Tag: Louise Bourgeois

Broken: The Power of the Fragment

Bringing together works from Ancient Egypt to Classical Greece, from Michelangelo to Rodin, plus contemporary artists including Louise Bourgeois and Danh Vo, this major exhibition explores how and why we still value certain things even – or especially – in…
Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today

A smorgasbord of flower paintings from the last 125 years, exploring meaning, metaphor, accuracy and artistic licence. A charming show not to be missed
Holly Stevenson – interview

Following in the female surrealist tradition, Holly Stevenson makes cathectic objects from clay, which distort and intrigue
Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams

A groundbreaking New York show from 1966 is brought back to life with the work of three women whose experimentation with materials and visualisation turned sculpture inside out
Uncanny

Louise Bourgeois, Sheida Soleimani and Gillian Wearing are among the 30 female artists contributing to a show that is challenging, unsettling and sometimes downright uncomfortable
Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs

This extensive exhibition of still life works from two major collections is full of clever visual pairings and rich in conceptual layers
The Uncanny: Sigmund Freud and Art

In works by Louise Bourgeois, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman, among others, this exhibition reveals the relationship between psychoanalysis and visual art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
The God That Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko

An intriguing exhibition situates Bourgeois’ characterful early sculptures alongside the two incipient abstract expressionists
Hulda Guzmán – interview: ‘I feel a little bad for the rest of the natural world, that it can’t laugh’

The Dominican artist Hulda Guzmán talks about the things that inspire her, her father’s influence – and not taking life too seriously