“Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment” (May 10, 2018 - Jan, 2020) at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland

[Tweaked]

Glenstone has announced their next exhibit featuring  Louise Bourgeois.  This exhibit will be held in their original gallery space and will be the last show before the new Pavilions galleries open.

Most DC-ites will be familiar with her giant "Spider" sculpture at the National Gallery of Arts Sculpture Garden on the Mall.  

"The trailblazing work of French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be the subject of a five-decade survey exhibition featuring more than 30 works, all from Glenstone’s collection, including a recently acquired masterpiece that was realized at a pivotal moment in her career: the 1974 installation The Destruction of the Father."

"Glenstone Announces Louise Bourgeois Exhibit" by Peggy McGlone on washingtonpost.com

[DonRocks]

On 3/23/2018 at 3:46 PM, Tweaked said:

Glenstone has announced their next exhibit featuring  Louise Bourgeois.  This exhibit will be held in their original gallery space and will be the last show before the new Pavilions galleries open.

Most DC-ites will be familiar with her giant "Spider" sculpture at the National Gallery of Arts Sculpture Garden on the Mall.  

"The trailblazing work of French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be the subject of a five-decade survey exhibition featuring more than 30 works, all from Glenstone’s collection, including a recently acquired masterpiece that was realized at a pivotal moment in her career: the 1974 installation The Destruction of the Father."

"Glenstone Announces Louise Bourgeois Exhibit" by Peggy McGlone on washingtonpost.com

I'm glad you mentioned the spider. "Maman" (a different work) is one of the world's-largest depictions of a spider as well. This may be the only way Washingtonians know Bourgeois, who I believe will be widely-regarded as one of the finest artists of the late twentieth century, and every bit as much of a household name as Freud, Johns, Warhol, Stella, etc. If you're wealthy, and want to invest in art, Bourgeois should be someone to investigate.

May 31, 2010 - "Louise Bourgeois Obituary" by Michael McNay on theguardian.com

Of note: The Glenstone Museum doesn't even have its own Wikipedia entry yet (although there is one for its billionaire benefactor, Mitchell Rales), but Glenstone will have its own soon enough - go now, so you can "remember it when" (trust me on this).