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A Woman’s Eye: Upcoming NYC Events, Talks & Lectures that Feature Femmes

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By Troy Segal

This summer, NYC museums, galleries, schools, and even restaurants are offering a platform for some of the strongest female voices in the arts, media, academia and sciences, music, and more.

ARTISTIC DIALOGUES

Jo Ann Callis, Woman in Crimson Slip, 1978 from Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms (Aperture, 2014) © Jo Ann Callis, Courtesy Rose Gallery

Jo Ann Callis, Woman in Crimson Slip, 1978 from Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms (Aperture, 2014) © Jo Ann Callis, Courtesy Rose Gallery

Artist Jo Ann Callis and her publisher, Lesley A. Martin, chat about Other Rooms, Callis’ new art book that features her exploration of the female nude, at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore on June 17.

Two performance artists, Tania Bruguera and Karen Finley, engage in a dialogue about intellectual resistance and the role art can play in social protest at the Guggenheim Museum on July 22.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A panel of female professors, ranging from historians to pharmacologists, examines the problem of obesity in America. And no, it’s not just about overeating. At the New School on June 16.

Feast on a four-course meal that fuses Indian and Latin fare, while discussing how women can advance further in the restaurant industry, part of the Women in Culinary Leadership All-Star Dinner & Panel Discussion, held at Vermilion on June 25.

BREAKING NEWS

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Asia Society President Josette Sheeran engages Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post (and author of a new book, Thrive), in a talk on the brave new world of the 24/7, Internet media we inhabit on June 26.

WOMAN ON THE EDGE

Huguette Clark at 24. (AP)

Huguette Clark at 24. (AP)

Heiress Huguette Clark owned a 42-room apartment on New York’s Fifth Avenue, a 23-acre estate in Santa Barbara, and a 22-room mansion in the woods of Connecticut—so why did she live in hospitals for the last decades for her 104-years-long life? Author Meryl Gordon unravels the mystery at 92nd Street Y on June 24.

SOCIAL UPHEAVAL

Delve into the variety of ways six celebrated black women performers—Nina Simone, Lena Horne, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson—raised the issue of gender and race during the Civil Rights Era in their performances, at the 92nd Street Y on July 7.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates defines Contemporary Mali through Women’s Voices, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 23.