Art May 6, 2021
Yayoi Kusama's dots and flowers breathe life into pandemic-hit New York
by Roselle Chen
The avant-garde artist's signature motif has been taken to the New York Botanical Garden.
Entertainment News Nov 14, 2019
Multimedia artist Yayoi Kusama is keeping up a torrid pace at 90 — backing up sold-out exhibits at museums around the world with fresh works, more shows and even a balloon designed for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. Kusama's balloon, "Love ...
Film Nov 7, 2019
Yayoi Kusama: The underdog story of a Japanese art maverick
by John L. Tran
A documentary tells the story of Yayoi Kusama's battles with racism, sexism and mental illness during her 70-plus years of creating art.
National Oct 26, 2018
Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami consider legal action against fake exhibitions in China
Exhibitions of works passed off as those by renowned Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami have been held in China recently, and the two artists are considering legal action to seek criminal charges, their lawyers have said. According to Yoshifumi Onodera, Kusama's lawyer, such ...
Art Jun 3, 2018
Yayoi Kusama in Jakarta: She'll be your mirror
by Mark Thompson
"Life is the Heart of a Rainbow," the Yayoi Kusama exhibition now on at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Jakarta, is the first retrospective of the artist Indonesia has ever hosted.
Business May 9, 2018
Buy what you like, sell what the market fancies: Top collectors reveal how to make a fortune in art
by Frederik Balfour
Andy Warhol once said: "Making money is art." But what about making money from art? A boom in the global market has delivered some eye-popping returns in the past few years, drawing new collectors keen to invest in an asset class that offers cultural as ...
Art Feb 20, 2018
The best pick and mix of modern art
by John L. Tran
The current exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art could be considered a retrospective of Toshio Hara's career as a collector. Surprisingly, given that the museum was founded in 1979, it's the first time that the director and president has personally curated a ...
Art Dec 12, 2017
It has been a year of new museums, galleries and inventive renovations
by Danielle Demetriou
From polka-dot emporiums and oceanfront observatories to a new-generation castle museum, a raft of eclectic new cultural spaces have been showcased over the past year across Japan. Here are a few highlights that have either opened or been renovated across the country in recent ...
Art Dec 12, 2017
Bohemia along the Sumida: In search of cultural capital
by John L. Tran
On paper, the Japanese government supports the arts, which are considered important vehicles for promoting Japanese culture globally, enhancing the country's image as a tourist destination and stimulating declining regional economies. But, where does the content for Japan's increasing number of art festivals actually ...
Art Nov 1, 2017
Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots and pumpkins exhibit a hot ticket in LA
by Michael J. Miller
Outside The Broad contemporary museum in downtown Los Angeles, a line of people stretched down an entire block, nearly a week after the sold-out "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibition opened on Oct. 21. Each day the museum sells a limited number of same-day standby tickets, ...
Art Sep 26, 2017
Beset by visions, artist Yayoi Kusama has no intention of slowing down
Avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that at age 88, she still fills her days painting and has no intention of slowing down. Long known for her obsessive, dot-covered art and ...
Entertainment News Aug 16, 2017
Famed artist Yayoi Kusama to open her own Tokyo museum
by Magdalena Osumi
Yayoi Kusama, avant-garde artist world-renowned for her obsessive polka dot and net paintings, is opening a museum in the center of Tokyo this fall, the new museum said on its website. The planned five-story museum will open Oct. 1 in Shinjuku Ward where it will ...