Jerry Gorovoy spoke to us as the first survey of Bourgeois’s late fabric creations, “The Woven Child”, is on view at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. Jerry Gorovoy ...
Hugely prolific, eternally provocative, and considered by many to be the greatest female artist of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois died this past May at age 98. During the last year of her life, ...
Although the Paris-born artist Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental sculptures of spiders and her intimately scaled works in bronze, stone, and wood, Bourgeois, who died in 2010, was also ...
When Joan Acocella profiled Louise Bourgeois in The New Yorker, in early 2002, the artist had just passed her ninetieth birthday, but she was very clearly, as Acocella put it, “not a dear old lady.” ...
When French photographer Jean-François Jaussaud asked an 84-year-old Louise Bourgeois for permission to photograph her at her New York home and studio, she gave him an intimidating stipulation.
That’s the answer you should give yourself if you are wondering: “Should I go see that new Louise Bourgeois documentary at SIFF?” We’ve been handed so many contrived movie fictions about artists in ...
Towering bronze spiders, intertwined fabric bodies, and worn jumpers stiffened into abstractions. To walk through Louise Bourgeois’ art is to walk through her memories: the fragile fragments from a ...
Louise Bourgeois, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98.
Louise Bourgeois described her drawings as 'the treatment of anxiety.' Hauser & Wirth's first online show brings these brilliant sketches into your home right when they're most needed. Louise ...
Artist Louise Bourgeois died in New York at the age of 98 Monday. Known primarily as a sculptor, Bourgeois was a leading figure in 20th century art. Her works were provocative and disturbing, but ...
At Cheim & Read gallery, in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, strange forms hang from the ceiling. Many are abstract—for example, what looks like an oversize rubber punching bag with a hole in it.
Louise Bourgeois, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98.