Event

Louise Bourgeois

In Person: Filmmaker Aime Wallach

Admission includes discussion and post-screening reception

The brilliant, iconoclastic Louise Bourgeois, now 96 and surely the grande dame of the art world (a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum runs through September 28) is the mesmerizing subject of this riveting documentary portrait. Co-directed by former Newsday art critic Amei Wallach and Marion Cajori, the movie records Bourgeois at work and play, fashioning art in her studio and ruminating upon the deep emotional and psychological roots of her work. Bourgeoiss massive spiders, some as large as 30 feet, have been exhibited throughout the world. They symbolize the maternal impulse, but it is the artists passionate connection with various childhood traumas (her fathers live-in mistress being just one) that fuel much of her groundbreaking work. Critic/curators Robert Storr and Deborah Wye, and the artists longtime aide-de-camp Jerry Gorovoy, lend piquant commentary.

USA, 2008, 99 min., color