“I wanted to re-create the exact moment when passersby are caught in the rain,” the Spain-based artist Sergio García Sánchez said about his Central Park cover for the November 10, 2025, issue. García Sánchez has long been inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and here turned to Utagawa Hiroshige’s “ Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake ,” from 1857, which was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1918. Hiroshige’s dramatic composition contrasting nature and civilization creates a sense of movement and immediacy, and sends a shiver down the viewer’s spine—a feeling that García Sánchez also tried to capture.

For more covers about rain in the city, see below:

“March 12, 1966,” by Arthur Getz

“November 8. 1969,” by Ronald Searle

“Rainy Day,” by Christoph Niemann

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