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Notes in Time
Nancy Spero with Christopher Lyon

A digital project, part of And Yet It Moves
  • Nancy Spero was a pioneer of feminist art. She was born in Cleveland in 1926 and died in New York City in 2009. Her work was shown in major exhibitions at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2003); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1994); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1994); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1992); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988).
  • Christopher Lyon is an art writer and editor living in Brooklyn. He is editor in chief of Prestel Publishing.
"Notes in Time" was produced by Triple Canopy as part of its Internet as Material project area, supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston.

Images of works of art are copyright the Estate of Nancy Spero, 2010, courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York City. Text adapted from Nancy Spero: The Work, by Christopher Lyon, copyright Christopher Lyon and Prestel Verlag, Munich, London, and New York City, published October 2010. Used by permission.
Tags: Artist Project, Fiction, Sexuality, Conflict
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