"The Skin of Our Teeth" Ad

I am pleased to let you know that the back cover of the new issue of The New Yorker features my art created for the play The Skin of Our Teeth. The play is produced by Lincoln Center Theater.

The art was created in collaboration with Nicky Lindeman, Creative Director at SpotCo.

Polish Poster by Milton

My latest acquisition: Milton's poster for the Polish Poster show from 1966 at School of Visual Arts.

 
 

"The Skin of Our Teeth" Poster Design

Here is my new poster for the play The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz in production at Lincoln Center Theater.

The poster was created in collaboration with Nicky Lindeman, creative director at SpotCo.

"In 1942, just four years after Our Town, Thornton Wilder brought a very different take on the American family to Broadway. And yet, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH was in some ways very similar to its predecessor: both won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; both break the fourth wall; both are about family and the resilience of the human condition; both mix the comic with the bittersweet; and both are, in different ways, ultimately hopeful!

But where Our Town is set in one time and place in the imagined past, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH does not sit still. It catapults us forward and back in time and place, spanning 5000 years and no time at all. It follows the Antrobus family as they confront the challenges of nothing less than the apocalypse, dinosaurs, war, a woolly mammoth, the Ice Age and raising two kids in suburban Excelsior, New Jersey. It is mayhem, sometimes absurd and funny and sometimes deeply moving, but it is always real."

Despite being written in 1942, it seems that the play is very appropriate for the time that we are living in. You can see more of my work here.

 

Blast From the Past

Someone just sent me my 1992 illustration for The New Yorker.

I haven't seen this illustration ever since it was published. That was 30 years ago.

 

And I know why. The illustration is not a very good one.

 

 

Andy Warhol and David Hockney's posters for Sarajevo

On this day in 1984, the Winter Olympic Games took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

20 leading artists created posters for the event. Here are their names: James Rosenquist, Emilio Greco, Francesco Clemente, Giuseppe Santomaso, Milton Glaser, Cy Twombly, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jean-Michel Folon, Victor Vasarely, Yozo Hamaguchi, Andy Warhol, Howard Hodgkin, Kyu-Baik Hwang, Gottfried Helnwein, Piero Dorazio, Henry Moore, Jiri Kolar, David Hockney, Mimmo Paladino, Hundrertwasser,

Here are Andy Warhol and David Hockney's posters. 

 

I Got a Present

In a recent communication with Andrew McLuhan, the grandson of Marshall McLuhan and the director of The McLuhan Institute, he told me about a Milton Glaser poster that was totally unknown to me. Milton created the poster for Tom Wolfe's documentary Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message (1984). Amazingly, he even had the mechanics of that poster, and he sent me photos of it. 

 

Unfortunately, he didn't have any printed copies of the poster. But he had two copies of a smaller flyer with part of the original poster design. He was very kind and sent me one of them as a present. Here are the photos of the front and back of it.

 

 

The Cable 1951 The Yearbook Of The Cooper Union

I recently acquired The Cable 1951 The Yearbook Of The Cooper Union school. This was the class of the future Push Pin Studios members, Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser and Reynold Ruffins. Here are their charming photos. Also, inside the book, there are some of the first published illustrations of Milton Glaser.