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August 28 2026
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dies at 97
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Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama.
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A wax model of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is displayed in the windows of Louis Vuitton’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York, in this July 10, 2012, file photograph.
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A woman walks through the artwork ‘A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe’ by Yayoi Kusama during the press preview of a retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany, on April 22, 2021.
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama poses for photographers in front of her painting ‘Love Arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos’ (centre bottom), and other paintings at the Tate Modern in London on February 7, 2012.
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‘Pumpkin’ by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during the Ravenel auction press preview in Hong Kong, on November 23, 2012.
Renowned contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama has died at age 97 in a Tokyo hospital. Kusama’s work was shown in museums around the world. Repetitive motifs in various shapes were her trademark, especially dots that danced on canvases or sparkled as balls or dots of light in her installations.