Louise Bourgeois is best known for her haunting, deeply personal art—but few realize that the beloved French sculptor was as prolific a writer as she was an artist. When she died in 2010, Bourgeois ...

Like many of the greats of modern art, Louise Bourgeois’s practice is both very much of the 20th century and yet, somehow timeless. Much has been made of how Bourgeois, after emigrating to New York in ...

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.

Bourgeois’s art was fuelled by her need to exorcize the anxiety and the anguish that took root in her early childhood, in France. When Bourgeois was five, her mother fell ill, and never recovered; her ...

Louise Bourgeois at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1937, photographed by Brassaï (image © Brassaï/courtesy The Easton Foundation) Writing one of the ...

Some time in the mid-1990s, when the artist Louise Bourgeois was in her mid-80s, she asked her longtime assistant and friend, Jerry Gorovoy, to go to the top floor of her townhouse in Chelsea, New ...

When Joan Acocella profiled Louise Bourgeois in The New Yorker, in early 2002, the artist had just passed her ninetieth birthday, but she was very clearly, as Acocella put it, “not a dear old lady.” ...

When Louise Bourgeois’s work was exhibited, male critics balked at its palpable rage. Ten years after she died, her Red Rooms feel more powerful than ever. By Laura Maw There is nothing unusual,” ...