Many know Yayoi Kusama as “the princess of polka dots”, but the famous Japanese contemporary artist has more to offer than her iconic dotted pumpkin. The 93-year-old cultural icon is still ...

Illustrator Elisa Macellari traces the life of Yayoi Kusama, in a polka-studded graphic novel that delves into the story behind her career as an artist The novel begins with a ten-year-old Kusama, in ...

Away from these experiential spaces, the life—and survival ... newer works (the artist still paints most days) quietly feature at “Yayoi Kusama,” carrying an authenticity and immediacy ...

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NAOSHIMA, Kagawa Prefecture—Officials here are racking their brains over how to reinstall Yayoi Kusama’s ... Those in Naoshima hoping to view Kusama’s work can still see her “Red ...

In the end, what we find in the work of Yayoi Kusama is a set of aesthetics that pull us into what we call the startled joy of sacred experiences — a paying attention to life, large and small ...

NAOSHIMA, Kagawa Prefecture--An artwork by famed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama that was badly damaged by a typhoon last year was restored and displayed once again here, one of Japan’s art islands ...

Thirty years ago, Japanese salaryman Daisuke Miyatsu saw a Yayoi Kusama artwork he just had to have – leading to a new life as an art collector, an art professor and one of Kusama’s biggest fans.