Sarah Beetson’s third exhibition, You Are Not What You Eat, explores society's preoccupation with body image and the rising global trend in eating disorders. The show sees Sarah collaborate with several fashion designers to create one-off wearable art, alongside a series of portraits and 100 Body Mass Index Badges made from original art. (more)

Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn presents Looking Out Looking In, an exhibition that brings together portraits by women artists which go beyond the surface of the face to seek an inner identity. The work ranges in scope from self-portraiture, to observations of people to whom the artist has little personal connection. (more)

Jason Mecier has a one man show of his topical mosaic portraiture opening this week at Ghetto Gloss gallery in LA. (more)

Allan Burch created this luminous, meditative portrait of Pope John Paul II as one of 16 illustrations commissioned by the University of San Diego's President's Report. (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)

Graham Smith combined his drawing skills with collage for this piece in Philadelphia Magazine. When the Philadelphia Inquirer fired Stephan A. Smith from the sports column he writes for them, he lawyered up and they had to hire him back. The Inquirer still pays him his $220,000 per year salary, but they refuse publish his column. (more)

Jerry Miller was contacted by Manhattan Media to illustrate the cover of City Hall Magazine recently. The story was a personality profile of Vito Lopez, a politician with real… character: the art direction was to think “The Godfather” or “Napoleon.” (more)

Rob Kelly created a vintage-feel portrait of actor Mark Ruffalo for this week’s Time Out New York. Ruffalo is promoting his new noir horror movie, Shutter Island, so Rob went with an austere, black-and-white vintage feel. (more)

This year, the SI celebrates its 52nd year of exhibiting the best that illustration has to offer. Congratulations to the 25 ispotters whose work was chosen for the Editorial and Book show, many with multiple pieces. (more)

Kathryn Rathke used simple line and negative space to create this complex portrait of John Cheever.  (more)