Panel Discussion: The New Yorker's New York

The Katonah Museum of Art anticipates an evening of unparalleled fun and hilarity on Thursday, November 3, when Leonard Marcus, curator of Storied City: New York in Picture Book Art (now on view in the Project Gallery and Learning Center), leads a panel discussion with four New Yorker cartoonists: Roz Chast, Rick Meyerowitz, Roxie Munro, and Ed Sorel.  A wine reception begins at 7 and the panel discussion gets under way at 7:30pm.  Tickets are $15 members, $20 non-members.  Prepaid reservations are required and may be made by calling 914-232-9555 x0. The Katonah Museum of Art is located at 134 Jay Street in Katonah.

About the panelists:

Since she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has established herself as one of our greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern life.  Since then, nine collections have been published of Chast's work, most recently, Theories of Everything, a twenty-five year retrospective. Roz Chast is known for her cast of recurring characters - generally hapless but relatively cheerful "everyfolk." Her next book, What I Hate: From A – Z will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2011.

Rick Meyerowitz began contributing illustrated articles to the National Lampoon in the first issue of April 1970. He painted the poster for Animal House, and the magazine’s trademark visual, The Mona Gorilla, which has been called “one of the enduring icons of American humor.” Shortly after 9/11, Meyerowitz and Maira Kalman created the most talked-about New Yorker cover of this century, “NewYorkistan,” about which the New York Times wrote: “When their cover came out, a dark cloud seemed to lift.”

Roxie Munro is the acclaimed author/illustrator of more than 35 books for children (including EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures; Mazescapes; The Inside-Outside Books: New York City, which received the New York Times Best Illustrated Award). Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. She’s had fourteen The New Yorker magazine covers published. Recently created are two iPad apps: Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure, an animated interactive maze game, and Roxie’s Doors, a 3-D animated interactive app based upon the award-winning book, Doors. Munro’s latest book is Hatch!

Edward Sorel’s cartoons and satires have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Nation, and The New Yorker, for which he has produced 45 covers. He is the author/illustrator of several children’s books, including The Saturday Kid (2000) published by Simon and Schuster. A collection of his caricatures, Unauthorized Portraits, was published by Knopf in 1997. Literary Lives, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Sorel is the recipient of the George Polk Award for his satirical drawing.

Moderator Leonard Marcus is a renowned historian and critic and one of the children's book world's liveliest writers and speakers. His highly acclaimed books about children's literature and the authors and artists who create them include: Funny Business; Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way; Minders of Make-Believe; Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; A Caldecott Celebration; Side by Side; Pass It Down; Storied City; and The Wand in the Word.  He is one of the most trusted critics in the field. His book reviews appeared in Parenting magazine for 21 years and he now reviews for The New York Times Book Review, among other publications and writes “Sight Reading”, a regular column on illustrated books for The Horn Book.

New Yorker’s New York, will give participants a whole new slant on how they view New York and its inhabitants while celebrating the artists who reflect the city back to us with insight and humor week after week. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 914-232-9555 x0 or purchasing online at www.katonahmuseum.org.