The Sept. 1, 2008 New Yorker Cover is Shallow and Reprehensible
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
The image is “Object of Desire” by Ana Juan and adorns the Style Issue, that sartorially themed edition in which the New Yorker inflates to InStyle-like proportions, weighed down by a glut of ads from the likes of Prada, Saks Fifth Avenue, Banana Republic, Gucci, Rolex, American Express, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabanna, and Cartier.
Typically lending her services to the illustration of children’s books, Ana Juan here provides her mastery of subtlety by showing us a cat eyeing a feathery, canary-like shoe inside of a birdcage. Object of desire. Get it?
Heavy-handed enough for you?
I haven’t been this disappointed in the cover of a periodical since the August 25, 2008 Newsweek.
What Bush got right? I had expected to open the magazine up to find blank pages.
Anyone not outrageously offended by the New Yorker’s poorly timed usage of Ana Juan’s “Object of Desire” for their cover has clearly not read Dana Thomas’s Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.
Maybe next week’s New Yorker cover will be a hurricane joke.
Miners used the canary in the cage to warn ‘em if the poison gas was creeping up to inspire a dirt nap. Perhaps there are layers, oh subtle Authwhore, that you are missing. The object of desire might foretell our impending Doom. Cats may covet really sexy footwear. The objects of our desire may smell like a dirty tranny foot (i.e. we may desire transexual experiences).
On the other cover there, Bush led a dramatic presidential vacation initiative. Restoring time off to the oval office may be his greatest contribution to history.
I am shockingly positive this morning, huh?