Louise Bourgeois: Paintings Through Aug. 7 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, the second of three children – a disappointment to her father, who wanted a son. Her parents ran a small family firm which restored antique tapestries.

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 ...

Even before the artist appears on camera, the documentary Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine pulls no punches about what kind of woman we’re dealing with. “You have ...

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: FEMME Through May 21 at the Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, and through April 23 at the Contemporary Museum, 100 W. Centre St., Baltimore.

Room for the Eight-Legged Louise Bourgeois, the French-born sculptor, who lives in a 15-foot-wide town house on West 20th Street, is about to get some additional elbow room.

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine This complex, utterly fascinating docu evolves in almost as varied and unpredictable ways as has its 96-year-old subject, famed ...

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.

On View Louise Bourgeois Joins the Ranks of Classical Masters at Rome’s Galleria Borghese The French-American sculptor's suggestive work explored many of the same themes as the Old Masters.

Topline One of the larger-than-life spider sculptures by famed French-American artist Louise Bourgeois will likely become among the most expensive sculptures to ever sell at auction in Asia when ...

This is Louise Bourgeois ’s 30-foot bronze “Maman” (1999). Like so many of her sculptures, “Maman” inspires a jarring combination of revulsion and the intense desire for physical contact.

French-born artist Louise Bourgeois devoted her long career to making sculptures about her troubled childhood—creating wooden totems, bulbous fabric bodies and giant bronze spiders that hinted ...