LOUISE BOURGEOIS’S CULTURAL DIPLOMACY

Sculptures and prints by Louise Bourgeois went on show in Havana this weekend in the first major exhibition in Cuba by a contemporary U.S. artist, Reuters reports. A US-based organizer said he was surprised last year to obtain a US Treasury Department license to hold the show in Communist-run Cuba in the current hostile political climate between the two countries. “We thought it was really important to make this work available and show that cultural projects can continue and transcend whatever political conditions exist,” said Philip Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois’s archivist and co-curator of the exhibition of twenty sculptures and eleven prints from Bourgeois’s private collection.