In celebration of their 154th anniversary, our friends at The Atlantic shared a photo of their first cover, from November 1857. The difference between that image and the very different design the magazine is rocking these days sparked our curiosity about what some of today’s best-loved and most widely read publications looked like in their infancy. After the jump, we’ve rounded up debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to Spin. We have to admit, some of them really surprised us: Who knew People started off so classy? Or that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s baby was TV Guide‘s first cover model? Journey with us through media and design history after the jump.
Hey. This conversation isn’t going to be easy, so why don’t you take a seat? We understand as much as the next guy how fun it is to poke around on ridiculous Charlie Sheen websites and tell everyone you know that you’re “WINNING, DUH!,” but we’re starting to worry about you. Charlie Sheen is a powerful drug (just look at what it did to Charlie Sheen the person), and it’s starting to take over your life. It’s time to make a change.
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Eighty-two years ago today, Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While the pop-art icon passed away in 1987, his legacy is still going strong. We’re toasting to Warhol’s memory with highlights from The Andy Warhol Museum‘s official chronology, as well as Warhol’s own writings. As the artist himself once wrote in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” We couldn’t agree more.
You might think we be exhausted of contemporary art by now, after the Armory Show and Whitney Biennial and the beaucoup amazing museum exhibitions currently on view in New York. And you would be wrong. Instead, we’re pleased to present a portfolio of six contemporary artists working around the world, courtesy ofFlaunt magazine. Issue #107 explores the images and issues surrounding the sculpture of Diana Al-Hadid, performance art by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, outsider art by Jim Shaw, and more. Follow along in our slideshow of art featured in the issue, and meet the six artists after the jump.
It’s time for the onslaught of “2008 Person of the Year” awards, and we have no doubt that most will go to the dude who tore down racial barriers and led the most effective grassroots campaign in recent history.
But there’s one list whose nominees are a bit closer to our hearts, at the very least because we owe half our content to them (not to mention most our TiVo space). I Want Media has released their “Media Person of the Year” nominations, and it predictably includes foxy girl-next-door Tina Fey, as well as the only reason to watch cable news, Rachel Maddow. Titans Arianna Huffington, Eric Schmidt, and Rupert Murdoch also made the cut, alongside Twitter’s titans-to-be Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and Evan Williams.
, “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” We couldn’t agree more.
