Women Power: Who Runs the World?

Who runs the world?  148 women, you can take as your role models. 
We have made a canon.  This is the thing that usually says which male artists, scientists, thinkers are necessary for the world. 
But not with us!  Let's start with the canon of women in Science:

• Florence Nightingale, a nurse, invents the visualization of data material.
• Getrude Belle Elion, pioneer of chemotherapy
• Hedy Lamarr invented the frequency hopping method in 1941.
• Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine, abbess, poet, composer, universal scholar
• Jane Goodall, a behavioral scientist, studied the behavior of chimpanzees.
• Josephine Cochrane invented the hand-operated dishwasher in 1872.
• Maria Sibylla Merian, natural scientist, and artist
• In 1947 Maria Telkes develops the solar heating system for single-family houses.
• Marie Curie, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911)
• Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist. Her research work made mobile faxes, tone dial telephones, solar cells and fiber optic cables possible.
• Tabitha Babbitt invented the circular saw in 1812.
• Ada Lovelace invented the first computer algorithm.
• Alice H. Parker developed an adjustable gas heating system in 1919.
  
• Theory and Politics
• Akiko Morimatsu and Mizue Kanno are fighting for better protection against the effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
• Angela Davis, civil rights activist, philosopher, humane scientist, and writer
• Asli Erdogan, publicist, author of the essay collection "Not even silence still belongs to us".
• Audre Lorde, writer, and activist
• Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Historian
• bell hooks, literary scholar and advocate of feminist and anti-racist approaches
• Betty Friedan, publicist
• Carola Stern, co-founder of Amnesty International Germany
• Christiane Amanpour, journalist, an international chief-correspondent for CNN
• Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist
• Elisabeth Bronfen, cultural and literary scholar
• Ellen DeGeneres, actress, presenter, comedian and author
• Emma Goldman, anarchist, peace activist, antimilitarist, atheist and feminist theorist
• Eva Illouz, sociologist
• Fatima El-Tayeb, historian and screenwriter
• Femen, feminist artists and protest group critical of the government founded in Kiev in 2008
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor of Literary Studies
• Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
• Grada Kilomba, author, psychologist, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist
• Hannah Arendt, political theorist, and publicist
• Hedwig Dohm, writer, and feminist
• Iris Marion Young, a political scientist
• Ijeoma Oluo, Author
• Joan Didion, journalist, and writer, author of "Das weiße Album" (The White Album)
• Judith Butler, philosopher, and political scientist
• Julia Kristeva, literary theorist, psychoanalyst, writer and philosopher
• Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, authors
• Laurie Penny, journalist, and author
• Lynn Hunt, historian
• Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State
• Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer, War Coverage
• Martha Nussbaum, Philosopher, and Professor of Law and Ethics
• Mary Beard, ancient historian, and feminist
• Mary Wollstonecraft, author, philosopher, and feminist
• May Ayim, poet, teacher and activist of the Afro-German Movement
• Michelle Obama, attorney, former First Lady of the United States.
• Naomi Klein, journalist, globalization critic and political activist
• Nellie Bly, journalist, "Ten Days in the Madhouse."
• Noah Sow, author, musician, label operator, activist, media critic, producer and artist
• Olympe de Gouges, revolutionary, women's rights activist, writer, playwright
• Petra Kelly, politician, peace activist and founding member of the Green Party
• Pierra Aiello, a politician, sits for five stars in the Italian Parliament
• Pussy Riot, feminist, government and church critical punk band founded in Moscow in 2011
• Rebecca Solnit, writer, journalist, essayist and cultural historian
• Rosa Luxemburg, theorist, and author
• Silvia Federici, scientist, lecturer, and Marxist radical feminist activist
• Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and feminist
• Simone Veil, politician, and former French Minister
• Tupoka Ogette, trainer, cultural expert
• Vandana Shiva, scientist, social activist and globalization critic
• Virginia Woolf, writer, "A Room Alone."
• Wendy Brown, a political scientist

Authors

Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World.

Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot

Alison Bechdel, "Fun Home - A Family of Drawn."

Anna Akhmatova, poetry

Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross.

Arundhati Roy, "The God of Little Things."

Astrid Lindgren, "Pippi Longstocking"

Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"

Azar Nafisi, "Read Lolita in Tehran"

Barbara Yelin, Irmina

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "More feminism! A Manifesto"

Christine Nöstlinger, "The Fire-Red Friederike"

Elfriede Jelinek, "The Piano Player"

Emily Brontë, "Storm Heights"

George Eliot, Middlemarch.

Grace Metalious, "Peyton Place"

Han Kang, "The Vegetarian."

Harper Lee, "Who's bothering the Nightingale"

Ingeborg Bachmann, "The Hourly Time"

Irmgard Keun, "The Artificial Silk Girl"

Jane Austen, "Emma"

Jeanette Winterson, "Oranges aren't the only fruit."

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.

Johanna Spyri, "Heidi"

Judith Kerr, "When Hitler stole the pink rabbit."

Margaret Atwood, The Story of the Maid.

Marge Piercy, "The Woman at the Abyss of Time"

Marguerite Duras, The Lover.

Marjane Sartrapi, "Persepolis"

Mary McCarthy, The Clique.

Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein"

Maya Angelou, "I know why the trapped bird sings."

Nino Haratishvili, "The Eighth Life"

Sylvia Plath, "The Glass Bell"

Suzanne Collins, "The Tributes of Panem"

Virginie Despentes, "Baise-moi - Fuck Me"

Wisawa Szymborska, poetry

Zadie Smith, "Show your teeth"

Art & Culture

Alice Guy-Blaché, film pioneer

Aretha Franklin, soul singer, songwriter, and pianist

Artemisia Gentileschi, painter

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, artist

Ava du Vernay, film director, producer and screenwriter

Beyoncé, singer

Carole King, composer, and singer-songwriter

Cher, singer

Cindy Sherman, photo artist

Coco Chanel, fashion designer

Edith Head, costume designer

Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer

Fanny Mendelssohn, composer

Fatima Begum, director

Frida Kahlo, painter

Georgia O'Keeffe, painter

Guerilla Girls, group of artists

Courtney Love, rock singer

Ida Lupino, Actress, Producer, Director, Writer

Jane Campion, Director

Jane Goldman, Screenwriter

Janis Joplin, rock singer

Käthe Kollwitz, graphic artist, painter, sculptor

Kathleen Kennedy, film producer

Kathryn Bigelow, director

Lena Dunham, director, actress, artist, writer

Lynne Ramsay, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist, researcher, filmmaker

Madonna, singer, songwriter

Marina Abramovic, action artist

Martha Argerich, pianist

Meret Oppenheim, Artist

Mira Nair, Director

Missy Elliot, hiphop superstar, and producer

Nina Simone, jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter

Pauline Kael, film critic

Pina Bausch, choreographer

Pipilotti Rist, video artist

Sofia Coppola, Director

Tazuko Sakane, Japanese director-pioneer

Tina Turner, singer

Tove Jansson, writer, comic writer, graphic artist, illustrator, and painter

Valie Export, media artist, performance artist, and filmmaker

Yoko Ono, artist, peace and human rights activist

Free Entrance at the Best Museums in Paris

Paris is undoubtedly one of world’s cities with the most important museums of historical and contemporary art and architecture.  Not only the recently opened, eye-catching feats of modern architecture in the world, the Louis Vuitton art museum, but dozens of outstanding, world-wide known places enchant locals and visitors alike. 


Get your Paris Pass
Free Metro Travelcard & Entry to 60+ Attractions 
It’s your all-in-one package and will save you time, money and stress, providing you everything you need to discover Paris!  

Examples of Paris Pass Benefits:
Free Entry to The Louvre Museum with the Paris Pass.  Normal Entry Price: Adult: €12.00
Home to hundreds of thousands of classic and modern masterpieces, the Louvre is the icing on the cake of French culture and a testament to European art history – it’s not surprising that it’s also the most visited art gallery in the world!

Centre Pompidou   
The National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou houses one of Europe's most important collections of contemporary art.

Musée d'Orsay  
The Musée d'Orsay's light, airy rooms guide you through three floors of amazing modern art, from Degas' ethereal dancers to Monet's water lilies, all the way to Gaugin's leafy jungles. Major works by Van Gogh, Delacroix, Manet, and others are shown too.

Museum of Modern Art of Paris - Picasso Museum   
Contemporary art buffs will enjoy a visit of the city of Paris' museum of modern art, created in 1961 and housed in the distinctive Palais de Tokyo. The terrace outside the palace allows a striking view of the Eiffel Tower.

Rodin Museum   
In addition to Rodin’s iconic works such "The Thinker", the museum hosts an extensive sculpture garden that's a true pleasure to explore.

Carnavalet Museum   
Pay a visit to the Carnavalet Museum. Housed within the walls of two Renaissance-era mansions, the Hotel de Carnavalet and the Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau.  The Musee Carnavalet in Paris includes an ornate garden.

Musée du Luxembourg   
Situated on the stately grounds of the Luxembourg Gardens, this museum is one of Europe's oldest, and was opened in 1750 as France's first state-run collection of paintings.

Musee Jacquemart-André  
This is another lesser-known gem in the Paris arts scene that focuses on masterpieces in 18th century painting. 

Louis Vuitton Art Museum    
The hyper-modern ship-like museum building opened its doors on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne park, on Monday in a glitzy ceremony attended by French president François Hollande.
Designed by architect Frank Gehry, known for designing the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao, Spain, the striking structure boasts 12 glass sails which billow around the museum's main building - nicknamed 'the iceberg'.

There are certainly many more places for historical and modern art lovers to explore in Paris.  Which one is YOUR favored museum?

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Living or Traveling in Kansas City, Missouri?

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New Exhibition "Across the Indian Country"
Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-68
July 25, 2014 – January 11, 2015, Bloch Building, Gallery L11
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Admission is FREE
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The "Across the Continent" series was photographed first on the existing railroad line across Kansas (resulting in some of the earliest images of that state) and then along the proposed route to the Pacific Ocean. Gardner's photographs stress the benefits of railroad construction–once railroads were built, towns would follow–and suggest the possibility of successful Indian and settler coexistence.

By the 1860's the Plains Indians found themselves sandwiched in the middle of the country with white advancement (nice word for steeling their country) on both sides.  Rail lines cut directly through their hunting grounds–scattering the game necessary for survival.  

This exhibition highlights two rare bodies of work created by Alexander Gardner at this pivotal time: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1867-68 and Scenes in the Indian Country in 1868.
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Admission is FREE - Open Wednesday-Sunday
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is located in the center of Kansas City, at 4525 Oak Street, three blocks northeast of the Country Club Plaza. Visit their coffee shop (free WiFi)

Find out more about this fantastic museum: http://www.nelson-atkins.org

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Art Gallery on Prince Edward Island

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One of the most interesting spots on Prince Edward Island, Canada:  The Dunes Gallery, not far from the famous Ann of Green Gables house and the P.E.I. National Park.  This gallery combines outstanding art, delicious food and drinks, a shopping paradise for crafts from Canada and Asia, exciting architecture, beautiful, lush gardens and friendly hosts.  It was there where I discovered the works of one of the world’s best jewelry designer and goldsmith, Eve Llyndorah.

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I found the Dunes Gallery by chance.  In the middle of nowhere, potato-fields right and left, I dosed along a small country road between Charlottetown and the Prince Edward Island National Park. Suddenly I detected huge, really huge, flags ahead. Curious, I slowed down, wondering what such big flags are announcing. “Dunes Gallery” I read, when pulling into the parking lot.  Well, what really caught my eyes and made me stopping were a Martini glass pictograph and the word Bar & Restaurant.

I yearned for a coffee and something good to eat. The coffee was outstanding (and I am really a connoisseur when it comes to Java), but the food was not only delicious, it was comparable to that of a 5-star restaurant!
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I gave myself lots of time to wander the gardens, watched pottery crafters working, admired Eve Llyndorah’s magnificent jewelry art (and learned she lives on her own island in southern BC), marvelled at the exotic sculptures and browsed through books and gifts, before I settled on the roof top garden to “smell the roses” and enjoy the sunset colors of the sky.
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The visit is a fantastic experience and alone worth the drive to Prince Edward Island. If you go: 3622 Brackley Point Road, Brackley Beach, PE C1E 2P2   (902) 672-2586

More images and info:  http://lifeasahuman.com/2013/arts-culture/art/the-dunes-pei/



Travel Guides Prince-Edward-Island:

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