LOUISE BOURGEOIS TSUNAMI MEMORIAL UNVEILED IN THAILAND

A Louise Bourgeois memorial to the thousands of victims of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was unveiled yesterday in a national park on the southwestern coast of Thailand, the New York Times reports (via the Associated Press). The work, Hold Me Close, was donated to Thailand by the French-born Bourgeois. Her memorial installation consists of a wooden walkway and two sculptures, one depicting a child’s hand in the water; the other, inside a wooden dome, showing two joined adult hands. The Thai Culture Ministry’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture said the memorial was in Hat Nopparat National Park on the coast of the Andaman Sea in Krabi Province.