'Three Cities Against The Wall' connects artists across borders Sep 14, 2005
They include U.S. painters Nancy Spero and the late Leon Golub and cartoonist Seth Tobocman; from Palestine, the organizers Barakat and Mansour are themselves exhibiting painting and sculpture; and from Israel, video artist Galit Eilat, director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art, and the late cartoonist Dudu Geva. As significant as the exhibition itself is the catalogue that will result from it. (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
Naked ambition Jun 28, 2005
In them we see first- and second-generation abstract expressionism, from de Kooning to Joan Mitchell; 1980s neo-expressionist and "new image" painting; late-period Philip Guston, early Goya, Fragonard, bits of Hogarth, early Nancy Spero paintings of lovers. I could go on requoting Brown's own, painterly quotes. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Art scene blossoms around the city Dec 26, 2004
Just before painter Leon Golub died, the Fine Arts Work Center put together a small show of his drawings paired with the work of his wife, Nancy Spero. The two were masculine and feminine iconographies butting heads: Spero's women delighting in themselves and their sexuality; Golub's men immersed in anger and angst. (Boston Globe -- Living)
At Tufts galleries, she's bringing out the gleam in a hidden gem Oct 10, 2004
Exhibitions she'd like to mount include work by Iranian post-revolutionary artists, a thematic retrospective of artist Nancy Spero, and a survey of women pop artists from 1958 to 1968. Talking about any one of them, Schlegel lights up. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Artist's images were brutal and full of integrity Aug 18, 2004
In 1994, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner (then director and curator, respectively, of MIT's List Visual Arts Center) organized a huge exhibition of the work of Golub and his wife, Nancy Spero, for the inaugural year of the now-defunct American Center in Paris (Golub and Spero had lived in the French capital from 1959 to 1964). Kline, now the director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, praises Golub's "inviolable beliefs. He was an undeterred humanist. When I heard he was... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The First Art Newspaper on the Net. Jun 2, 2004
The exhibition will include 108 paintings, 36 sculptures, 340 works on paper, 140 photos, 24 films, as well as sound works and rare books, from: Josef Albers, Pierre Albert-Birot, Carl Andre, Guillaume Apollinaire, Adolphe Appia, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, Hugo Ball, Giacomo Balla, Rafael Barradas, Ingmar Bergman, Umberto Boccioni, Alighiero Boetti, Georges Braque, Andr Breton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joan Brossa, Trisha Brown, Gnter Brus, Camille Bryen, John Cage, Haroldo de Campos, Francesco... (Art Daily)
'TV Dinner' is a feast for the senses Apr 7, 2004
The instant punch of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing, or the clearly feminist content of a Nancy Spero -- that's not for Cannavacciuolo. His wall works are far more sly. (Boston Globe -- Living)
New Bedford boasts contemporary art seaside and on edge Dec 1, 2003
"When I came to grad school here in 1988, everyone got to New Bedford, said 'ugh,' and made it their intention to leave," says artist Nancy Hayes. It's too busy mounting large thematic shows, or exhibitions of work by heavy-hitting, internationally known artists such as photographer Duane Michals and painter Nancy Spero (Boston.com, MA)
Ancient wisdom Oct 17, 2003
Upstairs, Spero's silk banners, on view indefinitely, are in vivid hues, as Egyptian sculpture originally was. They're adorned with figures in acrobatic poses and a text of ancient hymns to Isis (Boston Globe, MA)
