The New Yorker In Dog Years: 100 Years Of Covers At The AKC Museum Of The Dog

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114 – October, 2025

By Sarah Montague

The New Yorker magazine celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. When it started in 1926, the country was suspended between the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. Big cities were being seen as cultural hubs (and sometimes as perilous dens of iniquity), and there seemed to be a need for a magazine that was both urbane and accessible. Enter Harold Ross, a diamond-in-the-rough Midwesterner with an uncanny instinct for sass, great writers, and–from the beginning–great cartoonists and illustrators.

And since reflecting the New York scene means reflecting its appearance and lifestyle, it was inevitable that dogs would make their way into the frame. They weren’t only decorative, but expressed The New Yorker’s playful, ironic, and affectionate interpretation of the city. As the show’s press release quips, “Every year is a dog year at The New Yorker.”

Full disclosure: I have been reading and viewing the magazine almost since birth (how long is that? None of your business) and even persuaded the starchy dons of Cambridge University, where I was an undergraduate (how long ago? None of your business) to let me do my dissertation on the early years of the magazine. So, the exhibit was like a reunion with old friends.

The 45 images on display are part of the collection of Margaret Foxmoore, a photographer and friend of the museum. I traveled up to the museum, at 40th and Park, to talk with Alan Fausel, the museum’s curator and architect of this show.

The show celebrates the magazine covers’ many simultaneous functions and identities:

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