Tag Archives: Louise Bourgeois

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA recently launched their redesigned website with the initiative Explore Modern Art, an online learning environment and interactive space that integrates the museum’s collections information, calendar of public programs and …

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

Take a break from the solemnity and doom ‘n gloom of the art world by checking out the work of one Eric Doeringer.  The Brooklyn-based artist has a solo show …

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Currently showing as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art on Film series – Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine, by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajoli, …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self-effacing, the …

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

If you missed Louise Bourgeois (Season 2) at the Guggenheim recently, your next opportunity to see the artist’s first major retrospective in 25 years will be at the Museum of …

Nochlin on Bourgeois at Guggenheim Tonight!

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 16, 2008

Nochlin on Bourgeois at Guggenheim Tonight!

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 16, 2008

Scholar Linda Nochlin discusses Louise Bourgeois’ “late style” within the context of the artist’s long and distinguished career. Focusing on the Bourgeois’ recent stuffed fabric sculptures, Nochlin contrasts this characteristic …

Louise Bourgeois at Cheim & Read

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 12, 2008

Louise Bourgeois at Cheim & Read

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 12, 2008

While the major exhibition Louise Bourgeois is still on view at the Guggenheim, a display of recent sculptures and gouaches by the Season 2 artist recently opened at Cheim & Read. The sculptures, entitled Echo, date from 2007 …

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

On the occassion of the 2008 Olympic Games, the new American Embassy in Beijing opened last Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Though not as prominent as the architectural “monuments” of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

While vacationing locally this summer (since that’s all anyone has gas money for) and taking the necessary steps to slow down in order to feed your imagination and even your …

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly is a dual-part summer show that just opened at Gavin Brown Enterprises and Maccarone Gallery in the West Village. The neighboring galleries conceptually explore the back and forth …

Bourgeois at Anthology Film Archives

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 7, 2008

Bourgeois at Anthology Film Archives

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 7, 2008

On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois’s Guggenheim retrospective exhibition, Anthology Film Archives will present Brigitte Cornand’s trilogy of films about the artist. Screening July 9-20, Louise Bourgeois: Portrait Trilogy 1995-2007 …

Louise Bourgeois at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 2, 2008

Louise Bourgeois at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 2, 2008

In the mid-nineteenth-century, Botany was regularly taught to medical students. Because they did not yet have that invention known as the slide lecture, large illustrations of plants were instead hung …

A Year in Drawing at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2008

A Year in Drawing at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2008

A Year in Drawing opened last week at Galerie Lelong’s New York space. From the light-handed to the potent, the drawings reflect a wide range of sensibilities, subject matter, and …

Bourgeois at NY Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 24, 2008

Bourgeois at NY Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 24, 2008

The traveling retrospective exhibition of works by Season 2 artist Louise Bourgeois opens at the Guggenheim Museum, New York on Friday, June 27. Corresponding with the exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: The …

Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered

by Marc Mayer | Jun 20, 2008

Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered

by Marc Mayer | Jun 20, 2008

In anticipation of Art21 (Season 1) artist Louise Bourgeois‘ full-career retrospective, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presents a free concert on Saturday evening, June 21 titled Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered. …

The Puppet Show in Santa Monica

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 16, 2008

The Puppet Show in Santa Monica

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 16, 2008

Taking Alfred Jarry’s 1896 Ubu Roi as its historic point of departure, The Puppet Show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art includes work by 28 artists, including Art:21 alumni …

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Opening this Saturday at Hauser & Wirth Zurich is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’ (Season 1) beautiful series on paper La Rivière Gentille (2007). Occupying three tiers around the gallery, …

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Art21 artist (Season 3) Cai Guo-Qiang‘s exhibition I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim Museum may go down as the most-documented show on video of 2008 in New York. However, …

(Artist) Frays Book

by Ben Street | May 20, 2008

(Artist) Frays Book

by Ben Street | May 20, 2008

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s latest exhibition, Blood on Paper: The Art of The Book, showcases book-based work by a wealth of modern and contemporary artists, including Cai Guo-Qiang and …

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

These big metallic tulips aren’t just going to be on view in Spain, where they are permanently installed along the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao‘s riverside façade, above. An edition of Tulips …

MATRIX/REDUX at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 30, 2008

MATRIX/REDUX at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 30, 2008

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the MATRIX exhibition program with a year-long series of events, beginning with MATRIX/REDUX (on view through …

Louise Bourgeois’ Awakening

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 28, 2008

Louise Bourgeois’ Awakening

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 28, 2008

From yesterday’s Observer there is a fascinating article about the “epidemic”, “affliction” and “nocturnal literacy” that is insomnia. Included is a bit on Louise Bourgeois (Season 1), who the journalist …

Walker and Bourgeois in Flaunt Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 21, 2008

Walker and Bourgeois in Flaunt Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 21, 2008

The Spring 2008 fashion issue of the arts and entertainment glossy, Flaunt Magazine, features Art21 artists Kara Walker (Season 2) and Louise Bourgeois (Season 1). While Walker’s work is currently …

Video: TateShots on Louise Bourgeois

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 11, 2008

Video: TateShots on Louise Bourgeois

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 11, 2008

In Issue 9 of the TateShots online video series, Tate curator Frances Morris presents an overview of Season 1 artist Louise Bourgeois current Tate retrospective (on view until January 20) …

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007 was a landmark year for many Art21 artists. Apart from the accolades and prizes bestowed upon such artists as Kara Walker, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jessica Stockholder, Kerry James Marshall, …

The Sum of Its Parts

by Ana Otero | Jan 3, 2008

The Sum of Its Parts

by Ana Otero | Jan 3, 2008

Next week, New York gallery Cheim & Read will open a group show of works by twelve artists, among them Art21-featured artists Jenny Holzer (Season 4), Roni Horn (Season 3), …

Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective

by Ana Otero | Oct 31, 2007

Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective

by Ana Otero | Oct 31, 2007

  The Tate Modern in London presents a traveling exhibition of more than 200 works by one of the world‚Äôs most respected sculptors, Louise Bourgeois. The retrospective exhibition includes early …

Circa 70 feat. Louise Bourgeois closes Friday

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 29, 2007

Circa 70 feat. Louise Bourgeois closes Friday

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 29, 2007

This Friday is the last day to view the exhibition Circa 70 at Cheim & Read Gallery, featuring work by Season 1 artist Louise Bourgeois and fellow artist Lynda Benglis, …