The grandmother of the art world has died. Louise Bourgeois was a force, a legend, and a personal hero. Still painting and sculpting well into her 90s, she seemed to ripen with age. During her prolific career, she developed a personal symbolic language of spiders, cell-like rooms and intertwined lovers, always placing humor and emotion [...]
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Dossier & Exit Art Event: June 4th
June 1, 2010 – 10:35 am
This Friday, June 4th, we’re co-hosting a preview party for the Exit Art Ecstasy Benefit Auction. Proceeds from the auction—which includes artists like the recently deceased, forever impressive Louise Bourgeois, Alfredo Jaar, Yoko Ono and Swoon—go to support new, adventurous voices who explore and articulate contemporary history: social, political and everything in between. So come get [...]
