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New college, new milestone

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Hermione Lee has become the first female professor at New College, Oxford University, and the first woman to be appointed Goldsmiths' professor of English literature. Lee, who wrote a best-selling biography of Virginia Woolf, was keenly interested in the creative process while holding a chair in the English department at the University of York, and former colleagues hope that her enthusiasm for contemporary authors will be retained. Lee firmly believes biographies should focus on the relationship between an author's works and their life, and she is keen to continuing promoting this view while at Oxford.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Women college teachers, Women college faculty, Lee, Hermione

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The palette and the pipette

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The exhibition "Spectacular Bodies: the Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to now" at the Hayward Gallery, London from October 2000 to January 2001 put together by Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace is described.

Exhibitions, Portrayals, Art exhibitions, Body, Human, Human body, Human figure in art

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The palette and the pipette

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Issues concerning the philosophical debate between art and science are discussed. In the past art was regarded as "high culture", but today science is generally highly esteemed, however, the two come together in wonder.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophy of science, Culture, Wonder

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