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Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave ... when Yayoi Kusama's yellow and black-spotted Pumpkin was added to the ...

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins,” one of Yayoi Kusama’s iconic “infinity room” installations, will be displayed at the Dallas Museum of Art for the first time since 2018 ...

When she was a child, Kusama began to have vivid hallucinations of flashing lights, waves of dots engulfing her and strange pumpkin ... subjects of the art we know of her today. Her simple notebook ...

Kusama and Saint Phalle’s candid reflections on the lasting impact of their challenging childhoods suggest that engaging with their archetypal inner child through their art has provided ... her last ...

Modern Alice, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto ... to the anticipated certainty of a project and ideology, but is formed before his eyes and under the impulse of a hand that sinks into the ...

It’s a worthy project: by almost every metric Kusama is a titan ... Many self-professed art lovers would have encountered her infinity rooms and pumpkin sculptures – on social media at the very least ...

Located in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Naoshima is part of a cluster islands that includes Teshima and Inujima, where art and nature ... very weird and cool. Kusama’s Pumpkins and Benesse House ...

Martin Benn’s dish using pumpkin, smoked salmon roe and marigolds was inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s playful art forms.Eugene ... awaited restaurant and bar project in what has just become one ...

In the same year she established the Kusama Fashion Institute. For Meg Slater, curator of international exhibition projects at the ... of commercialism in the art world. “It kind of marked ...

fusing tea culture with modern art by bringing the iconic polka dot pumpkin to Shanghai. Themed around "Adding a touch of BOBO to the world," the China project of "Love and life" merges Kusama's ...

In a time when the world craves unity and understanding, this Project serves as a poignant ... which debuted in Paris, embodies Kusama's deeply personal connection to the pumpkin, a recurring motif in ...