Video: Saul Steinberg
Mike Lynch Cartoons (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A selection of Saul Steinberg 's drawings, paired with music via shivabel .
Saul Steinberg
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The World According to Americans
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
This got big laughs in Berlin (despite the description of Europe) > Hat tip Prieur! > Not to be confused with Saul Steinberg’s New Yorker cover (March 29, 1976) “View of the World from 9th Avenue.”
Explore : Berlin
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Parsons: The New School for Design
ill-us-tra-shun (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... blind spots. JODY ROSEN unveils The Knowledge of London taxi drivers. JOEL SMITH maps the mind of Saul Steinberg. RICHARD MCGUIRE screens Fears of the Dark and more. The approach to this theme took a sideways view. I didn’t expect to hear about London taxi drivers but found the theme which linked the speakers together was the journey from A to B and how this reveal stories /...
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William Watson: Fix Toronto by taxing all of us? No, thanks!
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... major national media, headquartered there, subtly reinforce. The Canadian version of the famous Saul Steinberg poster of New York would show Yonge Street, Bay Street, University, Spadina, then at roughly the same scale, the Prairies, the Rockies, the Pacific Ocean, China. How validating to Torontonians, therefore, to learn that no less a world player than the OECD is now interested...
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Monday Morning Link Roundup: Aldo Buzzi, Alvin Levin, the Philosophy of Fiction, 'Life' Magazine's Bourdieu, and a Brooklyn 'New Yorker' Bookshelf
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Jonathan Taylor writes : A few overdue links to start the week—you're catching up already! Aldo Buzzi, who was a longtime friend and collaborator of Saul Steinberg, died October 9 . He was 99. "I was born just in time to see the Russia of Chekhov," he wrote in " Cheknov in Sondrio " ( The New Yorker , September 14, 1992), a Sebaldian wandering through time,...
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Exception to a Silly Rule
Ample Sanity (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... Here he discusses his scratchboard technique for Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice series. Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was one of America's most beloved artists, renowned for covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades and for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. "There is...