American artist Nancy Spero died on 18 October in New York. She was 83. Active as a pioneer of feminist art from the late 1950s, her figurative art addressed the realities of inequality between the sexes and political violence. Spero and her husband, painter Leon Golub, were awarded the 1996 Hiroshima Prize, which recognizes contemporary artists who have contributed to the peace of all humanity, and held a two-person exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
