Louise Bourgeois

The Best Mothers In Art

Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Mothers in Art, Cindy Sherman, Michelangelo, Motherhood in Art, Louise Bourgeois, Mothers Day, Van Gogh, Slideexpand, Paintings of Motherhood, Alice Neel, Moms in Art, Art's Best Moms, Happy Mothers Day, Female Artists, Lucian Freud, Arts News

HuffPost Arts would like to officially thank moms everywhere for their countless gifts of strength and inspiration. What better way is there to expres...

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Louise Bourgeois: The Return Of The Repressed

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Dream Analysis, Return of the Repressed, Maman, Louise Bourgeois Psychoanalysis, Feminist, Confessional Art, Louise Bourgeois, Surrealism, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, UK Arts, Minimalism, Video, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Louise Bourgeois created haunting sculptural forms inspired by femininity and domesticity. But through her touch, these 'soft' subject matters morph i...

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Women Surrealists Rule 'In Wonderland'

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Women, Louise Bourgeoisie, Women Surrealism, Freud, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, Women Artists, Los Angeles Art, Lacma, Lee Miller, Remedios Varo, Dali, Frida Kahlo, In Wonderland, Diego Rivera, Leonora Carrington, Arts News

Not since Alice lost her way down the rabbit hole have we seen a wonderland so strange and delightful. In the first ever survey of women surrealists i...

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Artists Who Don't Make Art Still Make Millions

Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Petry, Mona Hatoum, Matthew Barney, Art of Not Making, Mark Wallinger, Artisans, Kara Walker, Louise Bourgeois, Grayson Perry, Kiki Smith, Daniel Buren, Authorship, Liam Gillick, Tony Cragg, Carsten Höller, Michael Petry, Chris Burden, Fred Wilson, The Art of Not Making, Sherrie Levine, Pae White, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

There was a time when the artist at work meant hours of solitude, piles of tossed-out failed works, and clothes covered in smudges of charcoal and pai...

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Surrealism at LACMA, Gingrich to the Moon

Edward Goldman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ed Kienholz, Dorothea-Tanning, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Louise Bourgeois, Lacma, LA Louver Gallery, Lee Miller, Jose-Clemente-Orozco, Arts News
Edward Goldman

So, here she was: one female artist versus three super-macho colleagues. And you know who won the battle? Yes, you guessed it right: Frida left the boys in the dust.

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Edvard Munch and Personal Art

David Galenson | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Arts News
David Galenson

In a 1999 essay, Ernst van de Wetering, professor of art history at the U. of Amsterdam and chairman of the Rembrandt Research Project, noted that Rembrandt had painted himself at least 40 times, had etched himself 31 times, and had drawn a handful of self-portraits.

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PHOTOS: Delicious Newcomers To See At Art Basel Miami Beach

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Art Basel 2011, Chiho Aoshima, Art Basel, Art Fair, Louise Bourgeois, Contemporary Art, Kristen Oppenheim, Xaviera Simmons, Bill Viola, Nick Cave, Art Basil Miami, Arts News

Art Basel Miami Beach is America's biggest art fair, and each year it features hundreds of the world's hottest visual artists, from world-famous art s...

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WATCH: Building 'Maman,' Louise Bourgeois' Giant Spider Sculpture

VernissageTV | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Basel, Public Art, Modern Art, Installation, Fondation Beyeler, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois, Bronze, Spiders, UK Arts, Maman, Arts News
VernissageTV

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Fondation Beyeler, the museum is showing the artist's famous sculpture Maman. This video documen...

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PHOTOS: Controversial Art By Ai Weiwei, David LaChapelle, At Hong Kong Art Fair

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Photography, The Raft, Hong Kong, Hong-Kong-Arts, Sculpture, The Raft of Medusa, Louise Bourgeois, David Lachapelle, Painting, Freedom of Speech, Art, Controversy, The Marble Arm, Gericault, Hk11, Hong Kong Art Fair, Damien Hirst, Ai Weiwei, Arts News

The 2011 Hong Kong Art Fair is larger than ever with 260 galleries participating in this year's festivities which run through Sunday, May 29. While ma...

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Can An Art Fair Be Dreamy?

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maastricht, Louise Bourgeois, Tefaf, Rembrandt, Anish Kapoor, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Art Fairs, Painting, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

Jenny Saville, Pause, 2002-03. Oil on canvas, 10 x 7 ft / 305 x 213 cm. Exhibitor: Thomas Gibson Fine Art TEFAF is Dreamy. Let me explain why. Th...

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Artworld Gift Guide for the Holidays

Jim Hedges | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Performa, Paul Pfeiffer, Freedom to Marry, Guggenheim, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Doig, Moma, Gagosian, Prada, Carrie Mae Weems, Andy Warhol, Works on Whatever, Jessica Craig-Martin, Isaac Julien, Jim Hodges, And+Culture, Bomb Magazine, Kehinde Wiley, Nick Cave, Arts News
Jim Hedges

Art is more accessible than ever before in history. What's best is that everyone can now buy real art made by recognized contemporary masters for modest prices.

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All You Need is Love -- an Auction Scorecard

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Arshile Gorky, Jeff Koons, Lee Bontecou, Francis Bacon, Art Auctions, Philips De Pury and Company, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Bourgeois, Dennis Hopper, Christie's, Sotheby's, Auctions, New York Art, Arts News
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta

"The bidders egos are the main reason for the inflated prices," Luis Accorsi told us. "The eagerness to win, one person over the other." Nevertheless, it's hard not to be taken in by the energy in the room.

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INSIDE ART: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cezanne, Experimental Innovator, Louise Bourgeois, Conceptual Innovator, Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Arts News
David Galenson

Why did great artists do their best work at such different stages of their careers?

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LOS ANGELES GALLERY EXHIBITS: September 23 - 29, PLAN ForYourArt

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Resnick Pavilion, The Chapin Sisters, Louise Bourgeois, Lacma, Los Angeles, Bill Viola, Foryourart, Eva Hesse, GLOW Santa Monica, Marina Abramovic, Laxart, Hammer Museum, Joseph Beuys, Arts, Chris Burden, Prism, Glenn Kaino, Terence Koh, Superclogger, Joel Kyack, Los Angeles News
Bettina Korek

There has never been more worldwide attention on the creative culture of Los Angeles. Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings thr...

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ART COLLABORATION: Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin Relive Their Past Together

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kisa Lala, Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, Carolina Nitsch Gallery, Arts News
Spread ArtCulture

By Kisa Lala "Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, 2010. Portrait by Brigitte Cornand" Before her death recently at the age of 98, Louise Bourgeois ...

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Victoria Bartlett's Visible Panty Line

Hellin Kay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Visible Panty Line, Louise Bourgeois, H&M, Ghada Amer, Joseph Beuys, Victoria Bartlett, Eva Hesse, Ken Unsworth, Rodarte, Jenny Saville, Last Poets, Naum Gabo, Target, Karl Lagerfeld, Vpl, Merry Clayton, Mantronix, New York Fashion Week, Style News
Hellin Kay

Victoria Bartlett's designs have a quiet subtlety and like the clothes themselves, an asymmetric view of the world that challenges conventional standards of what is sexy especially in regard to undergarments.

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Why Size Doesn't Matter: "Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense" at the MoMA

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Louise Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Moma, Sputnik, Contemporary Art, Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Art Exhibitions, New York, East Village, Arts News
Marina Cashdan

Lee Bontecou is among my favorite living artists, so it was with great pleasure that I spent an afternoon at the MoMA exhibition "Lee Bontecou: All Fr...

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Culture Zohn: Louise Bourgeois, Spiderwoman

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Goldwater, New School, Lillian Hellman, Guggenheim Museum, Duchamp, Amei Wallach, Louise Bourgeois, Stanley Hater, Museum of Modern Art, Mary Mccarthy, Mondrian, Leger, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-06-16-outsidespider.jpg The French-born but American-in-spirit artist died on May 31 at 98. Her spiders show simultaneous arachno-grace and arachno-fierceness. Her work and person both expressed this artful duality.

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Louise Bourgeois DEAD: Sculptor, Artist Dies, Aged 98

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois Dead, Louise Bourgeois Art, Louise Bourgeois Sculpture, Feminism, Women in Art, Artist Louise Bourgeois, Arts News

NEW YORK — Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on...

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Vice Founder Suroosh Alvi, John Currin, Louise Bourgeois All Living Large In East Village

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice Magazine, East Village, Suroosh Alvi, Louise Bourgeois, Suroosh Alvi East Village, New York, New York City, John Currin, William Ivey Long, New York News

Vice is cooler than your cool uncle's cool uncle. It has photographs of naked polyglot brunettes, impeccably cruel music reviews, crueler Dos and Don'...

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Do You Know the Muffin Man? Yes, He Lives Down the Block

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Brian Murray, Louise Bourgeois, Marie Mullen, Martin McDonagh, The Muffin House, Thomas' English Muffins, West 20th Street, David Mamet, Samuel Bath Thomas, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Atlantic Theater Company, William Ivey Long, Ben-Zion, New York News
David Finkle

If it hadn't been for Karen, the mailperson, I still wouldn't know about The Muffin House and its importance to history and to my block, West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

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Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor

Barbara Bloemink | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katonah Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois, Katonah New York, Cat Chow, Fashion as Art, Clothing as Metaphor, Barbara Bloemink, Style News
Barbara Bloemink

Are we what we wear? The summer exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art shows that artists all over the world are now using clothing as a metaphor for shared, as well as personal, concerns.

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I (Heart) Gen Art: 15th Anniversary Benefit with Zac Posen, a NY Housewife and Miss USA

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gen Art Foundation, Miss USA, Whitney Port, Adrien Grenier, Olivia Palmero, Louise Bourgeois, Kristen-Dalton, Zac Posen, Nick-Zinner, Liveblogging, Gen Art, Campari, Mattia Baigi, DJ Spooky, The-City-Whitney-Port, Red Carpet, Mtv the City, Fashion, Real Housewives of New York City, Alex McCord, Healthy Living News
Marissa Bronfman

Zac Posen had his first show at Gen Art and told me, "It's so important to give a platform for all these amazing young artists... there should be more like it!"

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Longer Days, Better Art

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Art Exhibits, Moma, Artchicago, Richard Hunt, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Di Suvero, Chicago Art Shows, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Claes Oldenburg, Chicago Art Galleries, Jonquil Park, Chicago News
Paul Klein

Despite his art being highly visible from Midway Airport to Jonquil Park, Chicago's treated Richard Hunt more as a token than a talent.

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The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: Phil Spector, Louise Bourgeois and the Poor of Peru

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heddy Honigmann, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Louise Bourgeois, Amei Wallach, Dimitri Eipedes, Presumed Guilty, Phil Spector, Spector Convicted, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

At a documentary festival one has the impression of being among a noble group of people actively reflecting on the world (and what makes it better, a world not their own).

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