Japanese superstar Yayoi Kusama has secured a position as one of the most popular artists on Earth: Her museum exhibitions are sure-fire blockbusters, her art moves quickly at auctions, and she also ...

In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art ...

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Yayoi Kusama turns 90 this month. And the Japanese artist has much to celebrate. She is the most famous living female artist in the world. Time magazine named her on its “100 Most Influential People” ...

It's no secret that Yayoi Kusama’s mesmerizing mirrored Infinity Rooms, paintings, and pumpkins are popping up everywhere these days. In addition to The Broad in Los Angeles, which is presenting ...

Three bold floral sculptures by Kusama transform the gallery space at 519 West 19th Street into a colorful, polka-dot-filled garden. Presented in the round, these sculptures offer a different view ...

Yayoi Kusama turned 16 just a few months before two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, obliterating first Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. Those horrific events in August 1945 were — and remain — the ...

Practically every article in recent years about the 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama focuses on one thing: experiencing her work in the age of Instagram. The matter tends to be raised not as a ...

Pianist and composer Yayoi Ikawa, originally from Tokyo, Japan, has been living and working in New York City for a decade. Her trio and quartet was featured on a historic nation- wide Japanese radio ...

YOSHINOGARI, Saga Prefecture--The lids of a stone coffin that may contain the remains of a powerful person from the latter part of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.) were lifted here on June 5.