A new film tells the story of Yayoi Kusama’s reckoning with her own demons and those of the artworld.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden
Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway’s history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area.
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1,500 Yayoi Kusama Mirror Balls Beckon Beachgoers to the Rockaways
“Narcissus Garden” will be on view in a former train garage at Fort Tilden from July 1 until Labor Day.
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Tourist Attraction in Indonesia Rips Off Chris Burden, Yayoi Kusama, and Museum of Ice Cream
The new attraction includes a copy of Burden’s “Urban Light” called “Love Light,” a version of Kusama’s “Obliteration Room” dubbed “Love Lock,” and a whole section called “Museum of Ice Cream.”
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Broad Museum Acquires Another Kusama Infinity Room, Opening This Weekend
Viewers are invited to stick their heads into the porthole-like windows of Los Angeles’s newest Kusama chamber to gaze at infinity.
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A Yayoi Kusama Documentary Tracks a Life in Polka Dots
Kusama – Infinity spotlights both the artist’s radically successful career and how art can be a method of healing.
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How Long Do You Have to Wait to Get Into a Kusama Infinity Room? We Found Out
Ever wonder how long people at other museums are waiting to get into an Infinity Room? We found out! (Well, kind of.)
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We Spotted the Yayoi Kusama Children’s Book You Always Wanted
Children’s art books offer opportunities for kids — and the adults in their lives — to engage with art in joyful and surprising ways.
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A Cardboard Box Alternative to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms
Artist Jon Burgerman is offering people queueing outside David Zwirner a more modest and less immersive experience: the “Infinity Box.”
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When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
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7 Thoughts About Ivanka Trump’s Photo in Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”
And contemporary art continues to be part of the Jivanka brand.
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Museumgoer Breaks a Kusama Pumpkin, Allegedly in Pursuit of a Selfie [UPDATED]
According to museum visitors, someone attempting to take a selfie in Yayoi Kusama’s newest mirror room fell into the gleaming patch of pumpkin sculptures and broke one of them.