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Elaine Showalter on Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern

Tate Modern presents the first major survey of the work of Louise Bourgeois since 1995. Elaine Showalter explores her life and work from early childhood.

Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria, 1993

Louise Bourgeois
Arch of Hysteria 1993
Courtesy Cheim and Reid, Galerie Karsten Greve and Galerie Hauser and Wirth © the artist. Photo: Allen Finkelman
Polished Bronze
83.8x101.6x58.4cm

Massimiliano Gioni on Animals

Installation view of Paola Pivi's Interesting at the Nicola Trussadi Foundation, Milan, 2006

When Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping was forced to expel the beasties that inhabited his Theater of the World he complained that “animal rights were violently interfering with the rights of an artwork to be freely exhibited.” Massimiliano Gioni investigates.

Madeleine Grynsztejn on Doris Salcedo

Doris Salcedo, Detail of Atrabiliarios, 1992-2004

Madeleine Grynsztejn on Doris Salcedo’s commission for the Tate Modern, and the social, historical and political landscape of Columbia which informed it.