Yayoi Kusama: Works from the 1950's Flower (D.S.P.S.), 1954 gouache on paper 12 x 12 in One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally all over the room, my body and the universe. I felt as if I had begun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinity of ...

Yayoi Kusama at the Tokyo Met. Museum of Contemporary Art by Monty DiPietro The superlatives come easily when one comments on Yayoi Kusama. The painter, sculptor, and performer is one of the most influential and widely-collected artists of the 1960s and quite possibly Japan s premiere artist of the modern era. Kusama is also enigmatic critics have variously ascribed her work to minimalism, ...

Yayoi Kusama by Monty DiPietro THE POLKA-DOT DIVA: A ONE-ACT PLAY location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. time: late 1960s, late summer, mid-afternoon. (enter Japanese Artist, stage left, followed by Assistants. They move to the museum s sculpture garden. Assistants disrobe. Guests, upstage, take notice and seem shocked. Japanese Artist produces a brush and paints colorful polka dots ...