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Louise Bourgeois Sculpture in NOLA Vandalized, Leaves Town [UPDATED]
Louise Bourgeois’s “Eye Benches IV” (2001) in Lafayette Park, New Orleans (via sculptureforneworleans.org) Louise Bourgeois’s “Eye Benches IV” (2001) was loaned to the city of New Orleans in 2007 as a...
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Painter, sculptor and all-around legendary artist Louise Bourgeois lived through most of the important moments in the development of modern art before she died at age 98 in 2010. This means that she...
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Is The Art Show a Senior Citizen’s Swinger’s Club Past its Prime?
Left to right, William Klein, "Candystory, New York, 1955" (1955) at Greenberg, installation shot of Kathy Butterly at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and Gunther Uecker, "Kleine Wolke (Small Cloud)" (1963) at...
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Art in London: 5 Things to See Right Now
LONDON — Sunshine, that capricious and all together rare visitor to this sceptr’d isle, has made an unscheduled stop in London this month. Basked in spring heat, the capital’s young and old have flung...
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Artists You Thought You Knew Go Sci-Fi
What we tend to think of when we think "hologram" is this scene from the original Star Wars film, and what they really look like in a gallery is like the James Turrell on the right (via artnewyorkcity)...
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Anointing Art’s Female Popes
Two busts of Rodin by Camille Claudel, and between them, a bust of Claudel by Rodin, at the Collection Lambert (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) AVIGNON, France — Camille Claudel was an...
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Castello di Ama: Contemporary Masters in the Tuscan Countryside
Carlos Garaicoa’s “Yo no quire ver mas a mis vecinos” (2006) and the landscape around Castello di Ama (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) SIENA, Italy — At the bottom of...
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Reconsidering Germaine Richier’s Spectral Sculpture
Installation view of ‘Germaine Richier’ at Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Among France’s postwar female sculptors, Germaine Richier, and her...
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Peter Zumthor’s Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
Part of Peter Zumthor’s developing zinc mine museum in Norway in October 2014 (Photo: Arne Espeland/Kon- Sul AS) Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter...
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum’s First Show
Installation view, Whitney Museum, with work by George Segal, Keith Sonnier, and Peter Saul, from left to right (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney...
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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century
Installation view of “Racing Thoughts,” part of “America is Hard to See” at the Whitney Museum of American Art (all photographs by Jillian Steinhauer) With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition...
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Every Architectural Rendering Needs an Alexander Calder Sculpture
Elements of Alexander Calder’s “Trepied” (1972) in Shigeru Ban Architects’ design for the Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport (image courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects) What is it about Alexander Calder...
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Louise Bourgeois Peels a Tangerine
After family dinners, Louise Bourgeois says of her childhood, everyone “was supposed to bring some kind of entertainment.” You were “supposed to sing,” “supposed to recite,” “supposed to be …...
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Sussing Out Subtlety at the Frieze Art Fairs in London
Carpet sweepers at Frieze London 2015 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LONDON — Last year was my first Frieze London fair, and I was baffled that it could seem so desultory, given that it...
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A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
Sarah Lucas, “Mumum” (2012) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise) MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of...
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Rare, Candid Photos Show Louise Bourgeois in Her Home and Studio
Jean-François Jaussaud, Louise Bourgeois with “Maman,” Brooklyn (all photos © Jean-François Jaussaud, all art © the Easton Foundation; all images courtesy Jean-François Jaussaud, the Easton...
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Bodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA
Louis Soutter, “Head” (1939), oil on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the artist (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) World War II signaled the death of...
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Louise Bourgeois’s Anxieties Find a Home in Moscow’s Art Garage
Louis Bourgeois’s “Maman” (1999) in front of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (photo by Egor Slizyak, © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art) MOSCOW — Should you find yourself among the fountains and...
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The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built
Frederick Kiesler, “Endless House” (Project, 1950–60), exterior view of the model in 1958, gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 in (courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Architecture and Design...
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A Los Angeles Mega-Gallery Opens with Museum Ambitions
The exterior of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on 3rd Street (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the local outpost of mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth,...
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