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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 27, 2026

Yayoi Kusama, Who Turned Her Hallucinations Into Infinity, Dies at 97

She began painting as a child to cope with what she saw, wrote to Georgia O'Keeffe before moving to New York in 1958, and lived by choice in a Tokyo mental health facility from the mid-1970s while her mirrored rooms travelled the world.

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By Valentina Di Liscia · Hyperallergic

Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026)
Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026)
Design

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Arts & Culture

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  2. Hans Op de Beeck Drains the Color Out of Everyday Stillness

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  3. “Art Is Art. Fashion Is Fashion”: A Lagerfeld Show Tests the Line

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Sound

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Collecting
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  3. The School Year, Traced Through a Century of Postcards and Ephemera

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  4. Mattel Shrank the Whole of Oz Into a Polly Pocket Case

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Document

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Film

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