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On Frida Kahlo: Forging her own identity

James Porteous 19 November 2021 0 Comment

Her value is not in her stupendous auction prices, but in her hard-won road to artistic greatness 18 November 2021 | Guardian Editorial | The Guardian A late self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold this week at a...

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Mexico: Top court decriminalization of abortion hailed as ‘watershed moment’

James Porteous 8 September 2021 0 Comment

The decision in the world’s second-biggest Roman Catholic country means that courts can no longer prosecute abortion cases. Photo: A woman holds up a banner which reads “My body, I decide” during a protest...

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And then she tried ‘period pants…’

James Porteous 1 September 2021 0 Comment

Previously a niche, expensive product, period knickers are now readily available on the UK high street. Women explain why they are turning their backs on single-use pads and tampons Photo: ‘I feel more confident’...

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Gertrude Stein’s memoir of the ‘lost generation’

James Porteous 2 August 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten An interesting, if somewhat overly critical look at Gertrude Stein and her The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. Personally I have never understood why she is...

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Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death?

James Porteous 31 July 2021 0 Comment

(Image credit: Alamy) Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she’s been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the ‘real’ Plath. 21 July 2021 |...

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Obituary: Haunani-Kay Trask – Hawai’ian poet, activist (71)

James Porteous 10 July 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not sweet, and I do not want...

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Obituary: John Sacret Young, ‘China Beach’ co-creator and ‘West Wing’ writer (75)

James Porteous 26 June 2021 0 Comment

217 June 2021 | Steve Marble | Los Angeles Times John Sacret Young, a writer and director who gave TV viewers a hellish portrait of warfare and its life-altering consequences in “China Beach” and...

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Photo Essay: The Women of Venice Discover Boating

James Porteous 26 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Boating instructor Marta Canino steers her way through the canals of Venice with her student Sara. Photo: Giacomo Sini Boating has been a pastime for men for hundreds of years in Venice. But...

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Study: Women have become more ‘sexually fluid’

James Porteous 19 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Over time, language has evolved to recognise women as sexually non-binary (Credit: Getty Images) 15th June 2021 | Jessica Klein | BBC The way we think about sexuality is changing. Where there was...

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Avant-garde makeup artist explores the changing face of women

James Porteous 6 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: The COVID-19 crisis turned out to be an opportunity for Saudi avant-garde makeup artist Salwa Koshak. (Supplied) 05 June 2021 | DEEMA AL-KHUDAIR | Arab News JEDDAH: The faces in the photographs are...

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Hannah Wilke’s work laid bare at the Pulitzer Art Foundation

James Porteous 3 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: A detail from Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus Triptych “Marilyn Monroe” (1992-93) © 2021 Scharlatt Family, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Permission Nearly 120...

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French mayor convicted of rape still running town from cell

James Porteous 23 April 2021 0 Comment

Georges Tron. This week’s municipal council meeting opened with his team reading aloud a letter sent from his cell with instructions about the town’s budget. Photograph: Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images 23 April 2021 |...