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Women Holding Things by Maira Kalman. PHOTO: HARPER These whimsical and poignant images show the emotional and physical “weight” women carry with them for much of their lives. Their accompanying texts ...
Ms. Kalman attended the High School of Music & Art, now LaGuardia High School, and studied the piano. She still plays, and her new book has a few classical “musical interludes” — that is ...
“It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She thanks her own mother for the gift of Margaret Atwood.
Artist Kalman (Women Holding Things) poignantly examines loss, death, and regret in this idiosyncratic collage of vignettes rendered in verse and still life paintings. Her father and uncles flee ...
They also make great gifts. Adding to that list: Still Life With Remorse, by Maira Kalman, the same artist who published Women Holding Things.
Toklas, who died in 1967, was being impersonated — some would say incarnated — by Maira Kalman, the painter, illustrator and author, whose newest book is a colorful reissue of “The Autobiography of ...
Kalman, 70, said she thought that growing up in a household where English was not the first language — she was born in Tel Aviv — laid open, like a book, the idea that language could be anything.