Emily Davidow

Four Sobering Facts About Women and Money:

1. 50% of single women ages 21 to 34 report that “at this time in their lives money is for spending not saving”
2. 55% agreed with the statement that “they were more likely to accumulate 30 pairs of shoes than $30,000 in retirement savings.”
3. Thirty million of America’s 40 million-plus boomer women will not be able to afford to retire, will fall below the poverty line, and will experience poorer health in their later years with limited aid from traditional safety nets.
4. The average age of widowhood in America is 55. Four out of five widows
   living below the poverty line had not been poor before their husbands died.

Four Empowering Insights About Money:

1. Most people don’t have a clue about money.
2. Things aren’t always what they seem.
3. Literally millions of people are intimidated by money matters.
4. After reading this book, you’ll know more than the vast majority of
   Americans.

Maira Kalman New Yorkistan T-shirt and early sketches at REMO General Store Remo’s offering a T-shirt and jigsaw puzzle version of Maira Kalman’s delightful “New Yorkistan” New Yorker cover. Check out the funny backstory and images of the map in progress from the original cocktail napkin sketch. Remo’s also doing some interesting social shopping experiments… [...]

Debbie Millman interviews Maira Kalman for Design Matters.

April is here, the thyme is short, and Google Book Search is awesome! I am loving the ability to download full PDFs of books in the public domain (like The Gardener collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore), navigate around the sections, search and see results highlighted within the text and purchase various editions. I’ve also [...]

One of my passions is to collect and sell indigenous religious antique artifacts. I once received a call from a New York City dealer telling me about a rare Ming Dynasty Buddha available at a very good price. He said he would send it to me with no obligations. When the package arrived, I opened [...]

LIVE from the NYPL MIRA NAIR & JHUMPA LAHIRI Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 7:00 PM Celeste Bartos Forum LIVE from the NYPL books $15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification Buy Tickets All LIVE from the NYPL events are general admission. Arrive early for best seat selection. Box [...]

(Check out his newest bad-ass camera recently profiled in the New Yorker.)In the evocative photo series Imaginary Encounters of the Dodo and Mauritius Island, Harri Kallio places carefully constructed models of adorable and extinct dodo birds back into their natural habitat, staging dramatic re-enactment of their lives based on eyewitness accounts, pictorial sources and physical evidence in museum.Mitch Epstein's haunting power plant looming over pastoral Raymond, West Virginia.The postapocalyptic global nomad fashions of Mary MattinglyDoug Aitken's FedEx mega-metropolis Plateau. (Which is presumably furnished with FedEx Furniture .)International Center of Photography1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd StreetNew York, NY 10036Map Phone: (212) 857-0000Artists featured include: Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Allora & Calzadilla, Wout Berger, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Patrick Brown, Catherine Chalmers, Stéphane Couturier, Lou Dematteis and Kayana Szymczak, Yannick Demmerle, Goran Dević, Mark Dion, Sam Easterson, Mitch Epstein, Joan Fontcuberta, Noriko Furunishi, Marine Hugonnier, Francesco Jodice, Harri Kallio, Vincent Laforet, Christopher LaMarca, An-My Lê, David Maisel, Mary Mattingly, Gilles Mingasson, Simon Norfolk, The Otolith Group, Sophie Ristelhueber, Clifford Ross, Thomas Ruff, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Victor Schrager, Simon Starling, Kim Stringfellow, Diana Thater and Wang QingsongMore to exploreEcotopia: The Second Icp Triennial of Photography And Video exhibition catalog by Brian Wallis, Edward Earle, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers and Joanna Lehan (Editor).Multimedia tour with curator Brian Wallace and review: “The Natural World, in Peril and in Its Full Glory” in the New York Times.

Nicola LopezExcerpts from the Flood II, 2005sixteen-color lithograph30 by 22 1/4 inchesEdition 10Collaborating printer, Leshoka Joseph Legate$1,500.00(05-327)————–Exit Art’s 2006 Benefit Portfolio is quite exquisite “trance border” theme. Orders must be received by November 15.Marina AbramovicSue DeBeerWilliam VillalongoGeorge CondoAdam HelmsJohn Newsom$5,000 pre-publicationLove Cecily Brown’s print for the 2005 Tantra series.Lower East Side Printshop featured exquisite new prints byEdward del RosarioSebastian BremerAmy ChanPaul Chan, prints from the Alternumerics suite, his brilliant experiments with font sets, rendered as truetype fonts and screensets.”Alternumerics (Sexual Healing/Shift for Harassment)” 2001 30″ x 40″Want to learn how to make prints, editions and artists books?

You can tell how much youlove someone by the amount of time you spend making their scrambledeggs.

I was checking out what’s new on Gretchen’s Happiness Blog and noted August was all about memento mori, remembering we will die.