Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture, Today is the first installment of a serialized novel by Steve Stern, titled ‘The Frozen Rabbi.’ The story tells how a ninteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town is encased in a block of ice, and turns up in the basement freezer of a twenty-first-century Memphis home. The art director, Len Small, asked me if I’d do some drawings to accompany the text. The book is a great read, and they’ll be running a drawing a day for about two months. I really like how the idea of a serialized novel is being revived online.

There was no way to avoid the ghost of Ben Shahn on this one.

The LA Times asked me to make some drawings during rehearsal of the  Los Angeles Ballet . The company was working on a program of three George Ballanchine ballets, “See the Music, Hear the Dance.”
It was a real privilege for me to have a chance to observe these wonderful dancers up close in their rehearsal studio in West LA. I could feel the energy in the room the minute I arrived, and it was clear that I was watching artists perform at a very high level. I also learned why visual artists have drawn and painted dancers so often throughout history; even when dancers are at rest, they seem to be striking poses that exude elegance and strength.