY: From Basquiat to Kara Walker, over the decades, BOMB, the seminal arts magazine, showcased some of the most compelling black artists on the planet. Check out some of their work here, culled from the BOMB archives.
BOMB The Root -
Mississippi-born blues guitarist and sculptor James "Son" Thomas talks about making art.
BOMB THE ROOT: The James "Son" Thomas Interview -
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
The (Not So) New World Order -
At his mid-career retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, the London-born, Lagos-raised Yinka Shonibare MBE plays both sides of the colonial coin.
Yinka Shonibare: The Art of a Yoruba Trickster -
Anyone who lived in New York City in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s had a graffiti moment. And now, the 25th anniversary edition of Subway Art, a brilliantly rich book of the early graffiti movement, will introduce graffiti to a larger audience.
Subway Art, A Brilliantly Rich Book of the Early Graffiti Movement
