Tag: Yayoi Kusama

  • MC Escher

    A blockbuster exhibition takes us into the mind-bending world of the Dutch printmaker. But is it art or sideshow attraction?

  • Manchester International Festival 2023

    From a polka-dot tastic show from Yayoi Kusama to an unlikely combination of footballers and musicians, we look at what this year’s festival has to offer

  • Flesh Arranges Itself Differently

    Drawing from two remarkable collections of contemporary art and medical and scientific discovery, this exhibition at The Hunterian shows how representations of anatomy, technology, spirituality and mortality have shifted through the ages

  • Anna Ray: Fibre and Form

    This joyous explosion of colour, pattern and entangled loops of fabric leaps off the white walls of the gallery, banishing all thoughts of doom and gloom, and embodying the power and energy of art as a healing form

  • Pavilion Tokyo 2021

    As the city holds the 2020 Olympics, architects and artists including Kazuyo Sejima, Terunobu Fujimori and Yayoi Kusama have designed pavilions to show visitors Tokyo’s cultural side, both old and new

  • Kusama: Cosmic Nature

    In a joyous coupling of art with nature, Yayoi Kusama’s cheering and restorative polka dots and pumpkins are just what is needed after this traumatic year

  • Shirley Wu: hong kong artists, women

    The San Francisco-based, data-driven creative Shirley Wu has designed a scrolling mountainscape that maps data from Wikipedia to draw attention to Hong Kong’s female artists for the M+’s digital education platform

  • Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’

    Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…

  • Frieze New York 2019

    This year’s fair demonstrated a more open-ended approach than usual, exhibiting and promoting diverse art-making practices. By devoting attention to new trends, as well as to forgotten and little-known artists, the organisers created a well-balanced and engaging display

  • Yayoi Kusama: The Moving Moment When I Went to the Universe

    In the 60s, Kusama was a pioneering artist, but it’s hard not to feel that this show, with its hyped-up pumpkins and mirror room, is more about her status as an Instagram sensation