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About Misty EricsonMisty Ericson holds a BA in English & Comparative Literature from San Jose State University, California, and an MA History of Art from University of Leeds, UK. In addition to her work on HerCircleEzine.com, which she founded in 2005, Misty enjoys painting in her studio and restoring her home in the English countryside.
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.
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
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.
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.”
“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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Young Jean Lee: Untitled Feminist Show: Lauren experiences nudist performance for the first tim... 
Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: A Re-Discovery that Helped Preserve African-American Culture:
by Shana Thornton
Sometimes friendships just h... 
It never failed to surprise her when new places looked like the old ones. Strip malls filled with the same chain restaurants and department stores, landscaping cultivated with an eye for the bland and placeless. The world was a blur of identical billboards and drive-thrus. She found you really needed to look to find the heart of a city. She became an anthropologist of the local, studying the quietly-kept souls of places. Fortunately, participant-observation was a viable option for fieldwork, because she couldn’t just sit on the sidelines while the locals came to play, came out to embody their home.