The historical association of textiles with gender, sexuality and identity norms make them ripe for subversion and reimagining

The ten-foot-tall metal arachnid is being sold by a Brazilian foundation and could reset several auction records

According to reports, visitors to The Woven Child exhibtion at London’s Hayward Gallery have had their posts mysteriously deleted

From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week

All you ever wanted to know about Bourgeois, from the artist in her own words to an illustrated book for children—selected by the Hayward Gallery’s Ralph Rugoff and Katie Guggenheim

Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month

Show at the Kunstmuseum Basel brings together text works by the late artist in a year that will see three major Bourgeois exhibitions

Plus, Desert X opens second Saudi Arabia edition and Gerhard Richter's 90th birthday exhibition in Dresden

Work by women, much of it featuring women's bodies, has been attracting the attention of buyers at the London fair

The first major exhibition to focus on the textile pieces that the late Paris-born artist made in the final phase of her career will open in February 2022

From Louise Bourgeois at The Jewish Museum to Sam Durant’s High Line Plinth commission

We discuss Matthew Barney, Igshaan Adams, Eileen Agar and Louise Bourgeois

The new space will open with an exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois in June

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

Featuring works by Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett and others, the online series explores artists' experiences of motherhood and their connection to their own moms

In his new book the photographer Jean-François Jaussaud details how he gained the trust of the late French artist

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

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

The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour

First major survey in Shanghai of late artist’s work includes giant spider on loan from Tate

Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art