Artist-Led Tours of Louise Bourgeois Exhibition

Eye to Eye: Artist-Led Tours of Louise Bourgeois Exhibition
August 27, September 8 & 17
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)

Louise Bourgeois has remained steadfastly at the vanguard of the visual arts for more than seventy years, continuing to create new bodies of work with restless innovation. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, her richly symbolic paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations expose facets of her own personal history and confront the more universal ethos of human emotion. Join this multigenerational group of leading contemporary artists on private guided tours that explore Bourgeois’s distinctive iconography.

All walkthroughs begin at 6:30 p.m.; receptions with the artists follow.
Single tour $25, $20 members; Series of 3 $60, $50 members. Limit 25 per tour. For more information, call the Box Office at 212 423 3587.

Karen Finley: Wed., Aug. 27
Karen Finley (b. 1956, Chicago) is best known for her politically subversive and deeply personal performance art. Using her voice and body to provoke a visceral response, she forces her audiences into an uneasy confrontation with social issues such as violence against women, the AIDS crisis, and censorship.

Rachel Harrison: Mon., Sept. 8
The work of Rachel Harrison (b. 1966, New York) merges sculptural, painterly, and photographic elements. Incorporating eccentric handmade forms with found objects, she enacts a playful dialogue between abstraction and figuration, referencing art historical movements such as Pop and Minimalism.

Marina Abramović: Wed., Sept. 17
Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramović (b. 1946, Belgrade) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. With the body serving as her subject and medium, she has explored the boundaries of emotional, spiritual, and physical states in the hope of ultimately transcending them.

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