How Sho Shibuya, the artist behind those ‘New York Times’ sunrises, is making sense of the moment

It’s currently spring. The world is in a unique state of disarray. A virus is making headlines. In the fall, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will square off. If you have deja vu, you’re not alone—and it all has me looking to the artist who has painted the news for the past four years. In 2020, in the early days of COVID, Sho Shibuya’s printed edition of the New York Times brought daily death tolls, news of political bedlam, the murder of George Floyd, and all things beyond. “There were so...