Emma Allen

On an art-fair rooftop, New York grade schoolers peddle refreshments to benefit art education in public schools.

An in-demand accompanist to comedians (Matteo Lane, Catherine Cohen, Matt Rogers), he now also performs solo, as his alter ego, Henki Skidu, with a magic rock around his neck.

His style was a tightrope walk of economy, achieving maximum hilarity with the fewest moves, and with the humblest materials.

The artist, who was first published in The New Yorker in 1962, never stopped marvelling at the miracle of a cartoon’s creation.

The editor, writer, publisher, and only subject of the sometimes weekly Jennifer Mills News considers stories such as “Woman Finds Hardboiled Egg in Purse.”

The artist futzes around in his Chelsea studio, where he keeps off-time clocks and fossilized dinosaur eggs, and discusses his redesign of the sculpture garden at the Hirshhorn Museum.

A collection of our most widely read humor pieces of the year.

The cartoonist—who depicted dogs, porch-sitters, mechanics, cave-dwellers, bath-takers, military men, yokels, and churchgoers—worked and lived with uncontainable self-amusement.

Benjamin Keating tours an exhibition of his sculptures, which combine bronzework with tiny trees, and recounts how he found an in with a secretive bonsai guy by bribing him with tomato sauce and fresh pasta.

Telling jokes to a New York audience is tough enough; two Brooklyn comedians have added exotic animals to the mix, with their new showcase, “Petting Zoo.”

Yvonne Pickering Carter was leaving her South Carolina home when the haulers tipped off a local gallerist to her works. Now she’s being exhibited in New York alongside Lee Krasner and Alma Thomas.

A short film by Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough helps viewers discover a new world.

The artist Fred Tomaselli spent the pandemic painting psychedelic designs and collaging over front pages of the Times—surreally mismatching headlines and photos, like the late Barry the Central Park Owl with the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal—now on display in a digital gallery show.

This year, you enjoyed jokes about the British royals, moms, cats, dating, Bill and Melinda, and, of course, cast-iron pans.

Thursday’s film première and discussion dig into Booth’s many decades of boisterous comic creations.

The ninety-year-old artist, once known for photo-realist works, dishes on Josef Albers (a bit of a letch), the Abstract Expressionists (sex-crazed), and Rodin (“a perv”), as she prepares for a new show.