Nov 25, 2021

Issue #35: Let's thank Women of Art and Cultural World 🧡

Dear Hypercritics,

Today is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Thanksgiving day.

We want to converge these two occasions by thanking all women artists and those connected to the cultural world.

We want to give them space and voice, and express our gratitude for their work.

Starting with the Hypercritic Poethon 2021 and an art exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, we’ll meet and celebrate several women artists around the world.

Let’s say thanks… 🧡

To poets who change the world

➡️ Watch Hypercritic Poethon 2021 #88PoetsToChangeTheWorld

Hypercritic celebrated World Poetry Day 2021 with a reading marathon from the works of 88 women poets, from both past and present.

www.hypercritic.org

To artists and their female gaze

➡️ Experience Celebrating Women in Abstraction at Centre Pompidou

Women in abstraction at the Centre Pompidou sets out to exhibit the hidden female history of abstraction, the female gaze.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Watch Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”

www.hypercritic.org

To unconventional minds

➡️ Read Margaret Atwood | From the origins to a dystopian future

Guest of the Turin Book Fair, Margaret Atwood talked about her origins as a writer and her dystopian vision of the future.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Read Little Women | An independence story against society's expectations

Louisa May Alcott‘s Little Women is a classic coming-of-age novel. It follows the lives of the four March sisters in their journey from childhood to womanhood.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Experience Patssi Valdez's Forbidden Fruit | The feminine and the sacred

Patssi Valdez‘s Forbidden Fruit explores the feminine and the sacred in Mexican American forms of popular spirituality and folk traditions.

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➡️ Watch Grey's Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Shonda Rhimes‘s Grey’s Anatomy is the longest-running Medical Drama in history. A pillar in the modern TV era, it has won two Golden Globes

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To revolutionary artists

➡️ Read Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay has been a symbol of female emancipation. “Think not I am faithful to a vow” examines the precariousness of love.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Experience Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo at Harry Ransom Center

Visitors to the Ransom Center have the opportunity to view one of Frida Kahlo’s most iconic paintings: an untitled self-portrait known as Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.

www.hrc.utexas.edu

➡️ Read My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness | The revolution of self-discovery

Kabi Nagata‘s first manga, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, is a story of self-discovery and innovation of yuri manga.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Experience Judith Beheading Holofernes | Stories of women and revenge

Artemisia Gentileschi, was a 17th-century Caravaggesque artist. Artemisia painted Judith Beheading Holofernes in 1620 for Cosimo II de Medici.

www.hypercritic.org

➡️ Watch Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Fleabag is an adaptation from Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s one-woman show of the same name, staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2013.

www.hypercritic.org

To unforgettable performers

➡️ Watch Maryla Jonas | Her Complete Piano Recordings

Elegant and passionate performer. Pianist Maryla Jonas has encountered many obstacles in her life and has never been recognized for her talent and musical sensitivity.

Here’s the album The Maryla Jonas Story, with her piano recordings.

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➡️ Play Martha Argerich | Scarlatti's Sonate K.141

Turned 80 in 2021, Martha Argerich is one of the greatest pianists of all time. When she touches the key, it’s an outstanding experience.

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These are just a few of the women artists we want to thank. And we will continue to do so by covering their work.

By creating positive collective imagination, Hypercritic can help in the fight to eliminate violence against women.

2021 Theme: Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!

Have a look at the UN campaign on social media by following the hashtags #GenerationEquality and #orangetheworld, and keep in touch with Hypercritic on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Issue created by Giulia Avataneo, Clara Gastaldi, Anna Ainio, Carmen De Nisi, Giovanni Di Rienzo, Andrea Donini, Agnese Mosconi, Valeria Provenzano, Davide Tiberga, and Alessandro Avataneo.

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