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Making Her Mark में प्रदर्शित रचनाकारों में Tracey Emin भी शामिल हैं, जो Penzance, Worcester और Kirkcaldy गैलरियों की एक परियोजना है। कई क्षेत्रीय गैलरियों की तरह, Cornwall में Penlee House का संग्रह पुरुष कलाकारों के वर्चस्व वाला रहा है, जो सदियों से महिला रचनाकारों द्वारा सामना की गई असमानता की विरासत है। लेकिन गुरुवार से, गैलरियों के बीच सहयोग की बदौलत, Penzance के इस स्थल पर आने वाले आगंतुक ब्रिटेन की कुछ महान महिला कलाकारों के कार्यों को देख सकेंगे। पढ़ना जारी रखें...

Hedge fund tycoon faces questions in court over sexual harassment allegations that have left his career in tattersFacing a litany of questions over sexual harassment allegations that have left his career in tatters, hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey told a court he does not remember cornering a female employee after a boozy lunch and saying to her “I could attack you now”.The 67-year-old made the comments during his first day in the witness box, as part of a three-week court case which Odey hopes will overturn the City regulator’s decision to ban him from the UK’s financial services industry. Continue reading...

Show in part a rediscovery of more than 40 mostly forgotten women who plied their trade in the Low CountriesJudith Leyster, an artist of the Dutch golden age, was thought to be about 21 when she painted her self-portrait in 1630. In the picture she presented to the world, Leyster exudes cheerful confidence. Clad in shimmering silks and a stiffly starched lace collar, she leans back in her chair, palette and brushes in hand, a painting by her side.This work, completed in the year she was admitted to a painters’ guild in Haarlem, proclaimed her arrival as an established artist. It was one of the first self-portraits by an artist in the Dutch republic, a device most male painters did not adopt until years later. Continue reading...