Paintings and Drawings by Maira Kalman’s Light Up New York’s Jewish Museum

NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- You may think you’ve never heard of Maira Kalman, but you have. In 1981 her doodles appeared on the cover of a solo record by Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne and she is the author of a dozen children’s books, some featuring the poet-dog Max. For people who number their weeks by the arrival of a new New Yorker, Kalman is most famous for the New Yorkistan map that appeared on its cover in December 2001 and, for the first time in months, made people smile. The cartoon map, produced with Rick Meyerowitz, bestows vaguely Central Asian names on the tribes and regions of New York: Taxistan in Queens, Pashmina on the genteel Upper East Side. Now this map and dozens of other charming paintings and drawings are on view at New York’s Jewish Museum. It’s the last stop of “Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy

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