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News & ArtsThursday, January 28, 2010
Visual Art / The Ladies A Whole Series on Health, Sex, and Women's Rights in Contemporary Asia
Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM
I've complained before that Mimi Gates, former Seattle Art Museum director, was a little out of touch (she did not know what Wikipedia was as of the middle of the first decade of the 21st century).
But listen: The woman gets a thing done when she cares about it, and she cares about Asian culture.
Last fall she singlehandedly and pretty much suddenly launched The Gardner Center for Asian Art & Ideas, which consisted of a series of talks on Asian art. Now, starting this Saturday and for four straight weeks, she's organized lectures on women's land rights, maternal mortality, and female labor and exploitation in contemporary Asia. It sounds awesome.
Here are the details.
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