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Apple will shut down the MobileMe Gallery on June 30, 2012. My portable Design Museum moves here to Tumblr for creative adulation and inspiration. //
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newyorker:

“When I heard the news that the Freedom Tower will be now be the highest building in Manhattan, I thought: ‘Kids!’” Ana Juan, the artist behind this week’s cover “Defiance,” says. “When you are a kid, you’re with your friends, and you say, ‘My ice cream is bigger than yours!’” she adds laughingly. “It’s a kind of a race, even if it makes for a great skyline. Still, I can’t help wondering: ‘Why do humans need to build higher and higher?’ It’s a show of power—something that doesn’t necessarily hold much interest for me. We need better schools, or a better health-care system, or to take care of the cities we have… but I guess building ever higher is our way to show how great we are.”

Cover of the May 27, 2013 issue. For more on Ana Juan’s cover, “Defiance,” as well as a slide show of images of the downtown skyline after 9/11 and some of her many children’s books illustrations: http://nyr.kr/10IKny1

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Cartoon by William Haefeli. For more: http://nyr.kr/VONWNB

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nevver:

The New Yorker

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nevver:

Sempé

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blowncovers:

Global Warming Cover Contest: Runner-Up #4
By Chee Yang Ong
This image perfectly captures a quintessential New York experience. Nadja has been thinking about this image a lot as she waits for the subway to come. This makes the intense heat seem healthy and purifying — which is maybe better than focusing on how sticky you feel.

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Peter Arno (neé Curtis Arnoux Peters Jr.) was born August 1, 1904 to a prominent New York family, and educated at the Hotchkiss School and Yale University. From 1925 until 1968 Arno was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine. His cartoons often depicted a cross-section of New York society. In 1927 Arno married The New Yorker magazine columnist and fashion editor Lois Long. The couple’s only daughter, Patricia was born September 18, 1928. The marriage ended in 1930. Soon after, Arno married society debutante Mary Livingston Lansing, which also ended in divorce. With a successful career poking fun at society matrons, businessmen, chorus girls and playboys, the handsome, debonair artist became a celebrity himself, endorsing consumer products, judging beauty pageants and appearing as himself in the 1937 film, “Artists and Models.” Arno was often seen in the company of high society’s most beautiful women. In 1968, Peter Arno died after battling with lung cancer. He was 68.

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From the creator of Shrek!
newyorker:

A 1934 William Steig cartoon.

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blowncovers:

Happy Fourth of July! (the winner of our July 4th contest, by Jin Suk)

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blowncovers:

Happy Fourth of July - By Brigit Schössow

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newyorker:

A 1960 Arthur Getz cover.

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