Arts in Brief

by PRESCA AHN

Decem­ber 2009

Next week, Women in Man­age­ment (WIM) will host Yale World Fel­low Muna Abu Sulay­man, the host of MBC show Kalam Nawaem, the most pop­u­lar social pro­gram across all Arab chan­nels. The show focuses on issues of cul­ture and gen­der. Sulay­man is also involved with the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foun­da­tion, for which she focuses on women’s empow­er­ment issues, cross-cultural under­stand­ing, and edu­ca­tion pol­icy in the Mid­dle East. Decem­ber 7th at 11:30 am at School of Man­age­ment, A30.

On the evening of the same day, author and MIT vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor Thomas Glave will speak at Labyrinth Books. Glave has writ­ten Whose Song? and Other Sto­ries and the essay col­lec­tion Worlds to Our Now: Imag­i­na­tion and Dis­sent, win­ner of the 2005 Lambda Lit­er­ary Award. His edited anthol­ogy Our Caribbean: A Gath­er­ing of Les­bian and Gay Writ­ing from the Antilles, was pub­lished last June. Time TBA, at 290 York Street.

Beyond cam­pus: Decem­ber is the last full month in the run of Reflec­tions on the Elec­tric Mir­ror: New Fem­i­nist Video, which has been on view in New York at the Brook­lyn Museum’s Eliz­a­beth A. Sack­ler Cen­ter for Fem­i­nist Art. The exhi­bi­tion was curated by Lau­ren Ross, and fea­tures work by Cathy Begien, Jen DeNike, Kate Gilmore, K8 Hardy and Wynne Green­wood, and oth­ers. It derives its title from fem­i­nist artist Lynn Hershman’s essay “Reflec­tions on the Elec­tric Mir­ror.” Go with a friend, and argue once again about fem­i­nist art, what it means, and why it does or doesn’t mat­ter.