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 ...

I n September ​ , a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise ...

Louise Bourgeois remains best known for her spider sculptures, cell installations, and uncanny sewn figures, but print- and book-making sustained her practice for decades. Beginning with tightly ...

Robert Mapplethorpe’s iconic 1982 portrait of Louise Bourgeois, who died yesterday at 98, speaks volumes about Bourgeois’s free-spiritedness, grace, tenacity, and the kinky perversity of her work. In ...

Louise Bourgeois, “Untitled” (detail) (1998–2014), suite of eight holograms, each about 11 x 14 inches (all images courtesy Cheim & Read) A long time ago, when I was a teenager and just starting to ...

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, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98.

As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. French-American artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois photographed in her studio in the ...