News
Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
The New Yorker
Art
The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists
Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor.
Art
Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.
Interview
"Leave No Joke Un-Joked": An Interview with 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists, a new documentary by Leah Wolchok, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of the magazine’s 90-year-old cartooning department.
Art
The Serious Business of 'New Yorker' Cartoons
"Cartoons either make the strange familiar or the familiar strange," says New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff in Leah Wolchok's documentary about the magazine's enduring cartoon department, Very Semi-Serious.
Opinion
A New Law Could Protect Art Historians. What About Journalists?
There are moments when the discourse on art seems incredibly undemocratic — say, for example, when a historian or authenticator gets sued because a collector doesn’t like his or her analysis of a work.
News
New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl Retracts, Apologizes for Stance on Detroit
New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl has retracted his position endorsing the sale of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection, a stance which provoked a furor driven in no small part by Hrag Vartanian's denunciatory piece from Wednesday. Schjeldahl strikes a sincere tone in the brief update and a
Opinion
New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
Opinion
The New Yorker Wades into "Curator" Confusion
This week's New Yorker takes a shot at the craze to "curate" everything in our lives.
Art
Art With a Dash of Hospitality But Save Room for Dessert
I'm almost embarrassed to confess I've only just recently made the acquaintance of Wayne Thiebaud's work. The man's been painting upwards of 70 years and spent much of his time in California. I, despite my accumulation of years in New York, also consider California my home. There's really no excuse.
Art
My 168 Hours of Fame in the New Yorker and the resulting Gush of “Like” Letters
Beginning on Wednesday, the emails and text messages started pouring in. “You’re in The New Yorker!” was the notion of the generally congratulatory remarks. This was not untrue. But, it also wasn’t entirely accurate. My friend and former studio neighbor, Hope Gangloff, painted a portrait of me paint
Interview
Jennifer Dalton is “Making Sense” of Jerry Saltz’s Facebook Page
Now that Jerry Saltz has proven himself — yet again — to be an attention whore with his stint on Work of Art, I’m starting to like him more … yes, I love a car crash. And just when we were all jonesing for another fix of “What is crazy uncle Jerry up to?” Artist Jennifer Dalton is opening a show tod