Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist renowned for her immersive mirror rooms and polka dots, dies at 97

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/yayoi-kusama-japanese-artist-renowned-immersive-mirror-rooms-dies-97-rcna594642

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redwattlebird@thelemmy.club · 37 pts · 3d (4 replies)

sigh it's not a good week for the arts, is it?

return2ozma@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d

le sigh

yakko@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 3d

Greatness is leaving the world in droves this week.

tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d

I would assume that she wasn't making new mirror rooms at 97.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d

It was just announced this week but she died 2 weeks ago on the 14th

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 3d

rem26_art@fedia.io · 9 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Oh man thats sad. I've been in one of her mirror rooms and they're really trippy.

IndigoLarry@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

So trippy. I had dropped a gummy and stumbled into her "Gleaming Lights of the Souls" while visiting the Louisiana Art Museum in Denmark. I was the only person in there. It felt like a dream, almost a nightmare. Kind of haunting, but in a good way.

daannii@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d

Always loved her infinity installations

sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d

Now I wonder what it would be like to go inside of a mirrored sphere wearing a glow in the dark jumpsuit...