oh, to (art)work until one's death!her latest pieces finished just last week, Bourgeois' work was almost unknown to the wider art world until she was 70, when New York's Museum of Modern Art presented a solo show of her career in 1982.
In an e-mail exchange in early 2008, The Associated Press asked Bourgeois what advice she would give young artists just starting out. "Tell your own story, and you will be interesting," she responded. "Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work."
many obit stories with images of her famous sculptures. good ones at LATimes and NPR.org.
Louise Bourgeois in 2003.
