Before my life was overtaken by the twin storms of packing and moving, I attended a series of lectures by artists at Anna Ticho House in Jerusalem as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival. The topic was Feminist Art and the Female Body, and the event was starring the Viennese artist VALIE EXPORT. (Yes, it is in capitals, like that.) Two other Israeli artists, Noa Sadka and Hila Lulu Lin, spoke afterward on the same topic.
I confess, I did not go to art school and may have missed nuances that …

The other day I came across the blog of Mary Beard, a highly respected Cambridge academic, voted by Vogue UK as one of the “30 most inspirational women of 2009.”