If you heard peals of laughter ringing out through the quiet, reverent halls of an art museum, what would your reaction be? Would you “tut-tut” in their general direction, maybe shoot them a glare or ...
Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer’s satirical illustrations, Reader’s Digest’s AI jokes, and the latest syndicated comic strips are offering sharp, humorous takes on modern life. These works explore ...
The world of classic art can look overwhelming from the outside, with a plethora of styles, conventions, must-remember pieces, and artists. And that’s only if one stays firmly rooted in the Western ...
Though Major League Baseball has scrubbed the images of all of its players from its websites amid an ongoing labor dispute between owners and players, one Staten Island man is doing his part to put ...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “The Grand Odalisque” (1814) this was in the artist’s day considered a bold and scandalous image. But on closer examination it was demonstrated that the figure is ...
Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some 60 years ago, when she was around 7, after her mother gave her a book by James Thurber. She started tracing his art, and it made her mom smile.
Artist Liz Maugans taps into the comic side in “Pool Drawings,” a new collection of 52 spreads over 103 pages in which she catalogs, sometimes sarcastically, modern adult life in America. This release ...
Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Owen Kline about his new movie, "Funny Pages," in which a young cartoonist explores the relationship between creativity and craft. "Funny Pages," a new film ...
Liza Donnelly has had a long career writing and drawing cartoons for The New Yorker. In her latest book, she continues her examination of the... Cartoonist and writer Liza Donnelly began drawing some ...