At 83 years old, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama boasts a pioneering oeuvre in many forms of media from the past five decades. Possessing a hallucinatory obsession with dots due to hardships she suffered as a child, Kusama uses art as an outlet.
Posted 04.18.2012
"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland." So begins Yayoi Kusama's visionary take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the iconic tale of a...
Posted 04.19.2012
Today marks the 83rd birthday of Japanese conceptual artist Yayoi Kusama. Kusama's lifetime dedication to her signature dots has covered a vast array ...
Posted 03.12.2012
We know that you've probably read an artist's biography or two, but have you ever read artists' own account of their lives? Let us provide you with th...
Posted 02.11.2012
In the second installment of our weekly roundup of brutal, if over the top, reviews, a desperate "Bachelor" contestant made critics cringe when she tr...
Posted 02.10.2012
Yayoi Kusama turned her hallucinations into an obsession, and her obsession into unique creations of repeated forms. Throughout her life she has creat...
Posted 03.26.2012
Yayoi Kusama forever changed the polka dot. What was before a cute if not ordinary pattern was, to her, a hallucination, an absolute fixation on a rep...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.09.2012
Does anyone really care to see an entire exhibition consisting of small colored spots on a series of white canvases? Would you change your mind if the...
The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.05.2012
Since the fifties, 82-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has been unusually relevant, her sales among the highest for living female artists (bar no...
David Galenson | Posted 02.28.2012
In a contemporary art world filled with the unusual and often the bizarre, one of the very most improbable stories must be that of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Her remarkable career is currently the subject of a major retrospective at Paris' Centre Pompidou.
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.11.2012
As fall cedes to winter, the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris will be enlivened by Yayoi Kusama's vibrantly colored Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, a series of unique large-scale sculptures.
Posted 10.24.2011
Via MutualArt Lot results and fiscal reports from the leading auction houses in the first half of 2011 showed a promising continuation of art marke...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.05.2011
Bruce Helander | Posted 07.06.2011
It's not much of a challenge to figure out which of the hundreds of lots are considered the most valuable--just look at the estimates, starting at $40...
Jane Chafin | Posted 06.05.2011
In the aftermath of the recent disasters in Japan, this video about Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, is poignant.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
Niki de Saint Phalle's Black Rosy is an iconic work representing the shadow of Eros that would be repressed by feminist criticism in the years to com...
artinfo.com | Posted 05.25.2011
On Thursday evening at Phillips de Pury & Company, an unusual, almost unprecedented occurrence took place: A woman took the top lot at a major auction...
MutualArt | Posted 05.23.2012