I was reminded today while reading an article that there is right this very moment an exhibit of Mary Petty’s work at the Pensacola Museum of Art. Here’s a link. Shown here is my favorite cover of hers (I’ve no idea if it’s in the exhibit), and one of my favorite New Yorker covers of all-time (let’s say it’s in
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Review: Steinberg Exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago
From Forward.com, “Better Call Saul Steinberg” — this look at the exhibit of the master’s work in Chicago. [to the left: a fragment of Steinberg’s “Untitled (Las Vegas) (1989)”]
Read moreHarold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want to believe) a stable of magazine cartoonists unrivaled in American publishing. Some have called that era of the magazine’s cartoons its Golden Age. The guiding forces of the
Read moreAddams collected; Steinberg re-connected; Tom Toro’s Attack
From Stephen Nadler’s blog, Attempted Bloggery, March 11, 2013, “The Charles Addams Catalogue Raisonne” — this highly interesting post about the Addams Foundation’s plan to catalog all of Addams’ work. From Artnews, “America, the Great Colossal Collage: Saul Steinberg’s Forgotten Masterpiece” — yet another very interesting post — this one concerning a huge Steinberg mural reassembled for the first
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