Who is the woman hiding behind the joyful, round, colourful sculptures that she became famous for? That’s what we can discover this fall during a large retrospective in Grand Palais.

We have grown accustomed to his ready-mades (such as the famous urinoir – called La Fontaine) but much less to his paintings. This fall we have the chance to get acquainted with another aspect of his works at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

There were several reasons to celebrate in Berlin this autumn: Women’s International Network (WIN) held it’s yearly conference there and the city celebrated its 25th jubilee of the wall’s fall and East and West Germany’s unification. This was therefore in a double meaning a ”Magnificent leap of change” – the title of this year’s conference.