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| Chris Ware, House Divided, 2022 |
Chris Ware created
The New Yorker's July 4th cover. In
House Divided, Ware updates a 1961
Saturday Evening Post cover illustration by John Philip Falter, now in the George Lucas collection.
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| John Philip Falter, Sunday Gardening, 1961 (used as July 1, 1961 cover of Saturday Evening Post). George Lucas Collection |
Falter's illustration was more about class than politics per se. Ware told
The New Yorker that his picture represents "an uncompromising moment of nonconsensual reality" and the sense that "something very, very, very bad is about to happen
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Comments
Civil wars in families are the worst.
I'm still anxious to see the Lucas museum and probably will find its collections requiring more time to go through than, by comparison, a lot of the avant-garde material at places like MOCA or the Broad.
Beyond that, the Ma Yansong design of the Lucas probably will have characteristics reminiscent of the Peter Zumthor design of LACMA. Or visa versa. But LACMA's director still should have worked harder to modify the 1965-1986-era campus, if only to be both more transparent and ethical, and also more budget conscious.
But all of this may be moot if the political angle reflected in those magazine covers causes the house of cards to collapse.