The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A couple under an umbrella on a bridge. Sharp-eyed readers might note that this is the third cover out of the last four employing one-point perspective (da Vinci’s’s Last Supper is perhaps the best example of art using
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We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
Read moreFall Cartoonist Panel of Interest Not too early to pencil this one in on your Fall calendar: Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella, David Borchart, and Chris Weyant will appear September 29th at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival. Here’s a piece about the festival. __________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State of Mind Goes deep into the New Yorker issue of June 8
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