Curator, Deborah Wye: This work is titled Femme Maison. And that meant to Louise Bourgeois either “woman house” or “house woman” in French. She was a native of France and always went back and forth ...

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Pinning Matisse used pins (probably sewing pins), thumb tacks, and thin nails to secure the cut forms; for small formats the artist would work on a board while sitting in a chair or in bed. As ...

Jerry Gorovoy: I’m Jerry Gorovoy. This hanging bronze figure is called the Arch of Hysteria. Louise had actually been in psychoanalysis from 1951 all the way up until the 1980s. At the beginning of ...

In October 1843, the botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799–1871) wrote a letter to a friend. “I have lately taken in hand a rather lengthy performance,” revealed Atkins. “It is the taking ...

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: When the war start in Bosnia, it was so difficult time for me. I was not there. I was living since long time outside of the country. And I remember so many artists immediately react ...

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Karl Blossfeldt is best known for his precise photographs of plants; however, he began his career as a sculptor, completing apprenticeships at the ironworks and foundry in Mägdesprung and the ...

Olalekan Jeyifous. The Frozen Neighborhoods. 2020 Kiosk: metal, found objects, and digital media Photomontages: digital collages on Luster 260GSM Drawings: archival matte Models: wood, paper, and ...

Narrator: This work belongs to a series of paintings in which Magritte paired words and images using the format of a children’s reading primer. Curator, Anne Umland: Misnaming objects was one of ...

David Hammons once commented that “outrageously magical things happen when you mess around with a symbol." 1 For the past 50 years, Hammons has created a vocabulary of symbols from everyday life and ...