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# In the Orbit of Planet Hillary
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/in-the-orbit-of-planet-hillary/
- Published: 2014-01-23T20:39:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:58.000Z
- Description: There are so many things to say about the New York Times Magazine cover for this coming weekend, which features Hillary Clinton's face stretched and wrinkled and turned into a planet.
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Tony Oursler, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![(via David Joachim on Twitter)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/planet-hillary.jpg)

(via David Joachim on Twitter)

There are so many things to say about the *New York Times* *Magazine* [cover for this coming weekend](http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/how-our-hillary-clinton-cover-came-about/?smid=tw-share&ref=hyperallergic.com), which features Hillary Clinton’s face stretched and wrinkled and turned into a planet. It is terrifying. It is a “[Dadaist masterpiece](http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/01/why-the-planet-hillary-new-york-times-magazine-cover-is-a-legitimate-dadaist-masterpiece?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+vanityfair%2Fvfdailyfeed+%28VF+Daily+%28X-rail%29%29).” It is “[no joke](https://twitter.com/davidjoachim/status/426380783021219840?ref=hyperallergic.com).” It is a veritable wellspring of critical interpretation. As with any great work of art, more questions are raised than answered here.

Is it a riff on [Little Face Mitt](http://littlefacemitt.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)?

![(via littlefacemitt.tumblr.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/littlefacemitt.jpg)

(via littlefacemitt.tumblr.com)

Or the [Me Gusta](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/me-gusta?ref=hyperallergic.com) meme?

![(via knowyourmeme.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/me_gusta_mucho.jpg)

(via knowyourmeme.com)

Or did multimedia artist [Tony Oursler](http://tonyoursler.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) make it?

![Tony Oursler, TK](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/honolulu_banner.jpg)

(via tonyoursler.com)

To wit:

![Planet-Hillary-Photoshop](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/planet-hillary-photoshop.jpg)