Reservoir Dogs for The New Yorker Going down to the reservoir in Central Park at 6 AM to get some shots. All the people here were there. A fun piece; no politics, no angst, just a scene. Like a fashion shoot. PS: Prints are available at cafepress.com/Brodner In this week’s is the Nancy Franklin review … Read more
Protests have been sparked across the Muslim world by civilian killings in Eastern Afghanistan on Dec. 27. The Times of London reports that 8 of them were schoolchildren. For the first time the Afghan government is trying to hold the US responsible for a specific civilian atrocity. Why doesn’t this register here, I wonder? The … Read more
Dick Cheney seems to have a kind of Tourette’s’s problem, where he blurts out ugly words about Obama for no reason other than perhaps a medical one. He has Politico on speed-dial and just erupts. The latest is his familiar terrorphobe tune, this time about Yemen. True: we and the world have a problem. It’s … Read more
Once, in public, I got to tell David some of the reasons why we hold him in such high esteem. I mentioned how his work combined many tasks at once and was masterly in all of them. That he, better than anyone in our times, could tell a larger story within the confines of a … Read more
Tonight my thoughts are with David, his family and the greater family of artists to whom he was the pater familias. The finest caricaturist of, in my view, the entire 20th century and a piece of this one. And a very warm, generous human being. I’ll have more to say soon. For tonight some images … Read more
