Louise Bourgeois wasn’t afraid of spiders—she turned them into highly sought after art. But the artist only began sculpting her most iconic forms after many decades. Today, they inhabit top museums ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art already owns a monumental Spider by famed sculptor Louis Bourgeois. Now, starting September 9, the museum will also present “Louise Bourgeois: Paintings,” the first ...

A show at the Metropolitan Museum presents us with what is in many ways a whole new artist whose achievement in painting will need to be factored into art history. By Roberta Smith It is one thing to ...

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I can still recall the first time I saw Louise Bourgeois’s enormous spider at London’s Tate Modern, 22 years ago. It was one of those rare moments when a new artwork becomes an instant icon, something ...

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.

Nobody should go to see Louise Bourgeois's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York just because she's 96. People should see it instead because, as the catalog essay by Frances Morris says, ...

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.

Can a writer put visual art on the page? Or render a visual artist's creative impulses into words? Now, Now, Louison is Jean Frémon's freewheeling effort to do so. Frémon — lawyer, writer and gallery ...

“Who says,” the artist muses, “that sewing is not sculpture? That weaving is not sculpture?” Or even “feverishly assembling twigs”? That last, in fact, sounds something like this odd little novel. A ...

For “PST Art,” the Getty is showing works by John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Deana Lawson and others in a medium that promised to be the future. By Frank Rose Plus: a sporty bag collaboration, a ...

For their new People Museum EP, “Destruction of, Vol. 1,” Claire Givens and Jeremy Phipps found inspiration in being uneasy. In fact, the word “terrified” is brought up a lot in conversation. The four ...