Culture

Louise Bourgeois created her most powerful work - a thirty-foot bronze spider - in her late eighties. Growth as the thing that sometimes does not arrive until late, the masterpiece that required an entire life of preparation to become possible.

Between 1908 and 1914, Picasso and Braque worked in such close creative dialogue that art historians struggled to distinguish their canvases. Connection as the dissolution of individual style into shared vision - two minds so entangled the work became genuinely joint.