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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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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An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Lars Kenseth, Mads Horwath, Harry Bliss, Guy Richards Smit, P.C. Vey. See the Daily cartoons here. _______________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Peter Arno Original Drawing Attempted Bloggery looks at and into an interesting and somewhat baffling Peter Arno Whoops
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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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