The Statue of Liberty has emerged as a common motif for artists who’ve targeted ICE in their work over the last year, and in Tim Lane's poster, a horde of agents swarm the 19th-century sculpture, invasively jabbing and piercing the folds of her robe www.dominicumile.com/blog/abolish...

Original Don Heck artwork introducing Iron Man in Tales of Suspense no. 39 (March, 1963) fetches $3,875,000 (!!!) at auction, “a new auction record for original comic art” www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

In the 1960s, Budweisers at Seattle’s Penthouse jazz club cost a dollar, and on any given night you could see the likes of Bill Evans, Horace Silver, and others on the bandstand. Tapes of the era made by KING-FM's Jim Wilke have a “visceral, in-the-moment immediacy" stereophile.com/content/lost...

A Frank Gehry-designed desk “carved from blocks of emerald glass” is headed to auction. Can you technically still call it “reconfigurable” or modular if this thing weighs 15,000 pounds? Who’s gonna reconfigure that www.archpaper.com/2026/07/iceh...

Every time a "verified" AI-generated recruiter on LinkedIn, with an AI-generated profile photo, sends an AI-generated message about a job "training AI models" at a tech behemoth for trash money, an AI-generated angel gets its wings. But the angel has three eyes, and its wings are made of waffles

Wall of psychedelic poster art at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s “Art of Noise” exhibit (this section felt uneven/underwhelming but appreciated the posters as well as the tributes to Izzy Sanabria and early hip hop flyers)

The extraordinary work of late Philly native and unsung psychedelic poster artist Bonnie MacLean is represented at Cooper Hewitt’s “Art of Noise” exhibit—this December, 1967, poster is one of several works of hers on view in the graphic design component www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/art-...

On view at Yares is "Swan Lake 1" (1961, oil on canvas), which, wrote E.A. Carmean, "marked a rare time in her work in which Frankenthaler developed a series of pictures around a particular image or theme" (this work appeared on the cover of Artforum in 1969) www.yaresart.com/exhibitions/...

We caught more large-scale Frankenthaler at Yares Art, which pairs her work with sculptor Anthony Caro’s (on view until July 11). And dont miss the ceiling murals by Arthur Covey on the way into the building www.yaresart.com/exhibitions/... #art

Pre-Esquire and 'New Journalism,' Wolfe was a reporter at the New York Herald Tribune's city desk, while the Bronx-born Glaser was on his way to becoming a luminary of 20th-century graphic design eyeondesign.aiga.org/five-lesser-...

"Yesterday at Coney Island...Temperature 89…They came early, stayed late" — Arthur "Weegee" Fellig's photograph from a lifeguard stand at Coney Island. Published in a pictorial journalism-focused newspaper called PM on July 22, 1940

John Lennon loaded up a portable jukebox w/ his fave 45s in 1965 and lugged it around on tour. Loved hearing The Walkmen's Walter Martin poke around in Lennon's picks, playing the selections, sharing his own love for them. Good stuff. Part 1 of 2: waltermartin.substack.com/p/episode-79...

That composition! Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken's image of 42nd street in Manhattan (1960) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Salvador Dalí's cover art for the June 1, 1939, issue of Vogue, which was recently on view at Di Donna's Madison Avenue gallery as part of Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939. We caught this before it closed and holy cow was it crowded didonna.com/exhibitions/...

At NYC's David Kordansky Gallery through August 7, 'An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995,' an exhibition of photographs of the Dead curated by Ricki Blakesberg and Jay Blakesberg www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions/...

In 1954, Seymour Chwast, Glaser, and Ed Sorel formed Push Pin—their Cooper Union classmate Reynold Ruffins joined a bit later (tho he'd already worked on a pre-Push Pin Monthly Graphic project, the Push Pin Almanack). Here's Ruffins for Cosmopolitan (1975) peoplesgdarchive.org/item/822/ill...

In its original form on newsstands, Milton Glaser’s opulent illustration stopped just short of crashing into the elegant letterforms of the supplement’s New York masthead, then a phototype interpretation of a typeface called Egyptienne Bold Condensed www.dominicumile.com/blog/milton-...

“First I would do a line drawing, then we would get a full-size photostat of it and paste a product called Cello-Tak—little patches of colored plastic—in between the lines. It was all by hand; it would take hours” sva.edu/features/tim...

Great chat between journalist @marcissist.bsky.social and author Lisa MacKinney about her @versechorus.com book on The Shangri-Las—includes some discussion of the origins of the reductive and harmful implications of the term “girl groups” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

On Sat at Mama Tried we were glad to post up for the very heavy new jams coming from the ER Band, led by guitarist-songwriter Emily Robb. Vocals in the mix now too, and liked catching her work in full-band mode. Sounded huge. Dug Prison as always and a minimal, new-to-us Stiff Curls

Love this illustration by Moses Lee that @brightwalldarkroom.com paired with Lindsey Romain's new piece on 'All the President's Men' www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/05/27/a...

Saturday at @mamatriedbk.bsky.social in Brooklyn — Philly’s Emily Robb (with a killer band), Philly’s Stiff Curls, and some face-melters from NYC’s Prison (free! 4PM start)

Have shared this before, don't know why I know about it: A 1974 full-page Southern Comfort ad that ran in Ebony feats./spotlights Chicago Black Jazz label ensemble The Awakening hanging out with a model and some airline employees. "Each guest was served *five* cocktails" is an insane happy hour

In our neck of the woods, the @thelotradio.com continued to be a pillar of the community last night, bringing the Knicks to the people

Art Deco emerged in the work of furniture designers, decorators, jewelers, illustrators, and architects—hundreds of Deco buildings were built in the Bronx. For the artists creating flyers for hip hop's earliest parties, Art Deco design didn't go unnoticed www.dominicumile.com/blog/phase-2...

Bronx-born flyer artist and iconic graffiti artist PHASE 2, now recognized for having invented “bubble letters,” drew on Jack Kirby comics and the design flourishes associated with Art Deco, too eyeondesign.aiga.org/in-the-late-...

Dance music scholar Tim Lawrence wrote in 2013 that Bronx discotheques “were incubators for early rap” and that “disco/dance and hip hop/rap DJs drew on the same pool of funk, soul, uptempo R&B and imported records” www.timlawrence.info/articles2/20... #rap

While coming of age in the Bronx, it would have been difficult for Buddy “The Flyer King” Esquire and his friends to ignore the neighborhood's elegant and imposing Art Deco buildings—White notes that Esquire eventually called his style "neo-Deco"

Zachary actually took a *good* photo here compared to mine but seconding this—exited the first of the mighty Sloppy Heads’ 2026 @mamatriedbk.bsky.social residency quite sweaty but very pleased. Backyard beers + secret Yo La Tengo set in one of NYC’s best venues? Pretty great night