Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois curates a unique edit of work by three long-time friends and collaborators

21 years, 21 Guest Editors: from Dieter Rams to Jeff Koons, via Zaha Hadid and Hedi Slimane

A hole in one: celebrating 21 years of life-enhancing stuff

This month marks Wallpaper’s coming of age: our 21st anniversary. It’s also my tenth year as editor-in-chief, having switched from being creative director in April 2007. I must confess that my coming of age came a number of years earlier...

From Bourgeois to Baldessari, last chance to see Hauser & Wirth’s unmissable jewellery show

This week presents a last chance to see Hauser & Wirth’s blinder of an artist-jewellery show at its New York outpost. Curated by the former model and London-based jewellery designer Celia Forner, The Portable Art Project is a moveable design...

Material girls: needles and thread are tools of rebellion at Turner Contemporary

For the landmark ’Entangled: Threads and Making’ exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Karen Wright played the double-role of curator, and ’international artist matchmaker’. She brought together a diverse group of over 40 female artists, many of whom desccended on the seaside...

Towering art and A-list architecture is transforming a quiet corner of Provence into an elevating escape

At the time of Louise Bourgeois’ death in May 2010 a question mark hung over where one of the artist’s largest, most ambitious works would end up. I Do, I Undo, I Redo, an installation consisting of three 9m-tall steel...

Double measures: Marco Pallanti and Lorenza Sebasti marry winemaking to art

Gaiole in Chianti is a village perched on top of a hill in the Tuscan wine region of Chianti. Dotted around the area are villas, small castles and vineyards, punctuated by olive trees and the rough vegetation typical of this...

Both prison and refuge: Louise Bourgeois’ Cells at the Guggenheim, Bilbao

Louise Bourgois was 97 when she made the last of her Cell works in 2008, two years before she died. In Cell (The Last Climb), an open door leads into a rusty wire cage. It’s not a prison but a gateway...

Erdem guest edits Sotheby’s upcoming ’Contemporary Curated’ London auction

’I started collecting about seven years ago, firstly with photography, and that’s where my connection with Sotheby’s began,’ says Erdem Moralioglu, just days after his celebrated A/W 2016 London Fashion Week show. He’s surrounded by art works that will...

Home truths: Hauser & Wirth’s domestic bliss in Zurich

Hauser & Wirth’s outpost in Zurich has undergone a domestic reimagining, swapping its usual white cube format for a homely salon in which to explore artworks, books and prints during winter. Entitled ‘Salon d’Hiver’, the show draws inspiration from Hauser...

’Maison Fragiles’: Hauser & Wirth’s new show is an ode to vulnerability

Louise Bourgeois’ precariously balanced series of sculptures give the illusion of frailty, but on closer inspection a steel construction provides them with a hidden strength. Appearing like empty houses, the ‘Maisons Fragiles’ are a commentary on the solitude of domestic life, confronting...

Art strikes back at Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona’s newest gallery

Barcelona’s recently been casting an eye to its future. The overhaul of its legendary flea market, Els Encant Vells, was one such boost, and now it can add a brand new contemporary art gallery to its glossy résumé. Launched last...