PATTERNS AND POLKA DOTS
Image: Yayoi Kusama, The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens 2017. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro
Queen of Colour, Princess of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama is probably the most famous artist alive today. Her nine decades have taken her from an interwar, conservative childhood in middle-class Tokyo to the New York art scene— in the company of Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Joseph Cornell, and Claes Oldenburg —and back to contemporary Tokyo, where she famously had a breakdown and has voluntarily chosen to live in a psychiatric unit since 1977. But you already know all of this...
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