Yes, They Did
This week, the political pranksters known as The Yes Men perpetrated their latest elaborate joke in New York City. Almost a million newspaper readers were handed The Yes Men’s satirical version of the New York Post, featuring the banner headline “We’re Screwed!”; the rest of the paper included additional absurdist twists on the stories of [...]
Made Up
For its recent seasonal promotional campaign, M•A•C Cosmetics turned to faculty members Maira Kalman (MFA Design Department) and Marilyn Minter (MFA Fine Arts Department) for unusual approaches to using makeup. The two artists each created new artworks using eye liners, eye shadows and lipsticks from the company’s fall line as their media, resulting in uncommon images [...]
Pro Shows
SVA’s fall 2009 semester officially begins after Labor Day, but the College’s slate of professional exhibitions will begin rolling out a week ahead. On Monday, August 31, the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, is opening the doors on “Milton Glaser’s SVA: A Legacy of Graphic Design,” a 50-year retrospective of nearly [...]
