Arts & Travel
Meredith
Xavier is Founder and Principal of Ligné Agency, a boutique business development firm representing
clients in the interior design industry, which she founded in 2009 aged just 24.
Meredith has since opened two Ligné satellite offices in Sao Paulo and Houston, in addition to her office in Los Angeles.
Always ambitious,
Meredith graduated high school a year ahead of schedule. Whilst studying Art
History in California, she developed a fascination for composition of interior
spaces. During her senior year she pursued her interests in design, working at
Christie’s in Beverly Hills.
After graduating college in 2006, Meredith moved to London to attend Christie's Fine and Decorative Arts Connoisseurship Program. At just 22, she received her Masters in European Fine & Decorative Arts before returning to Los Angeles, where she began dealing art through her first company, Meredith Laing Fine Art.
Through her work at the Pacific Design Center Meredith has designed hotel art installations around the world including Presidential Suites for the Ritz Carlton in Miami, the Marriott Hotel in Dubai, Hilton Times Square in New York, and an installation at the UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles.
Alexis Tryon is
the founder and CEO of Artsicle, a site to discover your taste in art and rent
original work to enjoy at home. Artsicle has been named one of the
"Silicon Alley 100" by Business Insider and called the "Netflix
of the Art World" by CBS.
Previously, Alexis worked at American Express in the restaurant group and developed her passion for art at the ICA Philadelphia. Her favorite artists are currently Jock Sturges and Roxy Paine.
Artist producing under their own label are everywhere. One of them is Sara Schiralli, she is releasing The Clearing through her own label and a cool video accompanies the track.
Beautiful, Italian born & London raised, from 'under ground' Camden in the UK and she makes gritty pop music, drawing influences from early pink Floyd to more haunting piano sounds,– there's currently a strong underground following for Schiralli in France and things are starting to go the same way in the UK.
Time for a short interview:
It is always interesting to hear from a woman who has made it to the top in a man's profession. This guest piece was written for The NextWomen by one of the world's rare female conductors, Bridget Cunningham.
Dame Ethel Smyth composed "The March of the Women" in 1911, which she conducted through the bars of her cell in Holloway prison with a toothbrush. That remains the single most famous observation about this "lady composer" who dressed in tweeds, smoked cigars and fell in love with Virginia Woolf..such eccentricities show why she hasn't become a usable female-composer to help promote role models for the future.
Celebrated
artists, politicians, performers, community workers and LGBT activists will offer
insights into contemporary gender issues in this unique symposium hosted by London's October Gallery Education on 24th March.
Taking Palestinian artist Laila Shawa’s Disposable Bodies No.3 as a trigger, the symposium offers a layering of narratives to create a collective portrait of women today. How conflicted will these multiple perspectives be? Do we really need a Women’s History Month anyway?
As many other people in the past days, you might have seen scenes of the movie "Starwars Uncut", a crowdsourced fan version of the seventh movie in the Starwars series, "Episode IV: A New Hope".
When I was traveling in South Africa, I got an email from Sally Broom. She had been following my travels on my blog and wrote that her travels to
South Africa had left a mark on her. She told me that she runs a company
called Tripbod that
connects visitors with like-minded locals to help them experience the real
destination through the eyes of someone who lives there. Would either
Jessica or the both of us like to try out their services?
Carol Cork is co-founder of PrivateFly.com, the leading online booking
platform for private jet charter and
the fastest-growing air charter business in Europe in 2010. Her co-founder is her husband, Adam Twidell, a
former RAF and private jet pilot.
PrivateFly is a disruptive technology platform, bringing price transparency and response speed to the highly-fragmented and traditional private aviation market. The business was launched in March 2008, after 18 months of software development and research.
Buy Tracey & Damien Online: Launch of S[Edition], the High Browse Art e-Commerce Site for Low Prices
Just in time for your Santa Claus and Christmas shopping: Mat Collishaw, Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst, Isaac Julien, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Bill Viola and Wim Wenders are among the first artists on s[edition], a revolutionary digital platform for collecting contemporary art, launched in London on 17 November 2011. Limited edition works specifically for the iPhone, tablets, laptops and monitors.
Milena Cvijanovich started her own architecture practice 18 years ago and has since re-invested profits in various projects and businesses, becoming a very successful investor as well as entrepreneur. Female Hero Milena is on the lookout for the right team member to join her latest company, fair-trade luxury marketplace Ethnosphere.
Here's what Milena had to say when we met her:
Upcoming Events
21 May 2012 - 09:00 - 23 May 2012 - 19:30New York, US
22 May 2012 - 09:30 - 24 May 2012 - 19:00Astana, Kazakhstan
