DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York Thursday, November 18, 6:00-7:00 pm

Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953, a symposium in connection with the exhibition of the same title.

The program will be followed by an opening reception for the exhibition.

Speakers include:
Jules Feiffer, award-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, teacher, and children's book author and illustrator who has had a remarkable creative career turning contemporary urban anxiety into witty and revealing commentary for over 50 years.
Joshua Brown, an accomplished cartoonist and the Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.  He was awarded a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for his next book project, Studies in the Visual Culture of the American Civil War.
James Sturm, the co-founder and director of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Sturm's award-winning graphic novels include The Golem's Mighty Swing and Adventures in Cartooning. His most recent graphic novel is Market Day. He also edited Denys Wortman's NY (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010).
Denys Wortman VIII, the artist's son.

This special program is offered at the members ticket price of $10 ($5 discount) to DART subscribers, but reservations are required: 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org. Just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email.

Three by Denys Wortman: I guess we're out of luck. I just heard that the boss is giving us a Christmas party - that means no bonus. (December 15, 1950); Modern day organ grinder with monkey (March 21, 1940); I'm dying to get down to 150 - that's when I can cross my legs. (September 19, 1936). Courtesy of The Center For Cartoon Studies and Denys Wortman VIII.

Denys Wortman Rediscovered: Drawings for the World-Telegram and Sun, 1930-1953 is an exhibition of original cartoon drawings made for the World-Telegram and Sun illustrating episodes of everyday life in New York City. Formally trained in art at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Wortman was among a new generation of social realists who believed in the artistic possibilities of modern urban life as a creative subject. The benches at Union Square, the tenement rooftops on the Lower East Side, and the stifling garment industry sweatshops provided the backdrops for his drawings that, in combination with Wortman's colorful characters, instill a sense of place that was distinctly New York.

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