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Photos of artist Yayoi Kusama and her signature polka dots
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.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
A woman walks through the art work ‘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, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
A man walks past a work ” Pumpkin ” by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama during the Ravenel auction press preview in Hong Kong Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, wearing a bright red wig and a Louis Vuitton polka dot scarf, speaks during an interview at her studio in Tokyo, on Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
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’, center bottom, and other paintings at the Tate Modern in London, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE -A woman takes a photo during her visit at the art work ‘The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens’ by Yayoi Kusama, part of retrospective exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
A wax model of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is displayed in the windows of Louis Vuitton’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama speaks during an interview at her studio, filled with wall-sized paintings throbbing with her repetitive dots, in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
Redan Magbanua views Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room at the Broad museum, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, in downtown Los Angeles. The contemporary art museum founded by philanthropist Eli Broad opened in September. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Exhibition assistant Kathrin DuBois of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne arranges chess board figures of the Japanese artist’s Yayoi Kusama installation ‘Pumpkin Chess’ in the Porzellanikon Museum in Selb, southern Germany, on Thursday, April 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)