NewsAuctions
Sotheby’s offers major works by 20th century female artists in $50m Ginny Williams Collection sale
Coinciding with the auction house's New York sale room re-opening in June, the sale marks the first time female artists will comprise over two-thirds of the value of an evening auction
NewsMother's Day
National Museum of Women in the Arts honours 'complex and varied' maternal relationships for Mother's Day
Featuring works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett and others, the online series explores artists' experiences of motherhood and their connection to their own moms
ReviewBooks
‘If I don’t like your pictures, I can destroy everything': a photographer's intimate—but risky—shoots with Louise Bourgeois
In his new book the photographer Jean-François Jaussaud details how he gained the trust of the late French artist
AnalysisLouise Bourgeois
How to buy a...Louise Bourgeois
The late French artist’s phallic bronzes are not as easy to home as many of her other works, but it is the spiders that remain the most coveted— and hardest to come by
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Bodily references and plenty of Bourgeois: Ursula Hauser's collection goes on show at all female exhibition in Somerset
NewsArt market
Rabbit hops to a record $91m at Christie's as Jeff Koons once again becomes the world's most expensive living artist
Post-war and contemporary sale in New York also produced a big sale for Robert Rauschenberg and new records for Louise Bourgeois and Jonas Wood
NewsArtists
Louise Bourgeois’s Spider crawls across Brazil
The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour
PreviewExhibitions
China finally gets caught in Louise Bourgeois’s web
First major survey in Shanghai of late artist’s work includes giant spider on loan from Tate
NewsArt market
Censorship could stifle China's art market
Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art
BlogIn the frame
Letting it all hang out: exhibitions in Paris and London focus on suspended sculpture
ArchiveWomen Artists
Let us now praise famous women : Museums finally find their feminine side
A wave of exhibitions of influential female artists begins this month on both sides of the Atlantic
ArchiveExhibitions
Bourgeois’ baton taken up by Tracey Emin at Hauser & Wirth
Pieces created in collaboration by the artists are on sale now
ArchiveArt Basel
Where are the women of Art Basel?
High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands
ArchiveTate
Tate announces its exhibition schedule for 2007
Next year's schedule is packed with big names
ArchiveTate Modern
Vast Bourgeois for the new Tate as the first of five commissions
Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall
ArchiveSurrealism
How Surrealism has shaped the self-portraits of three generations of women artists
Women and Surrealism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ArchiveExhibitions
Fondazione Prada mounts show of Michael Heizer
Prada Milano Arte has already exhibited the work of David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, and Anish Kapoor
ArchiveArt market
What's on in Paris: New Rauschenbergs at Daniel Templon and mysteries abound at Jorge Alyskewic
Meanwhile, Bertrand's return to drawing is on display at Samia Saouma