KADIR NELSON FOR THE NEW YORKER + A SHORT EXTRACT FROM MY UPCOMING PAPER ON RETROSPECTIVE AFRO-SARTORIALISM

To celebrate its ninetieth anniversary, the next issue of The New Yorker will come out in nine different covers. Each one was handed to an artist with the task of re-imagining the iconic drawing, showing a gentlemen with the beaver hat and monocle (a.k.a.Eustace Tilley), that appeared on the magazine’s first cover of February 1925. One of the nine covers is an oil painting by Kadir …