Cover Story: The Petraeus Affair
The media can’t ignore a good sex scandal, and the Petraeus affair, with its spycraft, the “other other woman,” twins, and two four-star generals, is a gift that has not stopped giving. Artists readily offered cover ideas to the magazine. Barry Blitt sent the one that we ended up using for next week’s cover, “Camouflage.”
“The Petraeus scandal has been hard not to follow,” Blitt says. “So much about it seems odd—from the expanding cast of characters, to the strange timing—so soon after the election, and right before the Benghazi hearings…. And the mix of love and war—it’s the stuff of fiction. Camouflage felt like a nice metaphor to use, and, graphically, it’s quite pleasing to render.”
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/11/cover-story-love-and-war.html?printable=true#ixzz2CUdLPk3Q
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