rDay Seven-Hundred-Fourteen: Downtown
Day: March 8, 2017
rDay Seven-Hundred-Fourteen: jamesa Fixes Things
Working on the broken tracked Jeep:
Bob Mankoff
For well over a decade, I prominently displayed this cartoon (along with the nearly-as-famous Peter Steiner “Nobody Knows You’re A Dog On The Internet” cartoon) on my workplace office entrance wall. Its creator, Bob Mankoff, is soon to retire as cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Learn more about Mankoff and see more of his great work in this New York Times piece.
Where Pointillism Really Started?
Most of us associate pointillism with the late 18th century movement in art history. But the practice of painting with dots of color may have originated much, much earlier, as scientists now believe, based on paintings found in cave dwellings used by people in what is now southwest France some 38,000 years ago.
