The art of TIME
Nov 05, 2018
3 minutes
IN HIS 2015 BOOK, THE ARTIST JR ASKS, “CAN Art Change the World?” Artists see beyond walls, across divides, around corners. Through their eyes, we understand the world in new, clearer ways—which is why TIME since its founding has worked with great artists to create our covers, from Andy Warhol to Andrew Wyeth, Robert Rauschenberg to Ai Weiwei, Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Shepard Fairey. Fifty years ago, Roy Lichtenstein marked a series of heartbreaking assassinations with a TIME cover, “The Gun in America,” which now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
So how would an artist, one whose body of work explores the world’s
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