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If you can't trust your Chinese fortune cookie, what can you trust? Last week's fortune cookie proved just slightly self-serving: ...

Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #431 for June 9, 2014. The drawing is by P. C. Vey. "I thought I would ...

Here's a very nice copy of The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 with an original drawing and personalized inscription by the author Lee...

Here's an article on New Yorker covers published in Life magazine back in 1946. Life reproduced the unadorned cover artwork without t...

In 2007, Illustration House sold this original 1955 artwork for the New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. The subject matter, an employee thr...

Cartoonist Ed Arno's oil on canvas offers an exceedingly generous 25th anniversary toast. Does the occasion even matter? ht...

A bit of inspired naughtiness from Peter Arno: Peter Arno,  " Tally-Ho[, goddammit!]" http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctio...

Today is a clothing-optional day here on the blog. I hope you didn't overdress. A series of four anonymous  vintage nude photographs ...

Constantin Alajálov was a major twentieth century illustrator whose incisive observations of our world graced the covers of the New Yorker...