Madame B: Explorations in Emotional Capitalism, Michelle Williams Gamaker and Mieke Bal's 19-screen installation adapted from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel, opens in the Sztuki Museum in Łódź, Poland, on 6 December 2013. The show is up until 9 February 2014.

This exhibition, at one of the oldest museums of modern art in the world, is the work's first public showing before it tours internationally, with exhibitions in Finland, Estonia and Colombia among its future destinations. 

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Michelle Williams Gamaker gives the keynote presentation at Female Beauty Systems Throughout the Centuries, a symposium at NIAS in Wassenaar, Netherlands.

The talk is entitled The Cult of Beauty Revisited, and discusses beauty in the context of Madame B, a film adaptation of Madame Bovary for modern times made with Mieke Bal.