FUSE: A BOMB Podcast

Chase Hall & Henry Taylor

Chase Hall’s paintings in coffee and acrylic on cotton canvas investigate generational celebrations and traumas encoded throughout American history. In 2023, his work was

Tanya Aguiñiga & Julio César Morales

For this episode, we asked artist, mother, and activist Tanya Aguiñiga which artist she would most wish to speak with and she chose visual artist and curator Julio César

Maggie Nelson & Tala Madani

For this episode, we asked writer Maggie Nelson which artist she would most wish to speak with and she chose painter and animation artist Tala Madani. In the course of th

Tschabalala Self & Abdu Ali

Abdu Ali is a musician, writer, cultural worker, and artist. Blending punk, jazz, Baltimore club music, and rap. Their works explore ideas of race, gender, sexuality, and

David Byrne & Open Mike Eagle

David Byrne is a musician, composer, and producer, and the cofounder of the band Talking Heads. His recent acclaimed rock spectacle, American Utopia, toured the world and

Miguel Gutierrez & Gabrielle Civil

Gabrielle Civil is a Black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, from Detroit. She has premiered fifty original performance artworks around the world and is the

Eiko Otake & David Harrington

David Harrington is the artistic director, founder and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. For over 45 years, San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit

FUSE Season 2 Trailer

FUSE Season 2 Lineup:   Episode #1: Okay Kaya & John Wilson Episode #2: Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf Episode #3: Eiko Otake & David Harrington Episode #4: Miguel Gutierrez &

Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf

Olivia Laing is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City, and Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. She was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for

Okay Kaya & John Wilson

Kaya Wilkins is a Norwegian-American Berlin-based musician, composer, and artist who records and performs as Okay Kaya. Okay Kaya has released numerous acclaimed albums i

Ja’Tovia Gary & Kaitlyn Greenidge

Ja’Tovia Gary is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker. Her films include Giverny I and most recently An Ecstatic Experience. Her work is held in the permanent collection

Becca Blackwell & Okwui Okpokwasili

Becca Blackwell is a New York-based trans actor, performer, and writer. Their play, They, Themself and Schmerm, has been presented across the country. They have collabora

Deborah Eisenberg & Francine Prose

In this episode, we did something a little different: revisiting a BOMB interview from 1993 between Deborah Eisenberg and Francine Prose. Deborah Eisenberg has published

FUSE Trailer

Since 1981, BOMB Magazine has delivered the voices of the most iconic artists of our time, publishing conversations between visual, literary, and performing artists. BOMB

Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich

Simone Leigh is an artist working with sculpture, installation, video, and social practice. In 2018, Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Her sixtee

Nick Hornby & Maria Schneider

Nick Hornby is a novelist, screenwriter, lyricist, and producer. His novel High Fidelity was recently adapted into a show that premiered in February (2020) on Hulu, starr

Mira Jacob & Scott Cheshire

Mira Jacob is the author of the graphic memoir Good Talk and the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Scott Cheshire is the author of the novel High As the Horses' B