Yayoi Kusama has devoted ... but their subject helped Kusama to ‘heal my feelings of disgust towards sex. Reproducing the objects was my way of conquering the fear …I was terrified of the phallus … I ...

Standing on a carpet of dried pasta, six crayon-coloured mannequins stand mid-conversation at a dinner party - each covered in artist Yayoi Kusama’s infinity nets ... with gigantic polka-dotted balls ...

In these respects, the defining cultural figure of the decade, the one who best understands the lay of the land, is the ninety-four-year-old Yayoi ... that make self-promotion possible. Kusama ...