By Roberta Smith It is one thing to know that Louise Bourgeois made paintings. There are often a few of them in surveys of her long career as a sculptor, which reached its apogee in the 1980s and ...

Louise Bourgeois -- the French-born, New York-based artist whose sculpture is the subject of a thoughtful and thorough retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden -- turned 97 this ...

Ahead of its marquee sale in the British capital, the auction house shares a first look at the 'exceptional lots' it has selected, stressing the market is no longer about 'following the crowd' but ...

Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams are reunited in ‘Abstract Erotic’ at London’s Courtauld Gallery — and reveal much about how art’s relationship with sex has changed ...

The French-American artist Louise Bourgeois is the subject of three major shows this spring. While New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on the artist’s paintings and the Kunstmuseum ...

Louise Bourgeois, the grande dame of contemporary ... a prestigious venue in Manhattan's then-intimate art world, staged her first solo sculpture show. In 1982, Ms. Bourgeois became the first ...

Bourgeois was born in Paris on Christmas Day. Her parents repaired tapestries, and Louise's first art experiences were in pitching in on the mending. Her mother, Joséphine, was an ardent follower ...

Artist Louise Bourgeois died in New York at the age of 98 Monday. Known primarily as a sculptor, Bourgeois was a leading figure in 20th century art. Her works were provocative and disturbing ...

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.

“My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things,” the late artist Louise Bourgeois said in a 1992 conversation with the author Christiane Meyer-Thoss. “I don’t do that. I destroy thing ...

Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on ...