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Farewell today to the high priestess of polka dots, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026). Her work was unforgettable and for her, a means to survival. It’s playful, psychedelic, compulsive, beautiful and slightly unsettling all at once. Into infinity and beyond Yayoi! 🔴🟡⚫️

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I'll never go into Kusama's Fireflies Infinity Mirror Room at the Phoenix Art Museum high again! Before I entered Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love at SF MOMA, I asked the guard to rescue me if I wasn't out in 5 minutes. 🤣 RIP Yayoi Kusama

The art world borrowed from her throughout the sixties without ever letting her in, and fifty years later she became the best-selling living female artist in the world. What often gets read as decorative in her work came from hallucinations she spent her life turning into labour.