Artist: Louise Bourgeois (1911 - )
Nationality: French-American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Louis Bourgeois was born in Paris and trained there under Leger. In 1938, she married American art historian Rover Goldwater and moved to New York. There, she began her artistic career as a painter and printmaker but eventually turned to sculpture in the late 1940’s. Her abstract work incorporates the use of stone, metal and latex. In 1933, Bourgeois represented the United States and the Venice Biennale.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Louise Bourgeois - Quarantania, III 1949-50 bronze The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spring 1949 balsa wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spider 1996-1997 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Mortise 1950 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Articulated Lair 1986 painted steel, rubbe The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Sleeping Figure 1950 painted balsa wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - The Winged Figure 1948-1991 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Untitled (with foot) 1989 pink marble Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Eyes, 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911)Marble; H. 74-3/4, W. 54, D. 45-3/4 in.
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Louise M. Glazier Bookplate: Ex Libris, Louise M. Glazier wood engraving 1900
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Louise Bourgeois - The Blind Leading The Blind 1947-1949 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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Louise-Antoinette Feuardent
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Louise Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Francisco de Goya - Therese Louise de Sureda c. 1803-1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Bacchante oil on canvas 1785
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John Singer Sargent - Portraits de M.E.P. . . .et de Mlle L.P. (Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron) 1881 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Anonymous Marie Josephe Louise de Savoie 19th century
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Loiuse de Keroualle
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Anonymous Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise Lithograph 19th century
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Mrs. Charles E. Inches (Louise Pomeroy) 1887 Oil on canvas
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Jean Antoine Houdon - Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domageville de Serilly, Comtesse de Pange n.d. marble The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Charles Dorman Robinson Lake Louise oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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© 2001 Estate of Louise Nevelson/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Louise Nevelson,
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Louise Nevelson Inner View Color lithograph with collage 1965
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Morris Henry Hobbs Louise Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Charles Edward Wagstaff Louise de Querouvaille, Duchess of Portsmouth 19th century
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Louise Nevelson Cat Etching and aquatint on Rives BFK paper 1965
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Mondain Marie Louise engraving and etching 19th century
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Artist: Louise Nevelson Title: Figure Date: 1953 - 1955 Medium: etching and aquatint Dimensions: H.13-11/16
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Louise Nevelson Sunken Cathedral etching and drypointon Japan paper 1953 - 1955
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Francois-Seraphin Delpech Louise deSavoy , Duchess of d,Angouleme 1500 18th - 19th century
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Nicolas de Larmessin Portrait of Elisabeth Marie Louise Infante De Portugal 17th - 18th century
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Louise Nevelson Dawnscape Cast paper pulp 1978
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Elisabeth Louise de duchesse de Chabot La Rochefoucauld Visit to Grandfather graphite and black chalk under ink with watercolor 18th century
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Louise Halévy Reclining
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont The Falls at Tivoli oil on paper laid on canvas 1826
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont View of the Falls at Tivoli (Vues des Cascades de Tivoli) oil on canvas circa 1826
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Louise-Madeleine Cochin Seance Ordinare des Etats de Languedoc Etching 18th - 19th century
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Fl¸gel Marie Louise d'Autriche, Imperatrice des Francais, Reine d'Italie stipple engraving 19th century
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Jean Baptist Louis Massard Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise ,Archduchess of Austria 18th - 19th century
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, (formerlyCount.of Mornington) oil on canvas 1791
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Gustav Adolf Muller Louise Elisabeth VigeÈ Le Brun de l'AcadÈmie Royale de Peinture 18th century
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Charles Melchoir Descourtis Frederique Louise Wilhelmine de Prusse Aquatint in colors 18th - 19th century
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Stephen de Hospodar Louise, sixteenth plate in the book Block Prints (Los Angeles: privately printed, 1932) woodcut 1932
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Flintlock Gun, ca. 1620 Made by Pierre Le Bourgeois (died 1627)French (Lisieux)Steel, chiseled, blued, and
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Eugene Berman Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: costume design for a young girl watercolor 1944
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Louise Halévy Reading to Degas
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Louise B. Maloney - Antonia 1923 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Louise Cherwak - The Survivor 1999 graphite on paper Polk Museum of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - End of Day Nightscape V 1973 painted wood The McNay Art Museum American
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Self-portrait Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on canvas; Oval, 25 1/4 x 21
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Self-Portrait c. 1781 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Louise Galtier-BoissiËre [Fountain seen through trees] - from the Portfolio Les Cartons D'Estampes GravÈes Sur Bois, Ouvrage Corporative (Portfolio of wood engravings after works of various French artists) wood engraving 1919
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Sandra Louise Skoglund - Fox Games 1989 Cibachrome print Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami American
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Lidded Bowl on Dish
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Charles Edouard De Beaumont Croquis Parisiens - Tiens...il parait que ton bourgeois a la meme idÈe... Lithograph 19th century
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Louise Galtier-BoissiËre [Still Life with Vase of Flowers] - from the Portfolio Les Cartons D'Estampes GravÈes Sur Bois, Ouvrage Corporative (Portfolio of wood engravings after works of various French artists) wood engraving 1919
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Comtesse Louise-Rose-Julie Duvidal De Montferrier Bacchus Enfant...sixty seventh plate in the book...Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph 18th
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Clement Pruche Les Domestiques: Je suis si bonne! que les enfans de mes bourgeois sont heureux!! Lithograph 19th century
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Artist: Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun Title: Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi, née Parr
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Louise Nevelson - Black Wall 1964 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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Louise Nevelson - Ancient City 1945-1955 Painted Wood Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Full Moon 1980 Cast polyester resin The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Night Landscape 1955 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Moon Fountain 1957 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Winter Garden 1975 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Louise Nevelson - Hanging Column 1959 painted wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Nevelson - Homage to the World 1966 painted wood The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of a Young Boy 1817 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - The Comte de Vandreuil 1784 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Louise B. Maloney - Cat-Tails and Honesty 1931 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Crispijn I de Passe Louise Julienne, Wife to Frederick IV, Elector Palatinate of the Rhine Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery ; Larry Calcagno, American, 1913-1993 Night Phenomena: Arizona Red 1962 Oil on
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Four Wall Lights
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Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti (1726-1759), Later Duchesse d"Orléans Jean Marc Nattier (French, 1685-1766)Oil on canvas;
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Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1747-1815), 1787 Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842)Oil on
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Paul Weber, German, 1823-1916 Swiss Landscape 1859 Graphite Sheet: 16.3 x 13.9 cm (6 7/16
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Louise Halévy
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Alexandre Calame, Swiss, 1810-1864 Swiss Landscape 1844 Watercolor on paper Sheet: 20.2 x 27.4 cm
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Louise Nevelson - Sky Cathedral/ Southern Mountain 1959 Wood painted black The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of Princess Belozersky 1798 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of a Russian Countess 1797 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Sandra Louise Skoglund - Babies at Paradise Pond 1996 lithograph Smith College Museum of Art American
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Portrait of Madame du Barry 1782 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art French
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William Hart, American, 1823-1894 River in Autumn 1863 Oil on canvas 46.35 x 82.55 cm
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Willem Roelofs, Netherlandish, 1822-1897 River Landscape 19th century Watercolor on paper 49 x 70 cm
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, French, 1755-1842 Study of a Woman undated Red chalk Sheet:
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George Inness, American, 1825-1894 The Church Spire 1875 Oil on canvas 51.12 x 76.52 cm
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George Caleb Bingham, American, 1811-1879 Landscape with Waterwheel and Boy Fishing Oil on canvas 63.82
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun - Portrait of Madame Therese Vestris 1803 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts French
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Theresa, Countess Kinsky 1793 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum French
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Louise Moillon - Still Life with Cherries, Strawberries and Gooseberries 1630 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum French
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Johann Christian Rauschner, American, 1760–after 1812 Portrait of Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner United States, Massachusetts,
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Johann Christian Rauschner, American, 1760–after 1812 Portrait of Mrs. Catherine C. Hillier Graupner United States,
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Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun - Princess Eudocia Nanovna Galitzine as Flora 1799 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts French
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Bernard Palissy Pitcher with Lid pewter and tin-glazed earthenware 1692
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucqoi 1793 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun - Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France c. 1788 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of a Woman (Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque) Albumen print mounted to a heavier sheet 1868

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Louise Bourgeois Prints: 1989-1998
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Tate Modern: The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois
Three large steel towers, about 30 feet high, dominate the east end of the Turbine Hall. Each tower supports a platform on which two chairs are surrounded by a series of large swivel mirrors. The mirrors with their reflective surfa...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Louise Bourgeois: Aller – Retour
One room offers a retrospective of older works by the French born artist. The focus of the show however lies on the oeuvre of the last ten years, the majority of which are diary-like drawings, in which text and symbols frequently mingle. The...
Historische Museum, Museen Der Stadt Wien: Journey to Vienna: Photographs from 1860-1910
Thus, on May 1, 1873 the Fifth World Exhibition open on the Prater in Vienna. During this period of stormy economic development photography studios were cleary influenced by it. A good clientle was the self-emanzipating bourgeois.Through photog...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Louise Bourgeois: First Retrospective in Denmark
The exhibition, organized in cooperation with the artist herself, includes works on loan from all over the world, offering examples of all the most important categories of her artistic output: the very little-known paintings and slender, statuesqu...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time
Over 20 pieces, most created in the last three years, are accompanied by a selection of the artist’s graphic work including He disappeared into Complete Silence, 1946, her first major suite of etchings and poems in which she unfolds tales of loss ...
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art: Widening Circle: 1990s International Acquisitions
Norwegian Mari Slaattelid, winner of the first prize in the Carnegie Art Award competition, employs different techniques to examine the dimensions of painting. Marko Vuokola's installation, displayed in the same room, suggests the ever wider field...
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga: Stitches in Time: Louise Bourgeois
Stitches in Time features 20 of Louise Bourgeois’s most recent creations, most dating from the last three years. They include small characters, life-size sewn busts, totemic figures and display case-cells. In all of them, cloth acts as a material ...
Musee d'Orsay: Daumier
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State Hermitage Museum: Louise Bourgeois: First Major Exhibition of a Living American Artist Within the Walls of the Winter Palace
These works reveal the enormous emotional charge Bourgeois gives her creations. An installation of the Insomnia Drawings, on loan from the Daros Foundation in Switzerland, be seen in a room of the second floor of the museum. The courtyard of the H...
Museum of Arts and Sciences: Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism
Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism is an international manifestation of contemporary art, organised by the Rotterdam City Collection. It comprises a group exhibition, a catalogue and a poster presentation and encompasses the expansion of Rotterdam a...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
National Academy of Design: Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003
A strength of this exhibition is the numerous self-portraits by women artists. One membership requirement of newly elected Academicians is that all must donate a portrait of themselves to the museum's permanent collection. This has provided the Ac...
NSA Gallery: Inside: Looking In by Linda Jones
The artist states that the exhibition explores an inner space as well as an outer space. These images speak of a defining of my own space – a reclaiming and negotiation of space. Spaces that are visible and others that are somehow private and inac...
Museo del Prado: Fortuny, Madrazo and Rico. The Ramon de Errazu Bequest
The core of the bequest is the group of ten works by Mariano Fortuny. It includes major compositions such as Nude on the Beach at Portici, a masterpiece and synthesis of the artist’s late style, as well as Elderly Nude in the Sun, a work that look...
Galerie St. Etienne: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
"COMING OF AGE" also includes works by Erich Heckel, E.L. Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and others. At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase between childhood...
Swope Art Museum: Call for Artists: 59th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibit
Larry Rinder has curated numerous art shows including exhibits by renowned artists Louise Bourgeois, Richard Diebenkorn, and the prestigious Whitney Biennial. Widely published and respected, Rinder has taught at both Columbia University and the Un...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Generali Foundation: Things We Don't Understand
Is there a difference between aesthetic experience and the experiences of our daily life? The artists of this show use found objects, documentary photographs, conv...
Tate Modern: Juan Munoz: new sculpture unveiled
Juan Muñoz is renowned for sculptural works in which he situates the human figure within elaborate or complex architectural settings. These are created using elements such as patterned floors, staircases and balconies. Then, by a ...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
Espace Arlaud: Plastic
Anne Bourgeois Meier imagined dancers embalm, playing with their forms, the transparency and fluidity of plastic. Isabelle Fink always works with supple forms and creates gigantic works, sometimes that fly. Youri Messen-Jaschin integrates supple e...
Chambers Fine Art: Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua
Unlike the younger generation of artists who have for the most part turned their back on oil painting, Qiu Shihua found his initial inspiration in the French Impressionists whose work he saw in person for the first time in the mid-1980s. In 1989, ...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Stedelijk Museum: Grayson Perry - Guerrilla Tactics
At first sight Perry's pots stand in the centuries-old tradition of classic vases decorated with figures. They look attractive, full of colour and loaded with pictures, inscriptions and ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: WOMEN ON VIEW
These photographs are intended to show how we look and what we do, says Annie Leibovitz, and they create a vivid and striking collective portrait of women today. Im very moved by the sense of...
Telfair Museum of Art: WINDOWS TO HEAVEN: RUSSIAN ICONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DANIEL BIBB AND THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
Russian icons have a long history. The earliest Russian icons appeared in Kiev in the 10th or 11th centuries; the icons in this exhibition range in date from the late 17th to ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection
In the 1960s, Marc and Livia Straus, residents of Chappaqua, New York, began collecting contemporary works which, at the time they were made, provoked the response, Is this artNULL ...

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