Maira Kalman

"Maira Kalman," says curator Hiroko Tanaka in a catalog brochure of the artist's 1989 exhibition at Ginza Art Space in Tokyo, "your pictures are so crazy that everyone wants to hug them."

Cherie Louise Turner: Maira Kalman at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: A Life as Art Cherie Louise Turner 2010

Francois Dischinger for The Wall Street Journal Maira Kalman Artist, writer and inveterate collector Maira Kalman lives and works in Greenwich Village, maintaining her painting and design studio just a few floors below her apartment.

In My Home Office: Maira Kalman 2011

That goes for his adult books as well, and, we presume, for Why We Broke Up, the young adult book he is publishing this fall with the illustrator, Maira Kalman, with whom he has partnered before, to gorgeous results.

Jenny Rosenstrach: Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List Jenny Rosenstrach 2011

That goes for his adult books as well, and, we presume, for Why We Broke Up, the young adult book he is publishing this fall with the illustrator, Maira Kalman, with whom he has partnered before, to gorgeous results.

Jenny Rosenstrach: Daniel Handler's Summer Reading List Jenny Rosenstrach 2011

For the latest edition, Pollan teamed up with the talented artist Maira Kalman to bring a down-home, earthy feeling to the book.

Laura Klein: Michael Pollan Has Some Food Rules to Live By Laura Klein 2011

This month he releases an updated edition of "Food Rules" The Penguin Press with wry illustrations by Maira Kalman.

The Omnivorous Michael Pollan 2011

Maira Kalman's faux-naïf sets and costumes are as barnyard American as their subject is backwoods Slavic.

Mark Morris And His Joy of Text Robert Greskovic 2011

On Friday, the traveling exhibition "Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations of a Crazy World" opens at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, providing the first definitive survey of more than 30 years of her paintings, drawings, photography and textiles.

In My Home Office: Maira Kalman 2011

And I'm a big fan of all of Michael Pollan's Food Rules especially when illustrated by Maira Kalman.

Maria Rodale: The "Nothing White" Diet Maria Rodale 2012

Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman in San Francisco Mr. Handler who as Lemony Snicket wrote "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and illustrator Maira Kalman have collaborated on "Why We Broke Up," a well-reviewed novel of teen love and a box full of memories.

Ideas Calendar: Jan. 28-Feb. 3 2012