November 2011
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October 2011
22 posts
misterchu asked: Yes on Sylvia. If you have not read Janet Malcolm's slim volume on her (and it all) you might find it worth your time. Be well. MC
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Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze
Nov 4 – 30, 2011 SOMA
“Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze is a traveling survey of 117 artworks debuting at SOMArts before traveling to the Kinsey Institute which place the male form in a position of objecthood and reverse conventional hierarchies in the culture of display. The exhibition includes an extensive collection of male adoration, male impersonation and male appendages, as...
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“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
– Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler
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“I had a chance to either be classy, or be seen as someone gripping with white...”
– National Book Award un-nominee Lauren Myracle, whose novel about an anti-gay hate crime was booted off the list after accidental inclusion. (via vanityfair)
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“The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my...”
– Louise Bourgeouis
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Ready for your close-up? Photographer Taryn Simon →
alesiakaye:
Photographer Taryn Simon goes into microscopic detail to investigate her themes and tell some extraordinary human stories, she tells Sue Steward.
Taryn Simon’s marriage to film director Jake Paltrow explained the presence of his sister Gwyneth and friends Cameron Diaz and Stella McCartney at the opening night of her current Tate Modern show, but celebrity connections don’t come...
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The photographer Elle Muliarchyk grew up speaking half a dozen languages, from Czech to Vietnamese (her father was a diplomat and her mother was a journalist and a linguist), and during a brief career as a model she picked up some French and Italian. Her experience in the global village of fashion and her interest in languages come together in “Lips of Babel,” a series of mesmerizing close-up...
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“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain...”
– Thorbjorn Jagland, former Norwegian prime minister who heads the Oslo-based Nobel committee that chooses the winner of the $1.5 million prize.
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Nobel Peace Price Awarded to Activist Women
thepoliticalnotebook:
Nobel Peace Prize winners. From left to right: President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia (AP Photo); Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee (AP); Yemeni Tawakul Karman who heads the organisation Women Journalists Without Chains (AP).
They were awarded the prize for “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t let...”
– Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
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