Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Wet Paint 🎨

 No magazine has a cover style as distinctive, enduring and charming as that of The New Yorker. With its unmistakably unique title font and with almost a century’s commitment to using original artwork on its front cover in every weekly edition since 1925, it’s arguably the most influential magazine ever when it comes to culture, politics and the arts. Ilonka Karasz, a young talented Hungarian émigré would provide 186 of these intense, rich and colourfully painted vignettes of American life over five decades – the second most of any artist in the magazine’s history. Hauntingly striking with her long jet-black hair and soulful eyes beneath heavy black eyebrows, wearing colourful bohemian dresses; she was the Hungarian incarnation of the Mona Lisa. Unlike the famous painting, however, many in the arts world today are still oblivious to this unsung design hero.     

She Put Bohemianism on New York’s Front Page


 Damon Galgut Q & A 


       At Scroll.in Sayari Debnath has: 'An interview with Damon Galgut about his books, his connections with India, and winning The Booker Prize', in ‘I simply write what I have experienced, what I know’: Damon Galgut, 2021 Booker Prize winner



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