Attempted Bloggery

Today our friend  David from Manhattan writes of an animated advertising campaign designed by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon (1920-19...

Jean-Jacques Sempé's  watercolor L'ami Gustave was sold at auction at the end of 2017, the year in which it was painted. Gustav is...

The title gives it away. Those odd pointy paired shapes on Saul Steinberg's 1972 Speech Table are not protractors or compasses but ab...

Art is a commodity. I know I don't usually describe it that way here. Typically I'll look at a specific work of, say, illustration ...

In a 1978 print advertisement for Christie's auction house, cartoonist  Charles Addams takes us to the home of a wealthy art collector...

I really don't understand Bonhams auction house and the recent revamping of its website. One thing collectors really need in order to ...

Christie's New York is offering two works by Saul Steinberg in its October 4-5 sale. The first, View of Florida,  is the one I'll...