Sergio Garcia Sanchez “Sudden Shower”

“I wanted to recreate the moment when passersby got stuck in the rain,” Spain-based artist Sergio García Sanchez said of the Central Park cover of the November 10, 2025, issue. Garcia Sánchez had long been inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and here he turned to Utagawa Hiroshige.Sudden rain falls over Shin Ohashi and Ataki Bridge,” 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, sending chills up the viewer’s spine—a feeling that García Sánchez also tried to capture.