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The New Yorker's 'welcome to congress' cover

The New Yorker's 'welcome to congress' cover. Source: New Yorker, Twitter

The cover of this week's issue of New Yorker is getting attention for all the right reasons.

Following last week's history-making US mid-term elections, which saw a record number of women and people of colour voted to Congress, the iconic magazine's cover artwork used water-colours and ink to encapsulate a spirit of change and diversity.

Created by longtime New Yorker illustrator Barry Blitt, the cover highlights the winds of change heading to Capitol Hill.
The moving artwork features Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who last week became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim-America congresswoman, and Sharice Davids, the first Native-American congresswoman.

With more women serving in Congress than ever before, artist Blitt said of his cover: “In all the rancor and madness of the past few weeks (hell, the past few years), it appears we’ve just lived through a nice moment."

Commenting on being depicted "busting through these doors", Omar promises to keep them wide open.

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Published 12 November 2018 3:10pm
By Samuel Leighton-Dore


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