Both based in New York, these two artists have one thing in common: they take the front pages of The New York Times as a starting point for their artistic research.
Sho Shibuya, inspired by the sunrise he looked at every morning from his window during the lockdown in April 2020, began to paint it using the front page of The New York Times as a canvas.
Lorie Novak has been doing meticulous work of archiving and cataloging the covers of The New York Times since 1999. Currently in her studio she has collected over 8,000 front page sections of The Times and has divided them into categories suggested by the photographs that appear above the fold.