Louise Bourgeois remains best known for her spider sculptures, cell installations, and uncanny sewn figures, but print- and book-making sustained her practice for decades. Beginning with tightly ...
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.
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.” ...
Louise Bourgeois, called one of the greatest influences in 20th century art, died yesterday in New York. She was 98 years old. The French-born artist had a career that spanned for more than 70 years.
Robert Mapplethorpe’s iconic 1982 portrait of Louise Bourgeois, who died yesterday at 98, speaks volumes about Bourgeois’s free-spiritedness, grace, tenacity, and the kinky perversity of her work. In ...
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 ...
I should begin this review of Roy Bourgeois’ eloquent pamphlet, My Journey from Silence to Solidarity, which is both autobiography and polemic, with a disclosure — that, after interviewing Bourgeois ...