This week's cover of TheNew Yorker by Mark Ulriksen

This week we saw several familiar faces pop up in The New Yorker—and, no, none of them were Jorge Colombo. Edition-maker Mark Ulriksen, who has illustrated over ten covers for the magazine, is the man behind this week's cover. On it are movie characters grabbing from all sides at a golden trophy, a riff on The Oscars, which air this Sunday. As noted in his contributor bio, Ulriksen's work is currently included in the exhibit Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Cariacture, now showing at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Inside the magazine, art critic Peter Schjeldahl reviews the 2010 Whitney Biennial, writing that aside from "a couple of mutedly horrific sets of photographs," including Nina Berman's, "this Biennial seems intent not only on not offending aesthetic appetite but practically on sedating it."

After the Dust, Second View (Beirut), 2009, by Curtis Mann, as photographed by Gus Powell

In an audio slideshow of the Biennial posted to The New Yorker website, an image of museum-goers silhouetted against a piece by Curtis Mann is displayed while Schjeldahl says, "[2010 is] extremely audience friendly and absorbing in a way unusual for biennials and I think you'll be glad if you go to it."

The Biennial is up through May 30th, but don't dally, and head over to the Whitney to experience the exhibit in-person.