Kusama's "death at age 97 was announced on Thursday."
29 अगस्त 2026
"We Who Are Captivated by the Utmost Beauty of Everything We Know and Shed Tears as We Were Monstrously Touched by the Mystery of the Beauty" and other works...
... can be seen at "Yayoi Kusama: A Life in Pictures/Whether making dot-covered sculptures or wild performance pieces, the Japanese artist grabbed critical and popular acclaim" (NYT gift link).
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Sometimes I'm surprised that I've not heard of someone who was apparently well-known in some circles and had lived a long life producing things I might have run across at some point.
When they say 'popular acclaim' I wonder what they're referring to?
She has some fine examples of tentacle art. Complete with spots.
Tentacles art is a Japanese staple of monstrous affinity. A silly dolly with gay appeal and fringe acclamatiom of juvenile indulgence. RIP
I knew that there would be some absurdly obscure suggestions for the third celebrity death this week but...WOW
I don't know if it's her - without checking -but the “Narcissus Garden” installation is also at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville AK.
One may not like Yoko Ono. One may think she broke up the Beatles, but there is something of the artist about her. Maybe it's the same with Yayoi. ... Or maybe not. A lot gets lost in Japanese-English translation.
"A lot gets lost in Japanese-English translation."
I was thinking the same thing, both literally and figuratively; the title of the post, the title of one of her works, sounds like translated anime dialog to me: "I see that you are using the same defense that failed against me last year, yet now I am powerless to break it! Uh!"
As for her art, I liked some of the pictures in the article, but they didn't move me.
As a kid, I loved Battle of the Planets, the English-dubbed version of Gatchaman (I learned many years later). It and Speed Racer were both shown before school in Illinois when I was 13 or so. I didn't know they were anime - I didn't know what "anime" was - and no other anime or manga has ever appealed to me. Eventually YouTube came on-scene and I watched an original Gatchaman - unchanged animation, but ugh, the VOICES. I hated it. Somehow the voices (aided by the fact that I had at least doubled my age from when I first watched BotP to when I saw that Gatchaman episode) absolutely didn't translate for me.
It's not a free link when they demand something in return.
97, thats a good long life. I liked her art, its not John Singer Sargent but its interesting.
The octupus thing was good.
"Well known"? Maybe in professional esthetic or academic circles maybe.
Yayoi Kusama transformed profound psychological suffering into a visual language of wonder: infinite fields of dots, mirrored worlds and entire universes in which the self could dissolve. That does not make illness beautiful; it makes her courage and imaginationextraordinary. Few people could take what tormented them and create from it something so generous, mesmerizing and enduring. Her workchanged how millions of people experience art, space and their own place within the infinite. She deserves to be remembered with kindness, gratitude and awe. 🔴⚪️❤️
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