Wednesday Spill: Opening Today! An Edward Koren Exhibit At Ohio State University; And Speaking Of…Paul Karasik On A Visit To Edward Koren’s Studio

Edward Koren Exhibit At Ohio State University

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This retrospective of Koren’s New Yorker work spans his entire career, beginning with his very early cartoons and first contributions to the magazine in the 1960s, and also includes a small fraction of the thousands of preliminary sketches that he regularly submitted.

Link here for more on the exhibit. 

Edward Koren’s A-Z Entry:

 

Edward Koren Born, 1935, New York City. Died, April 14, 2023, Brookfield, Vermont. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980), Caution: Small Ensembles (Pantheon, 1983), What AboutMe? (Pantheon Books, 1989). The Ink Spill Edward Koren Interview_

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And Speaking Of: Paul Karasik On A Visit to The Late Edward Koren’s Studio

Here’s “A Visit to Planet Koren” from Paul Karasik, who’s been contributing to The New Yorker since July of 1999.

Above: The OK* from then Art Editor, James Geraghty for Edward Koren’s first New Yorker drawing (published May 26, 1962)

*An OKed drawing indicates a drawing bought by the magazine.

 

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