Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art”

For the cover of the August 10, 2026, issue, the painter and graphic novelist Eric Drooker depicted the Guggenheim Museum as a cool clearing in a forest. “I grew up amid Manhattan’s monotonous grid and found the endless boxes, aligned along strict perpendiculars, overwhelming. As a child, the Guggenheim’s round form was my oasis,” Drooker said. “In a hectic, crowded metropolis, it was a breath of fresh air, a return to nature.”

For more covers featuring the city’s museums, see below:

“January 24, 1970,” by Charles E. Martin

“Modern Life,” by Sergio García Sánchez

“Chiaroscuro at the Met,” by Victoria Tentler-Krylov

Find Eric Drooker’s covers, cartoons, and more at the Condé Nast Store.