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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Early Cover Release Every so often, The New Yorker rush releases its cover art for the following week. Here’s next week’s, by David Plunkert: ___________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil & J.A.K. In Conversation From May of this year, Amy Kurzweil in a Book Talk at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, followed by a conversation with J.A.K.. See it here! Amy
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Attempted Bloggery On A Recent Auction Of Thurber Dogs A Spill favorite site, Attempted Bloggery has taken a long look at a recent auction of two framed Thurber dog drawings (and related materials). I was keeping tabs on this auction (as I do on any auction that has Thurber drawings) and was hoping there might be a slim chance of
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