Okay, not as far westwards as the De Young in San Francisco, but to the wilder reaches of Shepherds Bush to the Louise Blouin Foundation for the Louise Nevelson Dawns and Dusks exhibit.

And there were points when I wondered if we would be getting there at all, firstly when partner noticed that guttering was pulling away from the roof (eventually ( Read more... )

Major London exhibition LOUISE NEVELSON: DAWNS AND DUSKS
30 April - 14 June 2009!!! Wheeee.

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The Modern Records Centre at University of Warwick (in Coventry) is currently hosting an exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson's performance as Othello at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford on Avon.
Fifty years ago, after a long struggle, the great actor, singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson played ( Read more... )

Didn't know we still had these, given that the civil status of 'pauper' was eradicated in 1929: Lonelier lives lead to rise in pauper funerals

Round-table with seven women business leaders, organised by business editor Ruth Sunderland, discusses City culture, machismo's role in the crisis and how women can help bring about a resolution: and what we ( Read more... )

Vikings ripped off by fake swords:
Some Viking swords were among the best ever made, still fearsome weapons after a millennium. The legendary swords found at Viking sites across northern Europe bear the maker's name, Ulfberht, in raised letters at the hilt end. Puzzlingly, so do the worst ones, found in fragments on battle sites or in graves ( Read more... )

Kathryn Hughes on the history of the woman's magazine on which there is currently an exhibition at The Women's Library. Interesting, but I'm not sure I agree with the categorisation:
the home-making (Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, Prima) to the campaigning (Englishwoman's Journal, Spare Rib) by way of the liberating (the Freewoman, Cosmopolitan ( Read more... )

Okay, I very much doubt I am ever going to pick up a celebrity autobiography, but this comes as positively encouraging news:
Although the showbiz memoir is an ancient format, this season's rush of this-is-me books has felt fresh, partly because the people involved have waited until they had a story to tell. With the exception of the 32-year-old ( Read more... )

In the context of a discussion on another lj recently, mentioned that very occasionally I have met women who do that 'there's no knowledge but I knows it' assumption in discussion but that (unlike the perhaps rather more pervasive male equivalent) it seems much more inflected for age/class/gender. In fact thinking about this later I thought that I' ( Read more... )

Theme going on here:

Joan Bakewell explains why we need mature women on our screens:
One entire segment of the public - women over 55 - never see their like on serious programming. They may be part of the content - victims of crime, sufferers from disease or lottery winners, but they are never there as the professional equivalent of older men.

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To a lovely restaurant last night, for which I cannot find a website, at which I had a witty and delicious riff on the kind of thing one gets served a lot in Munich - in Munich you tend to get a lot of 'three hunks of pork, allegedly different cuts cooked in different ways but all tasting the same, with huge stodgy dumplings and sauerkraut'. This ( Read more... )