Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97 | CNN
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Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-selling artists has died, according to a statement on the artist’s official website.

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

  • xangadix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    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.onlineOPEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineOPEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      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).

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    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.