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# Kids Transform Museum Into Dotted Wonderland
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/yayoi-kusama-queensland-art-gallery/
- Published: 2012-01-05T12:36:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:20.000Z
- Description: The Queen of Dotted Art, Yayoi Kusama gave young visitors to an Australian museum a chance to create art by placing dots in a pristine white room.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Yayoi Kusama, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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File this brilliant idea under, “I Wish I Thought of This First.”

If Damien Hirst is revving up to [consume the art world with his dot paintings](http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/08/08/damien-hirst-to-connect-his-dot-paintings-around-the-world?ref=hyperallergic.com) later this month, the Queen of Dotted Art, [Yayoi Kusama](http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/index.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), is proving once again that her dots have a certain youthful joy that the British mega-art star could only aspire to.

Kusama has given young visitors to an Australian museum in the state of Queensland the chance to create art by placing multicolored dots in a pristine white room.

Entitled the “[Obliteration Room](http://blog.qag.qld.gov.au/before-the-first-dot-yayoi-kusama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98the-obliteration-room%E2%80%99-2011/?ref=hyperallergic.com),” the installation is colorful and visually mesmerizing. I’m not quite sure how the kids got up to the ceiling to place those suckers but let’s assume they found a way (or a parent) to reach that high. Visit [Colossal](http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which has more lovely photos from the installation.

This isn’t the first time Kusama’s dots have inspired children. One of our most popular posts in 2011 was a [video](http://hyperallergic.com/23285/small-child-kusama/) shows a young museum goer having a blast in Kusama’s dotted room at the Mattress Factory museum in Pittsburgh.

[Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever](http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/yayoi%5Fkusama%5Flook%5Fnow,%5Fsee%5Fforever?ref=hyperallergic.com) *is on display at Queensland, Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art until March 11, 2012.*