Cartoons by Anthony Haden-Guest

A word about these cartoons:

Anthony Haden-Guest’s cartoons slice through the art world with the same sharp wit and charm that made him a downtown legend. A longtime observer of New York’s creative class, Haden-Guest turns his pen into both a scalpel and a mirror—skewering the absurdities of artists, dealers, and collectors while clearly loving the strange theater they inhabit.

His line work is loose but loaded, his jokes landing somewhere between the cocktail party and the confessional. Like the man himself, the drawings are equal parts insider and outsider—gleefully irreverent yet deeply informed. Haden-Guest captures the scene’s vanity, brilliance, and chaos with rare precision, distilling decades of art-world experience into single-frame punchlines that feel both timeless and uncannily now.

These cartoons don’t just make you laugh—they make you recognize yourself, or someone you know, in their sly and perfectly drawn reflections.

- Noah Becker