But John Yau has more recently suggested that the fact that Asawa's work was made by hand with simple tools — rather than welded or industrially produced, for example — at a time when craft was in - creasingly viewed as obsolete, posed a direct challenge to contemporary categories of art, conventions of taste and the assumed gender identity of the artist in the 1950s and»60s, even if this challenge was never directly acknowledged at the time. (davidzwirner.com)
Stiletto Contest Published Entry Form (* Published Mid-Length Contemporary category is now full.) (contemporaryromance.org)
Secrets and Lies by Christine Amsden won Silver in the Fiction Fantasy / contemporary category of the 2014 Global eBook Awards. (twilighttimesbooks.com)