After a Covid-19 shutdown, New York’s Met Museum is reopening at the end of August with a new Jacob Lawrence show- “The American Struggle”. Here’s a 1996 New York Times interview with the artist (Lawrence died in 2000): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-metropolitan-museum.html?referringSource=articleShare Continue Reading
“Alay-Oop” reviewed in “The Nation”: Missing Link William Gropper’s Alay-Oop is an exciting addition to the comics canon. By Jillian SteinhauerTwitter SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 William Gropper is not especially well remembered today, but to the extent that he is, it’s as a political cartoonist. From 1917, when he joined the staff of the New York… Continue Reading