The Art of The New Yorker: the 80-year-old magazine "is the only remaining wide-circulation publication that still relies on freestanding illustrated covers.".(Museums Today)

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YOU MAY NOT be able to judge a book by its cover, but the reverse is true for a magazine. A magazine's over broadcasts its personality and the rest of the issue backs it up. A fascinating new exhibition, "The Art of The New Yorker: Eighty Years in the Vanguard." features 63 illustrators' more than 130 original works of art created for the covers of the venerable New Yorker, from the magazine's launch in 1925 to today.

The New Yorker is the only remaining wide-circulation publication that still relies on freestanding illustrated covers. Each week, readers eagerly anticipate the arrival of the latest issue and the art on...

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