VENICE-- Across the globe in arts and culture, women are often at the forefront as powerful agents of change. At the same time, many strings do ultimately seem to be pulled…
Read MoreDENVER AND BATH, ENGLAND VIA SKYPE: While selecting programming for the 2014 Bath Film Festival, the director and festival head Holly Tarquini devised an innovative idea: create an F-Rating for…
Read MoreLONDON--The number of women CEOs on Britain’s FTSE 100 stock exchange was a total of eight when Kate Bryan, the British art historian and global head of collections at Soho…
Read MoreBELGRADE, SERBIA—It was early Monday morning just after Easter weekend and I was watching Isidor, the black kitten I rescued from the streets of the Serbian capital a few months…
Read MoreLONDON AND LIPNYAGOVA VIA FACEBOOK—It was an early snowy morning in the tiny Siberian village of Lipnyagova, just north of the Russian-Kazakh border and Olga Lyebedeva-Skachkova, 36, was off to milk her cow Zvyozdochka.…
Read MoreNAIROBI, KENYA—Some people just have that je ne sais quoi charismatic quality that draws you in and Kenyan singer Phy (real name Phyllis Mwihaki Ng'etich), 23, has that in spades.…
Read MoreNEW YORK CITY--Beneath layers of red, gold, green, blue and violet oil paint, and through the translucent images of blossoming flowers and green foliage, the portraits of 15 women appear.…
Read MoreACCRA, GHANA—Elisabeth Sutherland is descended from cultural royalty here in Ghana. The 25-year-old artist and theater director is the granddaughter of Efua Sutherland, one of Ghana’s best-known playwrights and children’s…
Read MoreDENVER AND ATLANTA VIA PHONE—Atlanta-based photographer Kate T. Parker is a force of nature. The self-described mom, wife, photographer and Ironman is challenging advertising and media norms, and redefining what…
Read MoreLONDON AND NEW YORK VIA PHONE—For a famous pop singer, Betty Who (real name: Jessica Anne Newman) is refreshingly open, warm and bubbly. And when I share that I met her…
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