Photos: Yayoi Kusama celebrates the opening of her retrospective at the Whitney Museum
As Yayoi Kusama celebrates the opening of her retrospective at the Whitney Museum—as well as a collaboration with Louis Vuitton—her lifelong dream of superstardom is finally a reality. Arthur Lubow discovers why the whole world is mad for Japan’s most iconoclastic artist.
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Yayoi Kusama
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A young Yayoi Kusama (second from right) in Japan with her family.
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The artist staging one of her happenings, 1968.
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Kusama’s 1951 painting Heart.
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Infinity-Nets (TBBBTY), 2008.
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“Hi, Konnichiwa (Hello!)” installation from Kusama’s 2004 solo exhibition at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
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Her Narcissus Garden installation at the 1966 Venice Biennale.
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Kusama’s 1967 happening Horse Play.
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The artist with one of her “Accumulation” works, 1966.
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Bachelor, a happening staged in 1969.
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Kusama in her New York studio in 1960.
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The Anatomic Explosion happening held at the New York Stock Exchange, 1968.
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The artist posing in her monkey-fur coat, 1964.
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The 2011 installation Infinity Mirrored Room— Filled With the Brilliance of Life.
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With Donald Judd, 1978.
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Louis Vuitton leather bags featuring Kusama’s designs, photographed by Nobuyoshi Araki for W.
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Kusama wearing sunglasses from her collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
