For decades nintey-year-old artist Yayoi Kusama has embraced the culturally taboo practices of obsession and accumulation, using them as a means of transformation and healing. Her remarkable “art medicine” has been her balm for mental illness.
Read MoreVisit Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms
Since we may not be able to get to the Hirshhorn Museum to see Yayoi Kusama’s six Infinity Room installations in person, we were happy that NPR made this short video…to give us a glimpse of infinity
Read MoreGift: Yayoi Kusama’s The Little Mermaid for Adults and Children
The inspired pairing of Yayoi Kusama’s drawings with Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale has resulted in a unique experience. The text and brilliantly patterned images infiltrate the senses in unexpected ways.
Read MoreFinding Your Personal Medicine (Yayoi Kusama)
When we stumbled on an image of the polka-dot cloth-wrapped trees in Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinary Ascension of the Polka Dots on the Trees, we felt instant joy and astonishment and were reminded once again of Kusama’s use of art as her own medicine. It got us thinking about vocations, passions, practices, arts that actually help us to live in the world.
Read MoreYayoi Kusama’s Fab Lessons in Dots
We’ve posted about Japanese artist Yoyoi Kusama a number of times in the past, so taken were we with her view of art as medicine; losing herself in making art — “self-obliteration”— is her way of relieving illness. We have been especially transfixed by her repetitive use of dots in her artwork. In “The Obliteration Room”, currently on view…
Read MoreThe Art of Yayoi Kusama: Obsession Becomes Medicine
Although we’ve long been fans of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, now in her nineties, we had no idea of the power of her influence, dedication and work until we saw this remarkable 7-minute video interview (which flies by). She shows how two maligned concepts — obsession and accumulation — have been the means of transformation and healing for her.
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In The Art of the Flame-Out, Carl Swanson writes about visionary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s return to the New York Art scene after 40 years in a mental-hospital exile. But whatever you make of her retreat into a psych ward, her mantra was always “self-obliteration”—to lose herself in the work, or to the work, to save herself.…
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