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Featuring The New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen in conversation with Artnet News National Art Critic Ben Davis. Since Emma Allen’s tenure began as The New Yorker’s fourth-ever cartoon editor in 2017, she has brought in a multitude of new voices. Though cartoons appeared in the magazine’s very first issue, in 1925, a lot has changed in the past century of cartooning and humor. Allen and Davis will discuss the many shifts in those fields from taste and style to following the lightning-speed news cycle.
Live event, Doerr-Hosier Center

Fee: $30. Tickets on sale Thursday, June 30 at www.aspenshowtix.com, or in person at the Wheeler Opera House box office.

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Emma Allen is the Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker, and edits humor on newyorker.com. She has been a member of the magazine’s editorial staff since 2012 and has written more than a hundred stories for the publication on a wide range of topics. In addition to editing cartoons for the magazine, and written humor and comics online, Emma works with The New Yorker Radio Hour to produce humor adaptations for the air, and alongside Condé Nast Entertainment to publish comedy videos.

Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013), which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019, and Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022). He has been Artnet News’s National Art Critic since 2016. His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin, Slate, Salvage, e-Flux Journal, Frieze, and many other venues. In 2019,  Nieman Journalism Lab reported that he was one of the five most influential art critics in the United States. He lives in Brooklyn.

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