Edel Rodriguez illustrates the downfall of just about everything we’ve ever held in high esteem for this week’s Time Magazine.  “In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it's General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media — has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both.” (more)

This year, the SI celebrates its 52^nd year of exhibiting the best that illustration has to offer.  Congratulations to the 21 ispotters whose work was chosen for the Advertising and Institutional show, many with multiple pieces.  Here are a few samples of their outstanding work. (more)

The March issue of the Atlantic features work by two ispotters. (more)

“Here | There” at Gallery Nucleus is Edel Rodriguez’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, featuring a collection of over 40 new paintings, drawings, assemblages, and sculptures. Influenced by the culture and myths of his native Cuba, along with American pop culture, Edel’s work deals with narratives about race, violence, mortality, and cultural displacement. With an emphasis on process, his work utilizes materials such as coffee, sugar, cedar, cotton, leather and ash. (more)

This Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review section provided a genuine treat for fans of illustration. (more)

Edel Rodriguez’s image for the Letters column of the NY Times is both a call to action and a fervent expression of hope.

Go here for a list of ways to help via international aid organizations. (more)

Edel Rodriguez visually realizes the manic intellectual world of mid-20th century writer Arthur Koestler for a book review in the December issue of The Atlantic. Koestler, says the article, was written off as "a much afflicted scribe of his time, greedy for pleasure, haunted by guilt, who enjoyed a short vogue and was then forgotten." (more)

Edel Rodriguez has illustrated a biography (by Jonah Winter) of our newest Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, for children ages 4-8. Written in English and Spanish, the book describes Sotomayor's urban childhood as well as her adult accomplishments.