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 ...

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 ...

Remember “Seven Minutes in Heaven”? Well, subtract six, forgo the awkward fumbling, and you’ve got one of Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms. Their mirrored walls and ceiling surround you, while hundreds ...

Alongside Kusama are Atsuko Tanaka and Tsuruko Yamazaki—both part of the more male-dominated Gutai movement—and the ...

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama in Alma BB in red monogram with infinite dots. (PHOTO: Louis Vuitton) Good news for all Yayoi Kusama fans; luxury brand Louis Vuitton is dotting the fashion world by ...

Now aged 95, Yayoi Kusama for many decades has been considered one of the most influential contemporary artists. She works across a wide range of art forms, including sculpture and installations, ...

“Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the first institutional exhibition to explore the evolution of the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive ...

As a child in pre-war Japan, Yayoi Kusama would often complain of vivid, occasionally crippling hallucinations involving complex patterns and bright polka dots of varying size. The types of themes and ...

Visit Victoria Miro Gallery in London from now until the end of July and you may find yourself in an endless field of glowing yellow, polka-dotted pumpkins. This arresting experience is part of a ...

To understand the grand new exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work at The Broad museum, one must consider the phallus. In the early 1960s, the odd and innovative Japanese artist began crafting a series of ...

Step into one of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms, and you'll see different views of yourself everywhere you turn. Face one way in these spaces full of reflective surfaces and colored shapes, and ...

In November 1968, a few months shy of her 40th birthday, the artist Yayoi Kusama sent an open letter to the then President-elect of the United States, Richard Nixon. She offered to have sex with him – ...