The New Yorker style issue
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Once a year, the New Yorker descends into self-parody in order to sell expensive real estate to high-end advertisers and bump up issue sales. They call this the style issue, and I carried it around for a week befor I even opened it and man oh man is it a waste of time. They confront such complex problems as counterfeit handbags and where to shop in Dallas, TX while throwing in a couple of extra reviews of art and architecture. Not even the first 30 or so pages are free of commercial blight; music critic Sasha Fere-Jones pens a few words for ‘critic’s notebook’ reviewing the viral marketing campaign for the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album, which he refers to as an artform.
I don’t mean to be closed minded here. My art is all about scavenging the pop culture wasteland, presenting what I find quth a mixture of reverence and disgust - that’s what I do. But where’s the disgust?
I will say though that whenever the New Yorker does a double issue, they run some pretty hilarious cartoons.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:19 am
SRSLY?! I fucking loved this issue. KARL LAGERFELD ARTICLE: DELISH.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:02 am
That’s true. The Karl Lagerfeld article was pretty good.