Chances are, when an art world big shot dabbles in cover design, something curious happens. Last year, Superflat art superstar Takashi Murakami covered POP Magazine, flinging a 28-year-old Britney Spears back into a school daze à la fuzzy lightning and manga-inspired styling. It was very awkward, yet gloriously so. Even though Damien Hirst can’t ever resist slapping his “signature” butterflies on everything, this year he had said “signature” butterfly tattooed on a most intimate region of a model volunteer for Garage Magazine. From vintage Dalí Vogue work to Chris Ware’s critical, brilliant and ultimately rejected Fortune cover, here are just some of the arty covers out there for you to flip through. Happy browsing!
Takashi Murakami x Britney Spears for POP Magazine
The 50 Albums Everyone Needs to Own, 1963-2013
Incredible Reading Rooms Around the World
A Brief Survey of Naughty Public Art
The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Ben Affleck
43 Great Tina Fey Quotes for Her 43rd Birthday
