Out today! I am very happy to share my new book, WOMEN HOLDING THINGS. A love song to women. And at times everyone. (As exhausted as we are from holding everything.) Hold on. -MK
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“100% of proceeds from my new limited edition booklet, BED, will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds”
~ Maira Kalman
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When Sara Berman’s Closet opened at The Met, my mom and I stood on the museum steps handing out these cards to visitors from Japan. “Who is Sara Berman? The Apostle of Simplicity.”
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Apple and Ikea are some of the more than 400 companies that have withdrawn, at least temporarily, from Russia since it invaded Ukraine, leaving shuttered stores across the country.
https://t.co/WYiE1JKfIr
Gorbachev once did a TV commercial for Pizza Hut. Now the Hut and more than 400 other major Western companies, some with long history in Russia, have pulled out. Here’s a partial list. @AlexTKalman@tonydeluxxx@maiarcoleman
https://t.co/gtJxnoUs3S
Some books have already been made. Other books are yet to be. This particular book, from the hand and minds of David Byrne, and the other hand and minds of Alex Kalman, comes out today. The only way you can enjoy it is if you have it. To get it, walk into a bookstore. Enjoy.
NEW VIDEO
A boxer. A singer. A journalist. Three young women found success in Kabul, Afghanistan. When the Taliban took the city, their dreams were shattered. Watch here:
https://t.co/gLKJDLAbvU
Darling Baby – artist @MairaKalman's painted serenade to attention, aliveness, and the vibrancy of seeing the world with newborn eyes https://t.co/Mw25NdYsCS
1 in 3 Americans knows someone who has died from Covid-19. Millions are grieving, a scale of loss almost inconceivable a year ago. I spoke to people around the country who’d lost someone — mothers, husbands, grandparents, sons. Here are their stories: https://t.co/mcXlAhI1w2
@bertussisMD Dear Dr. Bertusis. I run an org called @mmuseumm. We collect, exhibit, and publish small objects that reveal the largest aspects of our humanity - a lyrical form of object journalism. I would love to discuss including this incredible note for public exhibition. Can we discuss?
"You might think, ‘That’s not something that you can write a song about.’ You could try, and people have done such things, but it generally does not succeed." David Byrne on the medium for the message. https://t.co/dDRmql4xmu
Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor in the Oval Office. @alextkalman on the importance of this small moment for the life of a democracy: https://t.co/6IgI0LK3Em
OUT TODAY! AMERICAN UTOPIA, a new book, a poem, made with @DBtodomundo
“American Utopia book argues for the reincarnation of hope in the American Project” - NPR.
“A comforting work of art in troubled times” - Kirkus Reviews