{"id":39066,"date":"2015-05-26T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=39066"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:07:06","slug":"maira-kalman-cooper-hewitt-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2015\/05\/26\/maira-kalman-cooper-hewitt-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Maira Kalman at the Cooper Hewitt Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I&#8217;m thrilled to have <a href=\"http:\/\/pamelawhiteartwork.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pamela White<\/a> writing about the Maira Kalman exhibition which is being held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. She mentioned the exhibition during a recent Skype chat, and I asked her if she would revisit it again to\u00a0share pictures of it with me (and you, dear readers!) And being the great sport she was, she immediately agreed! The below is her letter to me, sharing her thoughts and emotions as she explores the exhibition.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39066 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"418\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0429.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0429.jpg 418w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0429-334x448.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"418\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0431_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0431_2.jpg 418w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0431_2-334x448.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"418\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0432.jpg 418w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0432-334x448.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0433.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" 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width=\"560\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0467.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0467.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0467-448x248.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0470_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0470_2.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0470_2-448x317.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0471.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0471.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0471-448x307.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0472.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0472.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0472-448x343.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"535\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0473_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0473_2.jpg 535w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0473_2-428x448.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"417\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0476_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0476_2.jpg 417w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0476_2-334x448.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"429\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0480_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0480_2.jpg 429w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0480_2-343x448.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0501.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0501.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0501-448x408.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"560\" height=\"532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0505.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0505.jpg 560w, http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0505-448x426.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Dear Amy,<\/p>\n<p>I went back to the Cooper Hewitt Museum to document the Maira Kalman show for you and I\u2019m so happy that I did. It is really wonderful to return to an exhibit to look more closely, or even to notice things that you missed the first time around. In this case though, the show had a whole new dimension on my second trip.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery was full of live music, piano and oboe and Mozart\u2026 It was really magical to have the added surprise of musicians playing in the space. I realized that the gallery, this particular room, was originally the music room for the family of Andrew Carnegie who built and lived in this grand mansion with his wife and daughter at the turn of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. The museum, much like Maira\u2019s work is both elegant and playful.<\/p>\n<p>I have loved Maira Kalman\u2019s artwork for a long time. I think I first saw one of her children\u2019s books, maybe \u201cOoh-la-la (Max in Love)\u201d, or an illustration in the New York Times. Anyway, I am always so happy when she has made a new book that I can pour through, or when The New Yorker Magazine arrives in our mailbox with a lady in a pink hat on the cover (it&#8217;s Maira\u2019s work!) So when I stumbled upon this show a few weeks ago while visiting the newly renovated museum with my son I was delighted.<\/p>\n<p>To experience the show is like walking into one of Maira\u2019s books and strolling through each page, or hanging out with her while she deftly arranges objects that she loves and hearing her thoughts about the bon-bons wrapped in red and gold foil, or maybe the black stockings from France. In fact there is a lovely hand written text dispersed throughout the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>As I listened to Mozart and studied the objects it felt so natural that these things, an old metal bed, Abraham Lincoln\u2019s gold pocket watch, a velvet chair with a film of dancing ladies set into it\u2019s back belong in this music room. The objects tell a story about memory, and the passing of time. I thought of my own objects: things I lost, that great fall wool jacket. What ever happened to it? Small things with so much meaning like the perfumed red, silk carnation my son gave me the day we met when he was five and it was Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Maira has made two wonderful books to accompany the exhibit. One is for children and the other for adults. I would like to own them both. They are filled with beautiful images and words.<\/p>\n<p>The show is on view until <strong>June 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Maira Kalman and the exhibit you can visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhewitt.org\/events\/opening-exhibitions\/maira-kalman-selects\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>xo,<br \/>\nPam<\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Pamela:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pamelawhiteartwork.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pamela White<\/a> is a visual artist who works primarily with gouache and collage on paper. She enjoys the opaque richness of gouache and the pattern, texture and stories found in collage papers collected from many sources including old dictionaries, and placemats from airplane dinners. Her work is both narrative and decorative and spans both fine art and illustration. She is also an art educator who has taught in many New York City public schools, as well as some of the city\u2019s museums. She feels fortunate to have the wealth of New York\u2019s museums just a quick bike or train ride from home. She also draws inspiration from her everyday world and the discoveries found when traveling to new places. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and son and their 2 cats, and works at her studio in West Harlem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Maira Kalman at the Cooper Hewitt Museum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2015\/05\/26\/maira-kalman-cooper-hewitt-museum\/\" aria-label=\"More on Maira Kalman at the Cooper Hewitt Museum\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[123,173,203,81,75,92],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39088,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions\/39088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}