Giant Mother Spider

So last night I went to the MOCA with Ali G. for a little pre-opening thingy for the new Louise Bourgeois retrospective. Free wine, free snax, free cute Frenchmen in good suits (vive la France!), and oh, yeah, free art.

Ms. Bourgeois is my favorite artist ever, because when I was living in Prague, I once wandered through an exhibition of her work, checking out one of the little "cells" she'd built out of doors when suddenly, instantly, I missed my mother.

This was because, on a little table inside this particular cell, Ms. Bourgeois had arranged a marble arm, a mirror and a dozen Shalimar bottles - my mom's perfume. So beyond her amazing sculptures of giant mother spiders and weird awesome bodies, her exhibit smelled like my mommy.

Go see the show - it opens tomorrow!