Once associated with the plague, the polka dot jhas become a wardrobe power-player for everyone from Minnie Mouse to Kate Middleton.

To celebrate the new show, Kusama wrapped 60 plane trees in custom white and pink polka-dot fabric. The retrospective is “profoundly moving,” writes Sasha Grishin , an art historian at ...

Picture: Josie Hayden Sixty plane trees have been wrapped in a pink-and-white polka-dot design developed especially for Melbourne by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama and titled Ascension ...

Finding art a therapeutic practice, Kusama channels it to transform her visual and auditory hallucinations into artworks – sparking the origin of her celebrated net and polka dot motifs.

The "Yellow Pumpkin," painted with black polka dots, measures 2 meters high and 2.5 meters wide and is made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The artwork by Kusama had become a symbol of the island ...

A major new exhibition from Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has opened as part of Manchester International Festival 2023. ‘You, Me and the Balloons’, Kusama’s largest project to date, is the first to be ...

Can a pattern make you happier? Yayoi Kusama thinks so. Of polka dots, her signature motif, the spot-obsessed Japanese artist wrote: “They scatter proliferating love in the universe and raise my ...