Louise Bourgeois, Saudi soft power and Gerhard Richter at 90

Published: Feb. 11, 2022, 12:01 a.m.

b'As a show looking at Louise Bourgeois\\u2019s late-career obsession with textiles opens at the Hayward Gallery in London\\u2014ahead of other exhibitions of her work in Basel and New York\\u2014we look at the French-American artist\\u2019s fabric-related creations with Jerry Gorovoy, who worked with Bourgeois for 30 years and is now President of the foundation that manages her legacy. A host of contemporary art shows have just opened in Saudi Arabia. But does this, as some commentators have said, mark a new era in the country\\u2019s approach to culture, or is it \\u201cartwashing\\u201d the country\\u2019s record on human rights abuses? We ask The Art Newspaper\\u2019s chief contributing editor, Gareth Harris, who has travelled to the Middle Eastern country to find out. And in this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, Dietmar Elger, the curator of the Gerhard Richter Archive in Dresden, Germany, discusses Fels, a three-metre-tall abstract painting from 1989, which is at the heart of a new show curated by Richter at the Albertinum in the eastern German city.


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