Womankind

Womankind

30 The next step

Womankind

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Writers

Manifesto • What is a ‘good life’? What makes a life worth living?

STEALING VERMEER • A woman with an economics major from Oxford University became the first woman to pull off a major art heist, with Vermeer’s interior scene in her trunk.

The black swan

Punctuated equilibrium • Challenging a core assumption of Darwin’s theory of evolution, the theory of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ has relevance for our own lives.

THE TROUBLE WITH ENVY

In search of talent

PLANNING FOR IDLENESS • One study conducted on US citizens noted that a sizeable 76 per cent of respondents kept a daily to-do list, with some managing up to three lists concurrently. While most people fill to-do lists with important things to do, few use such a list to plan for breaks.

EDUCATION AND IDENTITY

Unintentional purpose • Dutch artist Hendrik Kerstens creates captivating portraits of his daughter Paula using everyday objects - showing the transformative power of art.

The Dutch way to happiness • In order to be happier, we must turn away from the activities that make us so unhappy.

Niksen: The Dutch art of doing nothing • When we think of busyness, we usually think of work. But the overwhelm spills over into other areas.

A MATTER OF ESSENTIALS • In life, we battle against both time and energy, meaning we have to learn to prioritise the essentials.

Jeanne de Kroon • Jeanne de Kroon lives with chickens on a boat in Amsterdam and works with women-led organisations in India to realise her ambitions.

Bregje Sliepenbeek • Bregje Sliepenbeek grew up in Poland but has found her home in Amsterdam where she works in a studio creating minimalist sculptural pieces made from metal.

Sara Mulder • Sara Mulder cares for a family of seven children, on a farm outside of Amsterdam, and four of her children form part of her foster home.

Vincent van Gogh • When we admire the work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh we need also consider the woman who helped make him famous.

Lost but not found • The disappearance of two Dutch twenty-somethings in a Panama jungle continues to plague those seeking answers.

WOMANKIND Art & Illustration Award III Still Life

On Guilt • Philosopher Jannah Loontjens wrote a book about guilt, Guilty: An Exploration of My Conscience, because it was a feeling she struggled with personally.

COMING TO OUR SENSES • The pandemic has been an assault on our senses, a mass sensory deprivation, where we have been cut off from more than just each other.

WOMANKIND Photographers’ Award XXV

Unfolding the tulip craze • In the Dutch Golden Age certain variants of colourful tulips went for the price of a bricks-and-mortar house, prompting historians to query why.

WOMANKIND’S decoration challenge • Womankind readers were challenged to spend some time each day redecorating or reordering their homes.

Cultivating genius • The Netherlands has produced, indisputably, some of the greatest artists the world has ever seen - Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, Vincent Van Gogh, and dozens more.

The life of art • When viewing art it’s easy to conflate the artwork with the artist’s life.

Books

MAP Museum of Art & Philosophy

Poem