Louise Bourgeois Maman and Spiders

Spiders by Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, b. Paris, France) can be seen in Rockefeller Center during the summer of 2001. The work features a 30-foot-tall spider, Maman—meaning “mama” in Bourgeois’ native French—carrying a basket of eggs and flanked by two smaller spiders. Brian D. Leitch from The New York Times Magazine stated, “Louise Bourgeois, like the giant mother-spider sculpture she created several years ago, has been spinning a web of weirdly magnificent work for more than six decades—and finally, at 90, she’s getting her full due.”