Illustrator Christophe Niemann's drawings about his sons and the New York subway


	Illustrator Christophe Niemann's drawings about his sons and the New York subway
Lexica
7-2-2008 4:27 PM
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families, art, new-york-city, transit
Lexica says:
Funny and charming.
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Even though I know my way around rather well, I still have to defer to Arthur very often. Yet it seems people don’t trust the advice of a preschooler. They should.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/img/1B2AA81A-BD4E-4BC7-A42D-B0233A3DF5EF" alt="Christoph Niemann - The Boys and the Subway" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><SPAN class="caption">Arthur knows the map so well that when he got his first pair of subway-map socks, he pointed out with a chuckle that it had the Q still running as an orange line.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/img/7A4D5EC6-9296-42D4-8BC9-92727EAF18AA" alt="Christoph Niemann - The Boys and the Subway" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><SPAN class="caption">This morning he read the timetable for the No. 3 train and sang the stations to the tune of “Shalom Aleichem.”</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/img/A7EC6737-0463-46E6-8697-EBD53B7F211B" alt="Christoph Niemann - The Boys and the Subway" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><SPAN class="caption">The two happiest words Arthur and Gustav can hope to hear are “service changes.”</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/img/1AE4A304-A944-436E-9C25-FD9A4601A30B" alt="Christoph Niemann - The Boys and the Subway" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/"><SPAN class="caption">They see everything through a subway lens. When they fight about who gets which cup for their apple juice, they don’t refer to them by color.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8793C08B-CE0C-4859-878D-668D3405D9AE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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