Louise Bourgeois

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The power of 'Cool'

A contemporary-art show at Bowdoin is a must-see
"New York Cool" is required viewing for anyone who has an interest in contemporary American art. Comprised of nearly 80 works, the show, at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through July 19.
By KEN GREENLEAF | May 18, 2009

Instant messages

Cindy Bernard at the Mills Gallery, Do-Ho Suh at Tufts, ‘Human Nature(S)’ At The Worcester Art Museum
The immediacy of communicating personal information that Internet culture and high bandwidth provide is not part of the new exhibition at the Mills Gallery, which eschews digital technology altogether.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 09, 2008

Louise Bourgeois: the Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine

A remarkable and ambitious documentary
What we learn, in intimate conversations at her Brooklyn studio, is that she remains furious, 80 years later, that her father in France took a mistress in front of her mother.
By GERALD PEARY | November 04, 2008

Untold tales

Bebe Miller at the ICA, Kelley Donovan at the Dance Complex
Some dances are made on specific story lines that they keep to themselves.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 26, 2007

All dolled up

Misaki Kawai and Louise Bourgeois at the ICA
Misaki Kawai’s Space House is what Barbie’s Dream House would look like if Barbie weren’t such a stuck-up square plastic bimbo.
By GREG COOK | April 09, 2007

Going deep

One-person shows dominate, Cyberarts proliferate, and a few artists collaborate
A gaggle of big solo shows share the art waves with that powerful influx of computer-reliant art known as the Boston Cyberarts Festival this season.
By RANDI HOPKINS | March 13, 2007

Objects of desire

Louise Bourgeois and Misaki Kawai at the ICA, Robert Parker at BU, and Eric Gordon at Art Interactive
It’s hard to avoid thinking about Freud when contemplating the richly symbolic, highly sexual sculpture and drawing of Louise Bourgeois.
By RANDI HOPKINS | March 13, 2007

Fresh forms

Cristin Searles’s playful “Installation”
Providence artist Cristin Searles’s cloth sculptures sprout from the walls of Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery like an infestation — but in a good way.
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2006

Touchy feely

Cecily Brown’s paintings at the MFA, Louise Bourgeois’s dolls in Worcester
Art-world sophisticates are schooled not to hunt for hidden pictures in abstract paintings, but that’s just what Cecily Brown encourages.
By GREG COOK | November 21, 2006

Fight the power

Artists protest war, scrutinize surveillance, explore usefulness, and embrace couture
Art mixes it up with history and politics, peers closely at electronic surveillance, worries about its own usefulness, traipses down the fashion runway, and brings cool stuff back from China and Puerto Rico in exhibitions opening this fall.
By RANDI HOPKINS | September 13, 2006