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Yayoi Kusama's last show opens without her: Amsterdam unveils new Infinity Mirrored Room in tribute to the artist who died at 97

A major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama's work opens at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. This exhibition serves as a posthumous tribute to the artist who died at ninety-seven. Kusama's seven-decade career is celebrated through diverse artistic mediums and installations. The show features her signature polka dots and immersive mirrored rooms. This exhibition…

The Economic Times · Sep 9

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum opens a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition after her death last month

Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work, two weeks after the celebrated Japanese artist's death at 97

The Independent UK · Sep 9

Before the infinity nets, there was ‘The Pacific Ocean’ – what origin stories focusing on Yayoi Kusama’s mental illness miss about her art

Stories of Yayoi Kusama’s life often begin after she moved to New York City from Japan in 1958 and found near-overnight success with her abstract infinity net paintings. These evolved into the infinity rooms and polka-dotted pumpkins that became social media phenomena decades later and the focus of her legacy…

The Conversation · Sep 1

Yayoi Kusama obituary

Artist known for her dazzling polka-dotted paintings and infinity mirror room installations

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27

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Reason · Aug 27

‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists

The pioneering Japanese artist talked openly about how her mental health and neurodivergence informed her creativity, paving the way for the likes of Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27

Quote of the day: Yayoi Kusama’s “Just as Bodhidharma spent ten years facing a stone wall...” a life lesson on extraordinary dedication

Quote of the Day: Yayoi Kusama’s reflection on spending a month facing a single pumpkin captures the extraordinary concentration behind her early artistic practice. By comparing her devotion to painting with Bodhidharma’s legendary meditation before a stone wall, Kusama describes a creative process so absorbing that even sleep felt like…

The Economic Times · Aug 27

Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses

With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sold 1,500 mirrored balls for $2 each at Venice in 1966, decades later one of her paintings fetched $10.5 million

In 1966, visitors arriving at the Venice Biennale were confronted by an unusual sight. Spread across the lawn outside the Italian Pavilion were 1,500 shimmering silver spheres, each catching fragments of the surrounding architecture, the sky and anyone who stopped to look.

The Times of India · Aug 27

Quote of the Day by Yayoi Kusama: "I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art"

Yayoi Kusama dies at 97 – her life in her own words.

Creative Bloq · Aug 27