I plan to attend as many of these events as I can. From the New Yorker website (the links are mine):
The New Yorker Cartoon Tour
Whether the subject is love, politics, business, or talking dogs, New Yorker cartoons are always the bottom line in humor—and the first thing readers turn to each week. The New Yorker celebrates its eightieth anniversary with a travelling exhibition of memorable cartoons inked by notable cartoonists from the past eight decades.
March 7-12
New York, N.Y.
Cooper Classics Collection
137 Perry Street
212-929-3909
Joyce Carol Oates
The author reads from a selection of her work, and talks with Leonard Lopate. Tickets, which cost ten dollars, are required for admission.
March 15, 7 p.m.
Flushing, N.Y.
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
718-997-4646
www.qc.edu/readings
Ian Buruma and Louis Menand
The authors participate in a discussion moderated by Leonard Lopate. Tickets, which cost ten dollars, are required for admission.
March 22, 7 p.m.
Flushing, N.Y.
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
718-997-4646
www.qc.edu/readings
Victoria Roberts and others
Speaking April 6 in Manhattan; more details TK.
A Roundtable on the Art of Writing
The writers Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard, and Adam Zagajewski, whose poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, participate in a roundtable discussion. Tickets, which cost ten dollars, are required for admission.
April 21, 7 p.m.
Flushing, N.Y.
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
718-997-4646
www.qc.edu/readings
And ending soon, from the Saul Steinberg Foundation site:
Steinberg at The New Yorker: Exhibition to feature over 50 pivotal works from the artist’s career
Pace Wildenstein, 32 East 57th St., (212) 582-4868
February 11 through March 5
Beginning in 1941, Steinberg produced 90 covers and more than 1,200 drawings for The New Yorker. Steinberg at The New Yorker, organized in conjunction with The Saul Steinberg Foundation, features many significant works completed over a career of nearly six decades, including View of the World from 9th Avenue (1975), Looking East (1986), and The Dream of E (1961). The exhibition will also include the first public showing of The Line, from the 1950s, Steinberg’s signature conception of a continuous line that redefines itself as it moves across the page. Issuing from the artist’s pen, it quickly becomes a ground line for architecture, a clothesline, railroad tracks, and on and on until, more than 30 feet later, it is restored to the hand holding the pen. Steinberg at The New Yorker coincides with the publication of Joel Smith’s Steinberg at The New Yorker, with an introduction by Ian Frazier (Abrams).
Update: The NY Post‘s James Gardner says:
Saul Steinberg – Three stars
For decades, Saul Steinberg was the New Yorker magazine to many. In addition to being one of their wittiest cartoonists, he was a gifted artist whose chosen media were ironically austere line-drawings, a la Paul Klee, that on occasion yielded to the luxury of gouache. Steinberg claimed to be a writer who happened to draw, an assessment borne out by the almost script-like fluency of his unrelenting lines. But he could just as readily have declared that he was a musician who drew, for his pen and ink drawings suggest musical notes on a staff. In any event, this show has an extensive sampling of his work, including every cover of the New Yorker that he designed.
Well, all right, as Buddy Holly would say. I’m there. Steinberg’s majestic NO and his paper-bag masks in Inge Morath’s photographs are two of my favorite things to look at in the world. But who will be my plus-one? It could be you, reader of emdashes. Email me at emdashes at gmail dot com and come along for the ride. All your remarks will be attributed either to “my companion,” “the verificationist,” or “the seal in the bedroom.” Let’s go, New York!
Please let me know if you hear of any other happenings in the magazine’s orbit (as you should know by now, I define that rather broadly). And, of course, anyone who goes to one of the non-NYC events listed online (and there are several, updated weekly) should certainly write in with a report.
See you over the weekend, when I will be posting. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays this coder from the swift accretion of her appointed links.
Events: The New Yorker near you [New Yorker, online only]
Life and Work [The Saul Steinberg Foundation]
Art Attack [NY Post]
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