Sergio García Sánchez’s “Sudden Shower”

“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.