Lauren Martin, Author at Words of Women

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November 30, 2017

Miss Peru Contestants Refuse To Give Their Body Measurements And Give These Numbers Instead

If you’re not familiar with beauty pageants, there’s a point in the contest when the contestants must give their hip, waist and bust measurements to the judges and audience. (Hard to believe we still live in a world where women are being judged on their physical measurements of “beauty”.) On Sunday, October 29, viewers of […]

November 29, 2017

Paula Scher On Doing What You’ve Never Done Before

[P]aula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991. Scher moved to New York City and took her first job as a layout artist for Random House’s children’s book division. In 1972, she was hired by CBS Records to […]

November 29, 2017

How Marilyn Minter Said ‘F*ck You’ To The Art World And Made Herself Famous For It

[D]id you know work by women artists makes up only 3–5% of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe? Or that the top three museums in the world, the British Museum (est. 1753), the Louvre (est. 1793), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (est. 1870) have never had female directors? Or that only five […]