Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Is Sex Necessary — The 21st Anniversary Edition Hot on the heels of bringing home a modern edition (if you consider 1990 modern) of Is Sex Necessary, I came across a very reasonably priced 1950 “Coming Of Age” edition (hardcover), celebrating the book’s 21st anniversary. One has to wonder if this odd anniversary celebration
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Streamed Talk Of Interest: Liza Donnelly On The Morgan Library & Museum Stage This Friday Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979, will be live at Creative Mornings/New York. About her appearance, Ms. Donnelly said: ” I will share my thoughts on creativity, tenacity, renewal. Drawing has been a journey of discovery that allows me to
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Last night, in the company of Liza Donnelly, I spent a few hours touring the Swann Galleries Illustration auction preview in Manhattan — looking over a goodly number of New Yorker original art. Besides seeing the art (Jack Ziegler! Peter Steiner! Mick Stevens! J.B. “Bud” Handelsman! Chast! Tom Toro! Suba! Robert Weber! George Booth!…and more) we were there for
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Polly Adams, who is the 7th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist colosseum this year and the 171st cartoonist brought
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