Maira Kalman

A Yankee’s Southern Tour

Arts, Culture & Media

New York artist Maira Kalman had virtually never been west of the Hudson. This summer she needed to clear her head, so she headed down south to see new sights and smell new smells.

Stingy Brims and a Beaded Bunny

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The promise and shame of America in Jefferson’s Monticello

Global Politics

For the Love of Lincoln

The World

The Little Fireboat That Could

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The World

Walking with Maira Kalman

Arts, Culture & Media

The artist and illustrator Maira Kalman has produced countless magazine covers, written a dozen books for children, and produced a great visual blog for the New York Times site. The first museum survey of Kalman’s work has been traveling the country and it’s up now at New York’s Jewish Museum. Kalman gets many of her […]

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Monticello

Arts, Culture & Media

Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked by slaves, some of them Jefferson’s own children. Today his white […]

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Maira Kalman travels country to fall back in love with America

Arts, Culture & Media

We end our week-long series by talking with artist and writer Maira Kalman. She is the author of ‘And the Pursuit of Happiness.’

Monticello

This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions. Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked […]