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MAIRA KALMAN (1949-) & RICK MEYEROWITZ (1943-) "Map of the World by Me (Stable Genius)."
Illustrated map that appeared in issue #07/2019 of the Berlin letterpress magazine P98a PAPER published by Erik Spiekermann (Berlin, 2019) and reprinted as the November 2020 calendar page in The American Bystander. Watercolor, pen and ink. 270x425 mm; 10 1/2x16 3/4 image, on 15x21-inch sheet. Signed "Maira Kalman & Rick Meyerowitz" in pencil, by each, lower right margin. Provenance: Collection of the artists.
The map was created over a weekend (January 12-14, 2018) by Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz in response to Donald Trump publicly calling certain countries "Shitholes." In the artists' words: "We knew right away we had to respond, and the logical thing for us was to make a map. We spent a day ping-ponging country names off each other, and sketching maps. It would be Trump's map, drawn by him, not us, and he'd think everyplace in the world he didn't own is a Shithole. The sketches and the names were so much fun you could hardly call it work, and the final map is one of the best things we've done together."
