For generations, this children’s game has helped settle some profound conflicts. So I’ve created a few additional hand gestures that might be helpful for our representatives in Washington.
It’s the Art Biennale this week–time for me to experience the world’s most romantic city during rush hour.
One of the government’s most powerful agencies is sending sinister messages through its logo.
This is what happens when the taxman and the Easter Bunny meet.
Mitt Romney sure seems to be running; Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty are probably running, too. Palin may run as well, and Obama will run no matter what. Should I?
From the Abstract City archive: An artist’s attempt to create a universe of cookies for the holidays.
From the Abstract City archive: One man's unhappy encounters with the laws of physics.
From the Abstract City archive: A visual diary documenting a flight from New York to Berlin (with a layover in London).
From the Abstract City archive: A family's losing battle with a plague of, the evidence suggests, goblins.
From the Abstract City archive: Getting there from here: one artist maps out the most accurate routes for all occasions.
From the Abstract City archive: An artist's personal weather predictions for the coming year.
From the Abstract City archive: Autumn leaves take some strange turns.
From the Abstract City archive: Getting a good night’s sleep is more complicated than one would think.
From the Abstract City archive: The power, using household objects, to affect the outcome of elections and Super Bowls, must be used wisely.
From the Abstract City archive: Working with woven paper, the artist examines his own history with the Berlin Wall.
From the Abstract City archive: An artist reviews a sad history of entanglements.
From the Abstract City archive: An artist’s daydream in a roomful of his kids’ toys leads to a view of New York you’ve never seen.
From the Abstract City archive: All New Yorkers develop tricks that allow them to stay ahead of the pack in daily life. Here I offer some of mine in a couple of handy charts.
From the Abstract City archive: Fine art can be a refreshing, though problematic, source of design inspiration.
Abstract Sunday mirrors Christoph Niemann's illustrations for The Times Magazine and is an archive of Abstract City, his Opinion column, which ran from 2008 through early 2011.
Niemann's work has appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired and American Illustration and has won numerous awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club and American Illustration. He is the author of many books, among them “The Pet Dragon”, which teaches Chinese characters to young readers, “I LEGO N.Y.” and, most recently, “SUBWAY.” It is based on “The Boys and the Subway,” the first entry of the Abstract City blog. After 11 years in New York, he moved to Berlin with his wife, Lisa Zeitz, and their three sons. You can also find him on his Web site christophniemann.com or on Twitter @abstractsunday.
