Louise Bourgeois’s exhibit opened at Guggenheim last night. Be forewarned, the article in its entirety is slightly ambiguous.
Spirals abound in Louise Bourgeois’s art. She says they make her think of control and freedom, and of strangling someone. So it’s perfect that her retrospective, seen in London and Paris, is now in the looping rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum. It looks great there, clean but organic — fecund, tumid, enwrapping — and unclassically classical.
