Showing posts with label New Statesman. Show all posts
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Monday, September 19, 2016

The Third Avenue Street Fair

The Third Avenue Street Fair was held on Sunday, September 11. I don't attend very many of these fairs; they don't usually have anything I'd want to buy. Still, it was one of my last chances to spend some time outdoors in the summer and anyway I desperately needed to find socks—you know, the dressy ones with the gold toes. So out I went.

The street fair covered Third Avenue from 67th Street to 86th Street.


Lady Liberty stands on her pedestal at 86th Street.

Pickle Me Pete

Balloon vendor

Posters

This unsigned poster image titled New York looks like the work of Ton Smits. The poster design deliberately imitates the New Yorker's logo without being a New Yorker image.

The view to the south


Still proudly for Bernie. The American Psycho! t-shirts may be inspired by a British New Statesman magazine cover.

New Statesman, March 11-17, 2016

New Yorker covers matted and for sale

Karl's Balls featuring takoyaki (octopus balls)
"From Osaka to Yo Blocka."

Glazed & Confused. Talkin' bout my generation.

Kettle Corn NYC


Green Ambulance, Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health

NYCFC bouncy house. The F is for soccer.




Urban Lobster Shack

So that explains it!


Opera on Tap performs at TheaterMania


Street harpist

Your Second Avenue Subway progress report


In conclusion, there was not one damn sock for sale on Third Avenue.


Note:  Does anyone know the cover illustrator for the New Statesman's "American Psycho" image?


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Monday, September 12, 2016

A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman



I attended the opening reception for "A Retrospective:  Ralph Steadman" at the Society of Illustrators on Friday evening. This is a traveling exhibition that started in London's Cartoon Museum. Ralph Steadman, 80, is a draftsman of prodigious skill seemingly able to draw anything. The event drew many luminaries from the world of illustration, cartooning and animation, although it did not bring out the artist himself, who instead had met with only elite members of the Society the day before.

Ralph Steadman, Self-Portrait, 2006
(HST is Hunter S. Thompson.)

Jud Bergeron and Ralph Steadman, Vintage Dr. Gonzo, bronze


Ralph Steadman, Donald Trump—Porky Pie!!
New Statesman,
December 17, 2015


Hunter S. Thompson and Donald J. Trump

Journey to Las Vegas from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:  A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, 1971


Ralph Steadman, White Rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1967

Ralph Steadman, The Landing from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, 1975

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried.
As he landed his crew with care;      
Supporting each man on the top of the tide  
By a finger entwined in his hair.      

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."   






Punch, March 17, 1965

Punch, March 17, 1965
Ralph Steadman, Reagan's Latest Close-Up, March 1980

Ralph Steadman, Rats in the kitchen and the head pastrycook's drinking problem became a daily occurrence.
Ralph Steadman, Pallas's Cormorant, 2011

A Retrospective:  Ralph Steadman



September 25, 2016 Update:  In the comments section, a Society of Illustrators official mentions that I should have come to the Society's September 10 brunch if I wanted to meet the artist. I wish to point out that in no way did the Society of Illustrators promote this brunch to the public as an event in which one could meet the artist, although I believe insiders were privy to those details. The Society has many worthwhile events, but it can be a bit clubby.
Brunch and a gallery talk at the Society of Illustrators, Saturday, September 10, 2016

You can see that Ralph Steadman went out of his way to avoid the opening night riff-raff:
Jud Bergeron's Instagram photo of Ralph Steadman at the Society of Illustrators hours before the September 9 opening reception.



Note:  The exhibition "A Retrospective:  Ralph Steadman" is covered in a New York Post review by Barbara Hoffman.

I'm going to publish some scribblings by Ralph Steadman this week. If you have some of your own to contribute, please send them along.


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