Nancy Spero CB Active 2007) and his collaboration with

2007) and his collaboration with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron for the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics

each selected for their ability to invoke ideas of global concern - including the questioning of accepted narratives and imagining new creative paths for the future

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in which they cut out spots from Damien Hirst prints and sold them as individual art works

or coffee table

Nancy Spero CB Active 2007) and his collaboration withAmerican artist Nancy Spero (b. 1929) concentrates on the depiction of women: mythological women, movie women, tortured women. Inspired by classical and modern sources, she collages and imprints her contemporary goddesses on to long, papyrus like friezes that scroll around museum walls. Her subject matter, which has ranged from the writings of Artaud to the Vietnam War, mirrors her life. Working in Paris in the cultural ferment of the 1960s, she moved