Francoise Mouly

5 days ago | newyorker.com | Francoise Mouly

“The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge can only be experienced in motion,” the artist Christoph Niemann said, about his cover for the June 30, 2025, issue. Niemann’s celebration of the structure is a kaleidoscopic composition that plays with its cathedral-like thick towers and its thin mesh of wires. “My recommendation is a very early morning run. New York City doesn’t get much better,” he added.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Francoise Mouly

Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering significant amounts of taxpayer money while he’s at it.

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Francoise Mouly

Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is, delightfully, just a cat. In their first cover, for the June 16, 2025, issue, Aoki celebrates the animal’s playful and whimsical nature. They call their drawing, inspired by their experiences as a cat-sitter, a “meditation on power, love, and accountability (or the lack thereof).”

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Francoise Mouly

There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue features Hockney’s painting, from 2000, of Garrowby Hill, a high point in Yorkshire, England, where the artist grew up and returned to, in the late nineteen-nineties, when his mother was ailing.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Francoise Mouly

For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from eras past and present. “I wanted to pay tribute to the most celebrated cyclist in the nineteenth century—the first African American superstar of any sport—and to the epic six-day indoor cycling event in 1896 at Madison Square Garden’s velodrome, where Taylor competed,” Nelson said.