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unusual facts about Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine



Anita Steckel

She was also the founder of the arts organization "The Fight Censorship Group", whose other members included Hannah Wilke, Louise Bourgeois, Judith Bernstein, Martha Edelheit, Eunice Golden, Juanita McNeely, Barbara Nessim, Anne Sharpe and Joan Semmel.

Earth vs. the Spider

In the cave they fall onto the gigantic orb web of an enormous spider, a Mexican redleg tarantula, which emerges from behind some rocks to get them.

Edwin Manton

By 2005, the fund was worth $30m, and made possible the acquisition of major works by Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Donald Judd, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Bruce Nauman and Cildo Meireles.

Kru-Cut Records

Techno Kut records was an extension of Kru-Cut with collaboration from Unknown DJ and led to Lonzo Williams to recruiting hip-hop talent such as DJ Battlecat, The Mistress, Professor X and a few others.

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art

Recently two of Louise Bourgeois’s Maman sculptures were featured in the Sculpture Garden.

Linda Nochlin

In the conference and in the book, art historians addressed the innovative work of such figures as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Francesca Woodman, Carrie Mae Weems and Mona Hatoum in the light of the legacies of thirty years of feminist art history, appeared in 2006.

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine

She is perhaps best known for her series of massive spider structures that have been installed around the world.

Matthew Marks Gallery

The Matthew Marks Gallery had its first exhibition, Artists' Sketchbooks, in February 1991, including Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jackson Pollock, and Cy Twombly.

Peder Lund

Exhibitions include solo- and group exhibitions with artists such as Diane Arbus, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Conner, William Eggleston, Howard Hodgkin, Robert Irwin, André Kertész, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, David Reed, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Kazuo Shiraga, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Franz West, Terry Winters, Lucas Blalock and Constantin Brâncusi.

Rosemarie Trockel

At New York's Pat Hearn Gallery in 1987, Trockel's paintings were shown alongside the works of Mary Heilmann, Annette Lemieux, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

The Fabric Workshop and Museums permanent collection contains work by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Felix Gonzalex-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Reverend Howard Finster, Anish Kapoor, Robert Kushner, Glenn Ligon, Robert Morris, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and Carrie Mae Weems.


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