'Waves' : The New Yorker cover by Sempe'

 

“It’s an obsession,” Jean-Jacques Sempé says, of his cover for the new issue. “I would love to become a child on the beach once again. It may sound infantile, but that’s the feeling I long for: to be a child without care, taking in the immensity of the ocean and still feeling safe.”

 

Sempe’ has the distinction of doing more New Yorker covers than probably any other artist ( he has done more than 110 !)

 

' Krishi-Durga' : Tala Prattoy Durga Puja ( Calcutta ) 2025 - Installation about Indian farming and indigenous seed varieties

 

Love after Love - By Derek Walcott

 

What makes sense - By Carrie Newcomer

 

'The messenger of autumn' : By Paul Klee

 

Life :)

 

(Hidden) Visual art in The Economic Times :)

I am sure many readers of the Indian business newspaper 'Economic Times'  have noticed this very interesting thing that they do - every once in a while a news item is accompanied by a snapshot of a painting 

The painting usually has some sort of visual connection to the news it is set with - and the name of the work and the artist is mentioned typically on the right vertical edge.  

The range of artists they cover in this is very wide - e.g. in the  snapshot from 8 July 2025 that I have included below - they have covered a work by a very interesting (but not necessarily very widely known) Romanian painter,  Vasile Dobrian.  

I have always thought it is such a beautiful (and in a way hidden) feature. Very curious to know how it started and how they select these works :)