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April 12, 2007


Go, Read: Saul Steinberg Profile

imageI thought this was a first-rate, classic big-paper profile of the longtime New Yorker icon on the occasion of the "Illuminations: Saul Steinberg" exhibit currently showing at the Smithsonian Art Museum. Included are a physical description of the artist as "Groucho Marx condensed," a tribute to his facility, a talk about his lack of a place in art histories, an explanation for why that is, and, most humorously, Steinberg's opinion of the pineapple.
 
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