Yayoi Kusama has built a museum dedicated to her work in the Shinjuku section of Tokyo, and it is scheduled to open on October 1, according to a Japanese press release issued yesterday. Somehow, the ...

Earlier this year, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. managed to break its attendance records with one exhibit that drew nearly 500,000 visitors during its 11-week run. That’s because the ...

Polka dots. Mirrors. Pumpkins. Balloons. And long lines to see all of the above. Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessively patterned and repetitive imagery has made her one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, ...

Kusama’s eponymous museum designed by Kume Sekkei will rise five stories, and the sleek, white building appears to have floor-to-ceiling glass windows based on a rendering. The building will have a ...

In 2021, a typhoon damaged the famous yellow polka-dotted pumpkin on the end of a pier in Naoshima, but you can still see plenty of new and old works by the pumpkin’s world-renowned creator, Yayoi ...

As one of the most reputable Japanese artists of our time — with her exhibitions often attracting long queues — Yayoi Kusama will finally be opening her own museum at Tokyo‘s Shinjuku ward October of ...

Even if you haven’t heard of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, chances are you’ve seen her work — perhaps in a museum, but most likely on social media, where her whimsical, technicolor creations are ...

Everything Yayoi Kusama does is infinite. In 2006, the then-creative director of Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, met Kusama at her studio in Tokyo. The Japanese artist handed the designer a Vuitton ...

Louis Vuitton is no stranger to spectacular pop-ups, and it’s now added a new Tokyo retrospective to the list. The vibrant new pop-up is set in Kusama’s hometown of Harajuku, Tokyo, with ...

Don’t be surprised if you spot a line snaking around the block in Chelsea next month, because Yayoi Kusama is staging another show at David Zwirner, and it’s bound to be a blockbuster. The Japanese ...

She's been dubbed the "world's favorite artist." But while images of her kaleidoscopic Infinity rooms are hot on Instagram, she's no derivative newcomer to the art scene. This Japanese Pop-art icon ...

Louis Vuitton is no stranger to spectacular pop-ups, and it’s now added a new Tokyo retrospective to the list. A view from the exterior of the vibrant pop-up in Harajuku. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton The ...