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Louise Bourgeois at The Freud Museum, London

Until 27 May, The Freud Museum in London hosts a unique exhibition of the work of Louise Bourgeois  which features, along with her sculptures and paintings, papers documenting her 30 years in psychoanalysis. Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and died in New York in 2012. She is seen as the founder of confessional art with her famous ‘maman’ spider sculptures hinting at the fragility and strength of the