Phoenix public art: Hidden in plain sight Mar 16, 2008
Fenner credits Phoenix for bringing in a sculpture by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. The 90-foot-tall sculpture of a vanity mirror rises in the atrium of the Phoenix Convention Center in downtown Phoenix. (AZCentral -- News)
Infotainment Mar 6, 2008
Giant spiderParis: French sculptor and painter Louise Bourgeois work representing a giant spider is shown at the hall of the Pompidou art center. afp. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Forty artists to explore 'Life on Mars' in International Feb 22, 2008
" Andrew Carnegie's intent was to bring the best current art to Pittsburgh as well as to attract the broader art world to the city. He also quickly recognized that by exhibiting the "Old Masters of tomorrow," his institution would have the opportunity to build its collection by purchasing work from the show. While not all artist's reputations stand the test of time, there have been notables among those whose works were acquired for the Carnegie collection through the Internationals, including... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What's On: Galleries Feb 17, 2008
Headbones, The Drawers Gallery (260 Carlaw Ave. 202B, 416-465-7352): "www.women" exhibit has works by Aleks Bartosik, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Guerrilla Girls, Julie Oakes, Monika Weiss and others. Runs Sat. (Toronto Star)
Anime exhibit part of VAG lineup Feb 9, 2008
Art and the Feminist Revolution: With works by more than 100 artists from 21 countries, including Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono and Judy Chicago, WACK. is the first comprehensive exhibit to look at the international foundations and legacy of feminist art. (Vancouver Sun)
Spider sculpture donated to Tate Jan 12, 2008
Louise Bourgeois' 9-metre-high work, titled Maman, was part of Bourgeois' inaugral commission for The Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall in 2000 ... Mr Todoli said: "To acquire Maman, one of Louise Bourgeois' best-known and seminal works, the largest of her spider sculptures, is an historic moment for Tate. "This work significantly enhances our holdings of the work of one of the world's greatest living sculptors ... The retrospective, simply titled Louise Bourgeois, runs until 20 January. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art without the artist Jan 7, 2008
Like any museum of contemporary art, the ICA is full of works built by somebody other than the artist, from Kelly Sherman's Foster Prize-winning "Wish Lists," a collection of personal wish lists gathered from the Internet, to "Cell (Hand and Mirror)," a mysterious Louise Bourgeois piece featuring a pair of carved marble hands in the center of miniature room. In Cambridge, Harvard's Carpenter Center was recently home to an installation piece of cellophane-wrapped candies laid in a golden carpet... (Boston Globe)
The National Gallery of Canada Jan 4, 2008
Entitled Maman, the arachnid of stainless steel, bronze and marble was created in 2003 by French artist Louise Bourgeois. The National Gallery of Canada is located at 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario. (Suite101.com)
The year in visual art Dec 30, 2007
The Worcester Art Museum examined the art of nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois through a narrow lens in "The Woven Child (in context)." The seven-piece show revolved around the artist's titular piece, which is in WAM's collection, and built upon it with other fabric-based works by the surrealist, whose art can be alternately comic and creepy. And an exhibit at the Addison Gallery of American Art underscored the fact that good art can be a crowd-pleaser. (Boston Globe)
Cate McQuaid's picks Dec 30, 2007
"The Woven Child (in context)" by Louise Bourgeois at the Worcester Art Museum. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
2007 in the arts Dec 29, 2007
Bookending 2007 at Tate Modern was Louise Bourgeois. Tickets bought entry into a spiralling, strange and endlessly fresh imagination. (Guardian Unlimited)
Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 16, 2007
A couple haggle over a Louise Bourgeois bronze, perfect for beside the pool. An elderly man with a stroller and oxygen tanks struggles to keep pace with his fortysomething wife, her features pulled tight as Handi-Wrap across the shrill armature of her skull. (Globe and Mail)
Flies and formaldehyde: Hirst's gifts to the Tate Dec 14, 2007
Three years ago Hirst was one of 24 artists to pledge significant works as part of Tate's Building the Tate Collection campaign, and while artists such as Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro and Louise Bourgeois had already donated, Hirst had not. The four works include a copy of Mother and Child, Divided (1993) - a cow and calf, each bisected, and displayed in tanks of formaldehyde - which he displayed at the Turner prize in 1995. (Guardian Unlimited)
Modern Photography Exhibitions Dec 2, 2007
Among the Important figures from the visual arts, literature, dance, music, theatre and film (1944-2006) included are Giorgio de Chirico, , Jasper Johns, Langston Hughes, Igor Stravinsky, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, Rudolf Nureyev and Simone de Beauvoir. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY USA: January 18-April 13, 2008. (Suite101.com)
Damien who? Will Hirst stand the test of time? Nov 25, 2007
Instead, the museums of the future will be packing in the crowds with exhibitions of Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and, believe it or not, Yoko Ono. The artistic reputation of the woman who has spent much of her life being reviled by Beatles fans for splitting up the Fab Four has undergone a transformation in recent years. (Independent)
Making contactJust what is that we go to galleries for today? Art is the least of it Nov 4, 2007
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-high menacing bronze sculptural spider first appeared at the opening of Tate Modern in London in 1999, magnificently answering the challenge of how artists would address the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall in the heart of the reclaimed Bankside Power Station ... This autumn, Tate Modern is giving us the chance to see a full range of Louise Bourgeois works in a dizzyingly wide range of media, created over a period of almost 70 years ... Make of Louise Bourgeois' Arch... (BBC News -- UK)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
Her early abstracts suggest a link in sensibility with Louise Bourgeois, who, though 20 years younger, referred to her once in an interview as "that Santa Fe girl". Most of the people who will see Arch of Hysteria at Tate Modern this autumn will not realise that it is a naked portrait of Bourgeois's right-hand-man, Jerry Gorovoy, minus his head. (Guardian Unlimited)
London Frieze Art Fair Lures Buyers, Hedge Funds as Bonus Concern Grows Oct 10, 2007
Hauser & Wirth has Louise Bourgeois, as the Tate Modern museum opens a survey of the French-born artist's work today. California's Painter has Mexican wrestler paintings priced at $60,000 to $70,000 by Salomon Huerta. (Bloomberg -- UK)
'She tells lies in the nicest way' Oct 9, 2007
Her works of many-breasted beasts, lairs and primal lumps spread confusion, but Louise Bourgeois's uninhibited creativity is as impressive as it is rare, says Adrian Searle ... Tate Modern's Louise Bourgeois retrospective is full of great things, mad things and bad things, the beautiful, the macabre and things that make you laugh out loud ... So the exhibition begins, and with it the story of Louise Bourgeois's life, which she tells and retells throughout her work, in stories and anecdotes, in... (Guardian Unlimited)
Rule Breakers Sep 8, 2007
" The show has finally made its return, this time with nearly 70 artists featured in Dangerous Women Two at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor through Oct. 6. An opening reception will be held Sept. 8 from 2 to 5 p.m. Among the more than 100 dangerous women who made Ms. Fagan's tri-state list are writer and poet Dorothy Parker, Precisionist painter Elsie Driggs, printmaker Minna Citron and sculptor Dorothea Schwartz-Greenbaum. The show is dedicated to four dangerous... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Arts Guide: Exhibits around the world Jun 27, 2007
and Max Ernst; realist nudes by Lucian Freud as well as more recent works by Louise Bourgeois and Tom Wesselmann. -- www. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Tate unveils Bourgeois show Jun 22, 2007
Tate Modern is to stage the UK's first major exhibition of work by sculptor Louise Bourgeois in October ... The exhibition, simply titled Louise Bourgeois, opens at Tate Modern on 11 October 2007 and will run until 20 January 2008. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Tate retrospective on Louise Bourgeois Jun 22, 2007
The Destruction of the Father, 1974, by Louise Bourgeois. Photograph: Courtesy Cheim and Read, Galerie Karsten Greve and Galerie Hauser Louise Bourgeois ... A major retrospective is to be held at Tate Modern of the work of 95-year-old Louise Bourgeois. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Fun, funds at LACMA gala Apr 21, 2007
"A few years ago, I proposed a work by Louise Bourgeois. That didn't go anywhere.". It's time for the next round of votes, but not before an announcement that trustee Robert Kotick has purchased the Agnes Martin prints for the museum at $127,500, removing the work from balloting and pushing the committee closer to buying everything. (Los Angeles Times)
Bourgeois for beginners Apr 8, 2007
Made in 1996 by Louise Bourgeois , the wonderful cast-bronze "Spider" is the most arresting piece in "Bourgeois in Boston," a small exhibition of works dating from the late '40s to 1999 by the revered nonagenarian sculptor. Including 10 sculptures, a painting on canvas, and a rotating selection of prints and drawings, the show will serve as an engaging -- albeit abbreviated -- introduction for visitors unacquainted with Bourgeois's viscerally sensuous, psychologically charged art. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Sculptor set for Tate Modern hall Apr 6, 2007
Other artists to have exhibited in the Turbine Hall include Louise Bourgeois, Juan Munoz, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Bruce Nauman and Rachel Whiteread. SEE ALSO 09 Oct 06 | Entertainment 19 Sep 06 | Entertainment 25 Jul 06 | Entertainment 22 May 06 | Entertainment 16 Jan 06 | Entertainment 10 Oct 05 | Entertainment. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Inviting theatrical and bombastic art Apr 6, 2007
Louise Bourgeois' big metal spiders, Anish Kapoor's big red trumpet, Olafur Eliasson's big romantic sunset - all were passing shows. Does anyone care that they happened. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Puget Sound Garden Mar 25, 2007
" In the six-panel fold-out announcement of the park's opening, there isn't a single piece of sculpture pictured -- just grass, sky, water, trees and mountains. The lead designers, New York-based Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, faced additional challenges. Crisscrossing the site are train lines and a highway and, unlike the contaminated soil, they could not be removed. So Weiss and Manfredi created a new topography that rises above this infrastructure. It can't block the noise of trains and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
A Vivid Account Mar 3, 2007
REVIEW / SFMOMA exhibition demonstrates how large Picasso loomed over American art. " It sends the visitor away with a sense of every modern artwork as the product of many minds, however many hands may have formed it. Picasso and American Art: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Through May 28. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, . E-mail Kenneth Baker at . This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle FromColma Buick... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Creativity: It's never too late to bloom Feb 4, 2007
Sculptor Louise Bourgeois is 95. Later this year, she will be honored with a retrospective at London's Tate Modern museum. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Shinsegae to decorate store with pricey artwork Jan 30, 2007
They will include world-renowned American sculptor Louise Bourgeois' 4-meter giant "Spider," which is worth 4 billion won. It will be put in the Sculpture Park, an official at Shinsegae said. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Anxiety and mystery are woven into her sculpture Jan 29, 2007
WORCESTER -- Born in Paris in 1911, a New Yorker since 1938, Louise Bourgeois is one of the last of the great, first-generation French Surrealists, and she is still, at 95, one of the most intriguing sculptors working today. Her influence is everywhere. (Boston Globe)
• Sculpture Park Draws Thousands; Fingerprints Too Jan 29, 2007
Some of the art is interactive, such as Roy McMakin's "Bench" and Louise Bourgeois' six eye benches, not yet installed. Dorman doesn't believe SAM is being too fussy about its "no-touch" policy. (Q13.com, WA)
New Seattle sculpture park 'impressive' Jan 25, 2007
A fountain at the park, "Father and Son" by Louise Bourgeois, is a story in itself. It was commissioned with a $1 million bequest from Stu Smailes, a retired Safeco computer analyst who died in 2002. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Picasso's Influence On American Artists Jan 22, 2007
One of them was the artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who painted a Picasso-style self-portrait after seeing a Picasso show. "Its actually a self-portrait or one might say a series of self-portraits a very pointed, pinched one, and this much more rounded, curvilinear one. And multiple profiles. But shes turning them to her own purpose.". (CBS News)
Seattle's new art park Jan 15, 2007
The free-admission sculpture park will feature works by Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Beverly Pepper, Teresita Fernandez, Tony Smith and about 20 other artists. It is dotted with groves of trees, native plants and trails, against the stunning backdrop view of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains (which are visible more often than Seattle's rainy reputation might suggest). (Los Angeles Times)
Talks, tours, teens, and films Dec 7, 2006
Art Loves: Louise Bourgeois. Thursday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.. (Boston Globe)
Warhol auction sets fresh record Nov 17, 2006
Records were also set for works by Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Bourgeois, Arshile Gorky and Gerhard Richter. "Tonight's sale caps an incredible two weeks at Christie's where we have seen record totals and unprecedented depth in the market in all fields," the auction house's chief executive, Edward Dolman, told news agency AFP.. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Warhol record caps off auctions' billion-dollar bonanza Nov 16, 2006
Records also fell for a host of well known artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Gerhard Richter, sculptress Louise Bourgeois and Arshile Gorky. De Kooning's Woman (Seated Woman I) sold for $US9,648,000, more than twice the high estimate and far exceeding the artist's old record for a work on paper of $US3. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Offbeat)
Elisabeth Weissensteiner: Intro-Spectatio Oct 30, 2006
It is an area of work major artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Rosemarie Trockel have explored with great success; their emotionally-charged work becoming enormously influential on several generations of artists. Weissensteiners connection to this history is one of a common artistic heritage. (AbsoluteArts.com)
A new twist at the Tate as gallery enjoys fun of the fair Oct 10, 2006
Test Site is the seventh in the annual commissions sponsored by Unilever which began in 2000 with Louise Bourgeois' spiders and have included Anish Kapoor's huge red trumpet. The stainless steel slides with plastic covers in Test Site were fabricated in Germany. (Independent)
Excitement Surrounds Denver Art Museum Addition Oct 9, 2006
Sculptor Louise Bourgeois' famed 11-foot-high spider sits next to the museum's doors. The soaring titanium-clad Libeskind wing, which opens Saturday, has already helped the museum negotiate its first-ever traveling exhibition from the Louvre Museum. (CBS 4, CO)
Tate reveals £12m purchases Sep 19, 2006
French artist Louise Bourgeois will be the subject of a retrospective in October next year ... "Louise Bourgeois of course won't be as popular as Frida Kahlo, but we should not just be simply putting on shows that break records.". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The art of the new Sep 17, 2006
This time it was a 35-foot-tall metal spider by Louise Bourgeois, which stood guard in the museum's imposing 500-foot-long, 100-foot-tall Turbine Hall. Not to be outdone, MoMA, which has the world's biggest and best collection of modern art and no inherent need to exhibit contemporary objects, also decided to get in on the game, devoting an entire floor of its new building to contemporary art and building a 110-foot-tall atrium, where it did the snake and spider one better by installing an... (Boston Globe)
Visitors marvel at 'pure Arizona' look to Convention Center Aug 27, 2006
The most obvious is the 90-foot-tall sculpture of a vanity mirror by artist Louise Bourgeois. But stand on the observation deck of the second floor and look down for mirror images of color, shape and texture. (AZCentral -- News)
Downtown gets new angle Aug 26, 2006
But the added-value details of the atrium and the Temple of Dendur portal and the public art by Louise Bourgeois and Tony Oursler, make this a building that can be point of pride for the city, something that shows a little of what makes civilization: the will to make something better than it needs to be. Reach the reporter at or (602) 444-8823. (AZCentral -- News)
The New Art Sharks Aug 25, 2006
Also on display: works by sculptors Gary Hume and Louise Bourgeois and a Christopher Wool painting. It's a dream collection, a mixture of new and not-so-new artists whose prices have increased three, five, and even seven times in recent years. (BusinessWeek)
Millions for public art Jul 29, 2006
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, a 90-foot mirror art piece by world renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois, is taking the public by storm downtown at the recently expanded Phoenix Convention Center. A second work, by Tony Oursler featuring five video projections on the floors, walls and ceiling of the convention center arcade, with imagery of places, people and landscapes of Phoenix is being installed next month. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Glass 'staircase' to create new focal point at Tate Modern Jul 27, 2006
It will enable more of the Tate's collection to be brought out of storage, including large-scale video installations by Bruce Nauman and Bill Viola, and sculptures such as Louise Bourgeois' Giant Spider. Two performance areas will be created in the oil tanks of the former power station, which was decommissioned in the 1980s, including a 400-seat auditorium and performance space. (Independent)
Best of the rest Jul 22, 2006
Expanded Modern and Contemporary Collections in conjunction with the Heffernan exhibit include new acquisitions, works on loan from the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, works by Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Allison Saar, Andy Warhol, Jean Dubuffet, Louise Bourgeois, Willie Cole, Red Grooms. Fragile Forms: Contemporary Glass From the Sonia and Isaac Luski Collection, ongoing. (The State, SC -- Living)
Workers rush to ready Convention Center by today Jul 15, 2006
The sculpture was crafted by Louise Bourgeois, a Paris-born sculptor, specifically for the Convention Center. Now a U.S. citizen, Bourgeois was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Clinton in 1997 and resides in New York. (AZCentral -- Business)
New convention center taking shape Jul 15, 2006
Louise Bourgeois, renowned New York sculptor, created a 90-foot oval mirror for the convention center. It greets residents in the main entrance, reflecting anyone who walks by, along with the words "Art is a Guaranty of Sanity.". (AZCentral -- Business)
You still have time to see Leibovitz display at art museum Jun 25, 2006
A portrait of the sculptor Louise Bourgeois was Duncan's favorite. "It's so raw. It's not covered up," she said. (Pensacola News Journal)
Seattle's funky street art Jun 3, 2006
The artist, Louise Bourgeois, proposed an unclothed father and son on separate pedestals, reaching for each other through a wall of water that shifts to show one figure at a time. But where some look sentimentally on the work, others are saying it's obscene. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pew Charitable Trusts Partner to Install Nine-Foot Sculpture by Renowned Artist Louise Bourgeois; Photo Available May 26, 2006
U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pew Charitable Trusts Partner to Install NineFoot Sculpture by Renowned Artist Louise Bourgeois...". (US Newswire)
Isms back with a vengeance in art museum's makeover May 23, 2006
Some other juxtapositions have a different kind of rightness - the pairing, across more than half a century, of Janis Kounellis and Giorgio de Chirico; Francis Bacon meets Louise Bourgeois, and a Martin Creed neon sign glows over a Carl Andre steel and copper runway. There is, in many of these coincidences, a real sense of occasion. (Guardian Unlimited)
Sharing private living room collection... Apr 30, 2006
There are Louise Bourgeois' ink works lined up on the wall while contemporary artists To Sang Bong and Chang Wook-jin's works offer an elegant backdrop for cream-colored chairs. Another private collector's room is equally diverse yet younger and decisively empty. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Seattle Waterfront to Be Reshaped by Park Feb 15, 2006
The collection will mix seminal works from sculptors Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra and Mark Di Suvero with with newly commissioned sculpture from Louise Bourgeois and Mark Dion, among others. When the park opens late this summer, visitors will descend a path that bridges a busy roadway and railroad tracks and then provides panoramic views of the Olympic mountains to the west and Seattle's skyline and port to the south. (PhillyBurbs.com)
Sculpting the feminine (Deborah K. Dietsch) Feb 11, 2006
Not Louise Bourgeois, the nonagenarian New York artist, who still likes to stir things up ... Her feminist sensibility pervades "Louise Bourgeois: Femme." The exhibit was co-created by the Walters, where most of the works are shown, and Baltimore's Contemporary Museum, which also has mounted a small display. (Washington Times)
Carsten Holler to fill Tate Modern's great hall Jan 16, 2006
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent. (The Independent, UK)
