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A look at Christoph Niemann’s interactive cover of this week’s issue, “Eureka”: http://nyr.kr/19hb1yM
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Cover of the May 20, 2013 issue. Click here to interact with Christoph Niemann’s cover, ”Eureka”: http://nyr.kr/19hb1yM
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In the spirit of openheartedness and what life is really all about, I’ll go so far as to say that the fear of others may mask some deep-seated desire to understand, and maybe even to love. Because really, what is there to be afraid of? Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one loving couple who are raising children, same-sex or not. And it’s really just the loving part that matters. That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of “diagnosable” to the final edit of “so what?” must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness. My wife, being a biology teacher, puts it even more succinctly: “Why are all these people so worried about who everybody else is sleeping with, anyway?” (Score two for Moms.)
—Chris Ware on his cover of the May 13, 2013 issue. Get the story behind the cover: http://nyr.kr/10d7TyC
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A selection of photos from “I Only Want You to Love Me,” an exhibition of work by the British photographer Miles Aldridge, which opens at Steven Kasher Gallery next week: http://nyr.kr/11qEgw4 -
An early look at next week’s cover, “Shadow Over Boston,” by Eric Drooker: http://nyr.kr/17LMi7V
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The Real Value of a Billion Dollars of Cubism
The seventy-eight items won’t only turn the Met from a whistle stop into a Grand Central of early-twentieth-century art, it will almost certainly spark a general revaluation, in all ways, of the most consequential and least seductive modern-art movement.
Peter Schjedahl on Ronald Lauder’s cubist art gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the artistic value of intellectual challenge: http://nyr.kr/XFE9zV
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Cartoon by William Haefeli. For more: http://nyr.kr/13Qlvbc
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Hey Look!
New Yorker cartoonists and comics fans Benjamin Schwartz and Liam Francis Walsh took a trip to the Society of Illustrators to see “The Art of Harvey Kurtzman.” (Through May 11th, Society of Illustrators, 128 East Sixty-third Street.): http://nyr.kr/14rqbmR
(Source: newyorker.com)
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“Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive,” is a three-part exhibition of photographs from the Walther Collection, curated by the South African scholar Tamar Garb, with works that range from late-nineteenth-century photographs from southern Africa to pictures by present-day African and African-American artists. The final installment of the series, “Poetics and Politics,” is currently on view at the Walther Project Space, in Chelsea.
Click-through for a slide show of photographs from “Distance and Desire,” with captions abbreviated from the catalogue, followed by a Q. & A. with Garb: http://nyr.kr/10VCuoK
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Shouts & Murmurs - Performance-Art Lullabies→
Hush little artist, don’t say a peep;
MoMA’s gonna watch you as you sleep.
And if the crowds try to harass,
MoMA’s gonna box you up in glass.
And if you lay in your glass shrine,
MoMA’s gonna hype your show online
And if your show draws lots of folks,
MoMA’s gonna hear some Conan jokes.… and other imagined performance-art lullabies by Ethan Kuperberg: http://nyr.kr/11MGA4Y
