The French artist’s widow describes Sempé’s decades-long relationship with the magazine and his deep appreciation for its spirit, its staff, and its readers. By Françoise Mouly, Art by J. J. Sempé
The artist discusses the enduring allure of the “Mona Lisa,” the puzzle of celebrity, and which famous people she would invite to dinner.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Anita Kunz
How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
By Nat Hentoff
The artist on her creative process and finding inspiration among artistic friends. By Françoise Mouly, Art by Nicole Rifkin
For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation.
The artist on loosening up and the rewards of keeping a sketchbook.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Gayle Kabaker (August 8, 2022)
The artist on learning to love New York City beaches and balancing passion projects with his career as an illustrator.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by R. Kikuo Johnson
Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.By Dan Kaufman
Annals of a Warming PlanetLiving Through India’s Next-Level Heat WaveIn hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous..By Dhruv Khullar
The artist discusses America’s fractured present and his fears for the future.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Chris Ware
“Am I laughably naïve to think we might all somehow grow up and continue this relatively youngish two-hundred-and-forty-six-year-old experiment? I’m starting to think I am,” the artist Chris Ware said. His cover for the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine captures the divides underlying this year’s Independence Day celebrations. As suburban real-estate agents prepare to carpet the nation’s lawns with miniature flags, millions of Americans are riveted to the proceedings of the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Down the street, the Supreme Court struck down, on June 23rd, a New York state law restricting the ability to carry a gun in public, even as the Senate voted to pass gun-control legislation in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting.
The artist discusses urban spaces and classic Russian children’s books.
New York may be a city where a person can, for the amount one might reasonably expect to pay for a month’s rent in many parts of this country, partake in an hours-long omakase experience featuring toro topped with osetra caviar and uni served with white truffle. Its temples of art may house some of the most renowned—and well-insured—art in the world. But it is also a city that embraces the epicure of the hot dog and the patron of the sidewalk artist. I recently spoke to this week’s cover artist, Victoria Tentler-Krylov, about city planning and sketching people on the subway.
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