Jules Feiffer (1929–2025)
Here’s an NPR obituary, with links to more NPR features about his work.
Here’s an NPR obituary, with links to more NPR features about his work.
An editorial cartoon, killed
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit The Washington Post after her editor killed a cartoon.
Telnaes left the The Washington Post after her editor killed the cartoon:
Lyonel Feininger, at last
Okay, finally: here are some samples of this painter’s work.
Leonardo, no
It’s far too busy: split screens, with art on one side, nature on the other; unidentified artworks, by any number of artists, split-screen or full-, appearing and disappearing rapidly; art historians speaking as music plays behind them, or over them. The presentation defies any contemplation of art.
Flip
The pancake cook of Squirrel Forest, amid colored-pencil marks.
A WPA Halloween poster
A roller-skating carnival.
How to hibernate
An illustrated guide.
Recently updated
Another Hopper Zippy.
Zippy Hopper
Today’s Zippy is a thing of beauty. The source: Edward Hopper’s Excursion into Philosophy.
Drawing cloth and clothing
Today’s Zippy is all about cloth and clothing and the work of the “fine artist.” Bill Griffith is of course an artist and cartoonist both.
Dudel Draw
A 2024 Apple Design Award finalist: Dudel Draw, free for the iPad.
Sunday in the park with geese
After Seurat.
Witness for the prosecution
A courtroom sketch meant to depict Michael Cohen. But it looks like Fred Rogers, or Neil Gorsuch, or a family friend.
Beyond categories
As Duke Ellington said.
Connecting dots
Data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom, conspiracy theory.
A missing painting
The theft of a Vermeer, missing from a New York Times story.
A philosophy of art
“Art is the tangled mess of everything we experience but cannot express in any other way”: in today’s Nancy, a philosophy of art.
Valentine’s Day
An ancient Egyptian amulet.
Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
“When he asked if I was a Communist, I told him I was a Republican, and at the end of the conversation, I found myself working for The Museum of Modern Art.”
A Jerry Craft Zoom
What I learned.
Word of the day: ekphrasis
I recall sitting in an NEH seminar and being told that if one wanted to befuddle colleagues, all that was necessary was to speak the word ekphrasis. Well, maybe. I’m not so sure.
Bread, milk, toilet paper
A post that has been receiving a great many visits: Ready For the Snow, a painting of bread, milk, and toilet paper.
Squirrel condo
As drawn by Geo-B: a squirrel condo.
On the waterfront, continued
Geo-B drew three guys on the waterfront.
White Rose Tea
Two ads.
Michael Tracy/Tracy 168 (1958–2023)
The graffiti artist Michael Tracy, Tracy 168, has died at the age of sixty-five.
What’s art for?
William Deresiewicz: “Art is for increasing life.”
Harry Smith at the Whitney
At the Whitney Museum of American Art, an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Harry Smith, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith.
Sardines in the news
A Picasso ceramic and TikTok.
Caravaggesque
From Till We Meet Again (dir. Frank Borzage, 1944). What lighting!