Yayoi Kusama exhibition to bring art star’s infinity rooms and polka dots to NGV
The National Gallery of Victoria will show eight decades of work by the Japanese artist who’s become an Instagram favourite in her 90s
June 2023
Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons review – a psychedelic pop-art garden of earthly delights
The 94-year-old Japanese trailblazer goes big – really big – with warehouse-filling inflatables of dolls, pumpkins and writhing tentacles instilling satisfaction and a stupid happiness
March 2023
Artists and footballers warm up for Manchester international festival
Janelle Monáe, work by Yayoi Kusama and Ryuichi Sakamoto and a collaboration between footballer Juan Mata and artist Tino Sehgal kick off at this summer’s event
January 2023
Battle for succession in house of Dior: siblings jostle to seize family crown
The world’s richest man, Bernard Arnault, is choosing which of his children will lead his $418bn conglomorate. Cue gold-plated intrigue and drama …
August 2022
Cultural prescription
And … relax: film, music, art and books for chilling out
From a sun-dappled Japanese purgatory to a weightless infinity of mirrors, our critics recommend art that both stimulates and soothes
August 2021
Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm
Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist’s work, which was swept off a pier near Naoshima
May 2021
‘My cheapo garden fairy lights do this too’ – Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms
The Japanese artist turns her visual hallucinations into a flaring and dimming clockwork universe. But I seem to be immune. Perhaps if I brought a small child or was interested in taking selfies …
April 2020
Yayoi Kusama's message to Covid-19: 'Disappear from this earth'
The veteran Japanese avant-garde artist has issued a poem of defiance in the teeth of the ‘terrible monster’, the coronavirus pandemic
March 2020
Lockdown culture
From standup to the Sistine chapel: the best online culture for self-isolation
The coronavirus crisis has closed galleries and concert halls – but inspired an explosion of creativity to enjoy at home. Here’s some of the best
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
'Old-fashioned awesome' – readers pick their favourite art of the 21st century
After we published our chart of the best art since 2000, you sent in your thoughts and suggestions, from price-slash Banksys to Yayoi Kusama’s oblivion
October 2018
Anatomy of an artwork
Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin: dot to dot veggie or metaphor for obliteration?
The Japanese pop artist combines her famous polka dots with Halloween’s motif of choice, the pumpkin
Kusama: Infinity review – colourful art doc connects the dots
A celebratory introduction to the work of Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s biggest-selling living artist, hints at the roots of her obsessive pattern-making
Yayoi Kusama review – about as artistic as a lava lamp
Her mirror installation will inspire selfies – but if she’s the greatest artist of our time, it doesn’t say much for our time
September 2018
Yayoi Kusama: the world's favourite artist?
After spending the past four decades in a psychiatric hospital, her name written out of art history, Yayoi Kusama became an art-world phenomenon in the age of the selfie
Yayoi Kusama: exhibition brings together 65 years of artist's bizarre works
September 2017
Avant-garde legend Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum in Tokyo
Five-storey building dedicated to 88-year-old artist attracts huge interest before opening, with visitors restricted to 200 a day
November 2016
David Walsh of Mona: on art, sex and why (gallery) size matters
In Mona’s most ambitious exhibition to date, four experts outside of the art world ask why humans make art – is it cultural, biological, or all about sex?
May 2016
Her infinite cosmos: Yayoi Kusama paints life, love and death - in pictures
Bursting with colour, form and organic energy, Yayoi Kusama’s latest paintings tackle mortality head on but at 87, the artist shows no signs of stopping yet
June 2015
Guardian Moscow week
Ping pong and polka dots in Gorky Park: Moscow's Garage gallery opens
Dasha Zhukova’s transformation of an abandoned cafeteria into a gallery designed by Rem Koolhaas has made once-grim Gorky Park cool
