artists and their work

New York City Ballet X Shantell Martin Bringing Contemporary Art to Lincoln Center

Alina Szapocznikow, Grands ventres, a photo session for Elle magazine, 1968.

Grande Ventres by Alina Szapocznikow

From 1971, a powerfully succinct letter from Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard; two highly influential women whose paths crossed numerous times; Spero as a feminist artist, Lippard as a feminist art critic, historian and curator.

Nancy Spero -  A pioneer of  Feminist Art  in her studio, Paris, 1962.

Top photo: Artist Betye Saar in her Los Angeles studio, 1970. She is pictured holding Black Girl's Window (1969), an autobiographical collage shown below in more detail.

The house of artist Mark Hearld, captured for Bible of British Taste

Benton published an autobiography in the late 1930s that was praised by none other than the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist Sinclair Lewis, who wrote, “Here’s a rare thing — a painter who can write.”

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Melvyn Evans studied illustration at Exeter College of Art and Design, followed by a year at Goldsmiths College, London. He then took up drawing classes at the Royal College of Art under the tuition of Bryan Kneale RA. He became a professional artist, printmaker and illustrator in 1992. Evans has developed a signature style of strong, bold imagery, with inspiration coming from artists such as Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Henry Moore and the St Ives School. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK, including at the Royal Academy, the Royal College of Art and Somerset House.

*Photo via Laine Glover‎, Social History

Selections from the NYT article on the preservation (or lack-thereof) of Christo and Jean-Claude's SoHo apartment. Photography by George Etheredge.

Louis Kahn, photographed in the auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum, 1972

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Raúl De Nieves

Josh Gluckstein Crafts a Teeming Reef from Recycled Cardboard