When the esteemed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was a struggling ... like Untitled (1965), offer early examples of other mainstays in Kusama’s work. The painting depicts a series of multicolored ...

From her early sketchbooks to pieces created by Kusama over the pandemic, signature works such as her 1992 work Shooting Stars and an array ... the 1970s', explains Mika Yoshitake, co-curator of ...

In 1973, after a decade or so making shockwaves across the art world, Yayoi Kusama checked herself into a mental health facility. The artist, now 95 years old and still residing in the same Tokyo ...

Three years after the closure of Kusama’s hugely successful exhibition at the museum, one of her works will join its ...

I’ve had a question about Yayoi Kusama’s work for a long time and the new survey ... I’m starting to think that this was an early sign of a strategy to subtly sanitize Kusama for Western ...

I entered the studio of Yayoi Kusama like Alice wandering into ... series now under way constitute “some of her best work.” “The early sixties was her most glorious period,” he said.

The catalogue for Yayoi Kusama ... brings together Kusama’s own writing, including essays, manifestos, interviews, artist statements and poetry. The texts begin in the early 1950s and include ...

Yayoi Kusama. Who is Yayoi Kusama ... been caught messing with the truth—tinkering with some early watercolors to make her body of work seem more cohesive, or memory-holing some odious passages ...

Tatehata, who is now the director of the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo, was a budding art curator in his early 20s when he first saw her work in the flesh at an exhibition in 1975. Speaking via ...

The current exhibition, “Every Day I Pray for Love,” is described by the Yayoi Kusama ... installation work “Dots Obsession” (1996/2022). Despite being in her early 90s, Kusama is still ...

There's a deeply evocative part of a work on display early in the NGV exhibition that ... and I definitely can't afford a limited edition Yayoi Kusama Louis Vuitton handbag, but the first half ...