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Beyond Form review: the dogged gunk rockers who besieged the art world – and the disco

From Bridget Riley’s grids to Louise Bourgeois’s phallic bulges, this show is a glorious celebration of female abstract artists whose often-denigrated work now feels unstoppable

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OPINION - London must now defend its status as Europe's best city for art

Reflecting on London's art scene from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s ignites a rush of excitement for me, marked by the opening of Tate Modern, the captivating Louise Bourgeois installation at the Turbine Hall, the birth of Frieze Art Fair, the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall, and the emergence…

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'A deeply thoughtful and sensuous show': a rarely experienced intimacy with Louise Bourgeois

As you make your way towards the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you will come across the giant sinewy bronze legs of the artist’s monumental sculpture Maman (“mum” in French) looming near the entrance.

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Robert Mapplethorpe: Subject Object Image review – penises, perfection and Patti Smith

This being Mapplethorpe, phallic imagery is in abundance – but do we really need a room of dull celebrity portraits?

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From Tracey Emin to Kiki Smith: National Gallery of Australia puts art by women in the spotlight

A new exhibition in Canberra charts how women artists of the 20th century have been consumed with the body – and changed the way it has been depicted

The Guardian - AU

Nightmarish, playful, erotic: the revelatory Sydney show of art titan Louise Bourgeois

Spanning almost 130 works – including a number of showstoppers – the Art Gallery of NSW pays homage to the strange fruits of the late artist’s psyche

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Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: I've suffered through E.coli hell to see the work of the great Louise Bourgeois

It’s 6am in the morning, I’m in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been here for about 30 hours now and to be honest I’ve spent most of the time asleep, dreaming. Strange dreams mainly to do with death and journeys and art and fear. In fact, all to do with fear.

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From eerie to obscure, her art the story of being human

A new art installation has used the theme of day and night to traverse the spectrum of human emotion and the ideas of the unconscious.

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Ten metres high and 10 tonnes: Louise Bourgeois’ giant spider crawls into Sydney

Titled Maman, the bronze, steel and marble arachnid will be the looming centrepiece of the Art Gallery of NSW’s major summer exhibition

The Guardian - AU

Power, space and fantasy: what to look out for at Art Basel 2023

Art Basel 2023 (15 – 18 June) unites site-specific pieces with large-scale installations

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A case of heartbreak? I prescribe Tracey Emin’s neons and Paula Rego’s dancers

At moments when we need to start all over again, great art is there to salve our wounded feelings and help point the way to the future

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Too cramped? Too big? No name: Sydney’s newest art gallery weathers critique in its first months

As the controversial new gallery known as Sydney Modern makes it through its first summer, visitors and critics are divided on whether it is living up to its promise

The Guardian - AU

Top 10 badly behaved biographies

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

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Abstract pioneer leads Sydney's blockbuster art line up

Seminal works by three of the behemoths of the art world will go on display in Sydney as part of a program designed to attract thousands to the harbour city.

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Bourgeois spiders and Kandinsky masterpieces: Sydney set for a summer of blockbuster art

Exhibitions for Paris-born sculptor, the pioneering Russian painter and ‘one of the greatest living artists’ are all headed for Australia this summer

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‘I find myself choked up with the emotions’: TikTok’s trainspotter sensation Francis Bourgeois

Celebrity and trainspotter are not words you see together very often. But Francis Bourgeois’ unique style and infectious enthusiasm is proving to be a ‘hellfire’ hit

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girls girls girls review – Simone Rocha curates a dazzling display of art by women

The fashion designer has brought together an impressively varied international collection of heavy hitters and emerging artists in a fairytale setting

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Feminist stories and dangerous bodies: Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Julienne van Loon

I first discovered Siri Hustvedt through her best known novel, What I Loved (2003), which caught my attention through Janet Burroway’s review in the New York Times: “that rare thing: a page turner at full intellectual stretch”.

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What links Louise Bourgeois to Jay-Z’s comeback album?

As the artist gets a London retrospective, take a dive down the rabbit hole via Gwyneth Paltrow’s house and Kara Walker

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Needle and dread: Louise Bourgeois’s disturbing textile works

Severed heads, fraying stitches and exposed bodily orifices feature in a new exhibition of the artist’s late works in fabric

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Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review – everyday horror shows that reel you in

Strange, horrific, eerie, beautiful, this huge survey reveals an artist who both embraced and disdained the female realm

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Sex, stitches and psychic wounds – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review

These sewn-together body parts – dangling from the ceiling, hung out on stands or having sex in vitrines – were created in the final decades of the artist’s long career. They are provocative, scary and marvellous

Evening Standard

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at the Hayward Gallery review: spellbinding

The first show in Britain to focus on the artist’s textile works is suitably unsettling

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Simone Rocha’s ode to the great Louise Bourgeois

Ahead of a new exhibition opening at the Hayward Gallery focusing on Louise Bourgeois’ textile works, Simone Rocha tells ES why the artist is one of her greatest influences

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