There is nothing illusory in this tiny heaven.

March 7, 2017 7:12 AM

Before illustrator and writer Maira Kalman's And The Pursuit of Happiness was made into a book, it was a series of opinion pieces for the New York Times. Starting with Celestial Harmony, Kalman pursues happiness, hats, dogs, uncertainty, history, loss, and cake.

They can be read in any order, but this is how they originally appeared:
Celestial Harmony
Cherubim and Seraphim
Heaven on Earth
Still
Collecting Myself
Ich Habe Genug
Completely
The Impossibility of February
One Thing Leads To Another
Finale

Bonus material:
Kalman documents her trip to Obama's Inauguration in 2009: The Inauguration. At Last.

Maira Kalman Previously

posted by Mchelly (3 comments total)

Well, I'll just keep sitting here wearing a fabulous hat and eating lemon cake and thoroughly enjoying this thread by myself then.

Perhaps I will post more pictures of hats.

And cakes.

Also this good dog.
posted by Mchelly at 10:48 AM on March 7, 2017

Maira Kalman is a treasure.

Some years ago there was a wonderful exhibit of her work at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

Just the other week illustrator Lisa Brown gave a talk at CCA about collaboration and illustration and her husband Daniel Handler talked about how he did some books with Kalman -

And then this article showed up on Sunday in the times, about Maira's mother...
posted by gyusan at 12:20 PM on March 7, 2017 [2 favorites]

I love these - when the book came out I bought a bunch to give away. She's amazing.
posted by Miko at 7:40 PM on March 7, 2017