Louise Bourgeois’ monumental spider sculptures are her best-known works. She began them late in life, revisiting childhood traumas that shaped her art practice.

Mignon Nixon`s beautiful and provocative new monograph Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modem Art makes the case that neither Surrealism-which the artist herself disavowed-nor ...

Art & Exhibitions Surrealism Was a Decidedly Feminine Movement. So Why Have So Many of Its Great Women Artists Been Forgotten? A show in Frankfurt features 260 works by 34 female artists who were ...

Even before the artist appears on camera, the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine pulls no punches about what kind of woman we’re dealing with. “You have ...

Louise Bourgeois best known works take their place alongside artists like Bernini and Antonio Canova at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Artist Louise Bourgeois is a success story. Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois moved in Parisian surrealist circles, moved to New York, became a leader in modern art and, at 96, is among the pre ...

How Louise Bourgeois spun her father’s affair with her governess into a cannibalistic artwork Louise Bourgeois’s feelings of rage towards her father – and her governess – were reflected in ...

Louise Bourgeois’ monumental spider sculptures are her best-known works. She began them late in life, revisiting childhood traumas that shaped her art practice.