Excellent post! Read it and then went exploring your cage post which I had not really took the time to acknowledge before. I wanted to add a cage-related comment there but since your post is more than a month old I was not able to. Strange that with this wonderful blockchain technology at our disposition, the life (interactions) of a publication on Steemit would end after a month. Not sure if Resteeming it would bring it back alive, though...
Anyway, I will put it here.
On the tranformer web site's Collector’s View 2014/Images section, there is a picture (third one) showing what I believe is an art piece created by Louise Bourgeois that belongs to Tony Podesta.
Overview
VIEW 1: Tony Podesta - Kalorama
Sunday, April 6, 6-8pm
Tony Podesta invites Collector's View guests into his home to see newly installed photographs, paintings, and sculpture by artists including Ilit Azoulay, Louise Bourgeois, Beatriz Milhazes, Thomas Demand, Anna Gaskell, and Petrina Hicks.
My best guess would be that it's one of the artist's ''enclosed installation works she referred to as Cells'':
Cells
While in her eighties, Bourgeois produced two series of enclosed installation works she referred to as Cells. Many are small enclosures into which the viewer is prompted to peer inward at arrangements of symbolic objects; others are small rooms into which the viewer is invited to enter. In the cell pieces, Bourgeois uses earlier sculptural forms, found objects as well as personal items that carried strong personal emotional charge for the artist.
The cells enclose psychological and intellectual states, primarily feelings of fear and pain. Bourgeois stated that the Cells represent “different types of pain; physical, emotional and psychological, mental and intellectual… Each Cell deals with a fear. Fear is pain… Each Cell deals with the pleasure of the voyeur, the thrill of looking and being looked at.”
↦ Google Image search for Bourgeois Cells
The Cell in question (notice the mirrors):
RE: It's not a bloody photo of James Alefantis.