Light snacks and soft drinks provided; cash bar.
Price:
Members free.
$35, includes Museum admission
A special evening program celebrating all things MAD. Join co-curators Stephanie Haboush Plunkett and Steve Brodner for an introduction to What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine with a discussion on the organization of the show and select highlights. Rediscover the magazine that defined a generation or see it for the first time.
Steve Brodner, Exhibition Co-Curator
Steve Brodner is today’s foremost satirical illustrator and caricaturist. Acclaimed in the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the editorial idiom, he is a regular contributor to The Nation, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. Brodner’s art journalism has appeared in most major magazines and newspapers in the United States, such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Mother Jones, Harper’s, and The Atlantic. His newsletter, This Week, can be found daily at stevebrodner.substack.com and weekly in The Nation. Norman Rockwell Museum presented an exhibition of his work in 2008 titled Raw Nerve: The Political Art of Steve Brodner.
Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Exhibition Co-Curator
Stephanie Haboush Plunkett is the Chief Curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum and the organizing curator of many exhibitions relating to the art of Norman Rockwell and the field of illustration. She leads the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the first scholarly institute devoted to the study of illustration. Her recent publications include Leo Lionni: Storyteller, Artist, Designer; Tony Sarg: Genius at Play; Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School; and Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911 to 1973.
