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

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

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Grande Ventres by Alina Szapocznikow

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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.

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

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100 Portraits: Women Artists, Photographs by Barbara Yoshida

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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.

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

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Thomas Hart Benton at work on his painting, “The Rape of Persephone.” Alfred Eisenstaedt, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.

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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British artist Melvyn Evans: "When my father left the Navy we farmed a hill farm in West Wales. Working on the land brought me very close to the elemental in the landscape, able to see through the picturesque and understand how deep connections and bonds are formed when we live in harmony with the land."

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.

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A resident of Hamnavoe, Shetland Islands in Scotland, Anne Eunson decided to knit herself a beautiful lace fence using twine. The fence is fashioned from strong black twine - the same kind that is used to make fishing nets - and Anne knitted it on specially adapted curtain rods. It took her about three weeks to knit enough lace to surround her front garden, using a 23 stitch repeat of a familiar Shetland lace pattern.

*Photo via Laine Glover‎, Social History