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c/traditional_art · by Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 7d

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97 [Article]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/style/japanese-artist-yayoi-kusama-dies-intl-hnk

A few photos from the 2018 exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, including an interactive portion where visitors put dots on objects.

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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 7d (1 reply)

fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7d

Oh, well played!
Still sad, but well played.

xangadix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d (1 reply)

I think her work was a lot more then her famed polkadots, I feel like the title doesn't do her justice.

I saw an overview her work in Bilbao and what struck me the most were a couple of school classes, kids aged maybe 7 or 8 who really loved her work and were all sitting down in the gallery space absorbing it 🤗😊

Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 4 pts · 7d

It was really magical stuff. I don't normally bother with things that have timed entrances and long lines but it was so worth it to get to go inside a few Infinity Mirror Rooms. The AGO acquired one of them after the exhibition, so there is a lot more opportunities for people in the area to experience it.

Yay for kids in galleries! I'll take a few rambunctious kids over some know-it-all offering unsolicited interpretation to strangers any day.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 7d (2 replies)

What's the censored thing supposed to be? A big dotted dildo?

Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 10 pts · 7d

Yes.

(It's people, I blurred them out but not the others because it's a front on face shot and because it was distracting from the rest of the work).

zwerg@feddit.org · 2 pts · 7d

"...repeated phallic shaped forms..." That's probably a yes...

ghostpony@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 7d

Meh, another old racist died. Anyway.

Kusama’s apology, which came the day before her show, “Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love,” opened at the museum, referred to passages from her 2002 autobiography, “Infinity Net,” in which she described Black people as “primitive, hyper-sexualized beings.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231107130550/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/arts/design/kusama-apologizes-racist-san-francisco.html

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 7d

I heard the hype. I read about her. I got tickets to see her exhibit at the AGO. I sat down in an infinity room and it was pretty impactful. I want to build one in my house.

mbp@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 7d (1 reply)

Broooo no way

What an awful week

Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 7d

Why are the deaths always clustered? Horrible.

damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d

Dammit.

themoken@startrek.website · 1 pts · 7d

This sucks, caught her work in LA and DC and her walk in exhibits are phenomenal.