Cemeteries are like indexes of a city’s history, listing the names of its deceased from famous to forgotten in an endless litany.
Thomas Nast
Posted inArt
All the Art That’s Fit to Print
It’s not clear who scooped whom, but there are two gallery shows now on view in New York that examine the relationship between art and the newspaper.
Posted inOpinion
How An Artist in 1881 Imagined the New York of the Future
“When cartoonist Thomas Nast drew this illustration of future Manhattan for Harper’s Weekly in 1881, Trinity Church was the tallest building in New York, with its spire and cross reaching 281 feet into the heavens.” [Paleofuture]
