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MUSEUMS: Happy Birthday Louise Bourgeois | HOW TO SEE the artist with MoMA Chief Curator Emerita Deborah Wye

The Museum of Modern Art

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12.25.2017

Happy Birthday to Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day, 1911!

Louise Bourgeois is perhaps best known for her sculptures of spiders and cells, but a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art focuses on the artist’s printmaking that dominated the last twenty years of her seven-decade career. MoMA Chief Curator Emerita Deborah Wye recounts her time working with Bourgeois over the last forty years, from the artist’s first MoMA exhibition in 1982 up until her death in 2010, and explores Bourgeois’ artworks and the themes that motivated her in the exhibition “Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait.”

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“Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait” is on view now through January 2018. The exhibition is organized by Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita, Prints and Illustrated Books, with Sewon Kang, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints. Plan your visit: http://mo.ma/2fC0Xx2

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Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints and Books
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The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.

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