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Some background information: in the 1980s, when I taught modern art history at Tufts, I was the academic advisor for the students in the MFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. One of my students, Kim Berman, was from Johannesburg and she was very active in the anti-apartheid […]
Louise Bourgeois affects us viscerally. The extraordinary physicality of her work outstrips any other art addressing the female body and its excruciating alterations from pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, sexuality, abuse, aging. I once met her in Houston at a conference of women artists who were marching for the ERA in 1975. She was […]