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February 1, 2012 By Lauren Sardi
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.

October 17, 2011 By Caroline Palmer
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).

May 11, 2011 By Sarah Marilungo
BRUSSELS – Through July 21st, La Centrale Électrique of Brussels exhibits the first monographic exhibition in Belgium of the controversial and surprising African artist Jane Alexander.
UC Berkeley is running an exhibit Women at Cal, 1910-1915: When California Passed the Woman Suffrage Amendment, which examines the status of women on campus in this critical period.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) presents In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Spanning over four decades, the exhibition features about 175 works by forty-seven extraordinary artists.

February 1, 2012 fromOne World Cafe
In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”

April 22, 2011 By Frauke Ehlers from Femmage
“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out.”–Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?, 1898. In the mid-20th century, art was dominated by a rather formal language of abstraction. Minimalism, Formalism & Conceptualism made up the artistic mainstream. To call an art work decorative was to deride it.
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February 2, 2012 By Kate Robinson from InContext
Mule & Pear, New Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Listen to Rachel's One World Café podcast here.
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