She has one wooden leg and holds one crutch. The crutch supports one of the fruit-laden lower branches, indicating the capacity to flower and bear fruit in spite of injury. One cell is a replica of her parents' bedroom, titled Passion and Tragedy. Another cell, Dangerous Passages, is a wire cage almost large enough to be a small studio apartment. Bourgeois' family ran a tapestry repair business, and some of her earliest artworks were sketches of the tapestries' missing parts.
Brazil wants more.
In fact, word is that Brazil wants its own Guggenheim outpost. Krens is being prudent and non-committal for the time being. Chile and Argentina have also made known an interest in hosting South America's first Guggenheim. Spain's two art fairs Organizers of Spain's celebrated annual art fair, ARCO, recently announced details of its next installment, scheduled to run Feb. 10-15, 2000. More than 450 galleries applied.