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Yoshitomo Nara takes centre stage on the second day of Hong Kong auction week as his records were broken shortly one after another today. His installation art _Not Everything but/ Green House _was sol

My most recent visit to the Rockaways was to experience Yayoi Kusama’s magnificent Narcissus Garden (1966–present) in a still intact if ramshackle former train repair facility, dating to the time wh

First presented by the artist as an unofficial project outside the Italian pavilion at the 1966 Venice Biennale, Narcissus Garden (1966) consists of 1,500 reflective orbs spread throughout a space.

Art lovers and Instagram fanatics will both have a good reason to head to the Rockaways this summer: Yayoi Kusama's shimmering Narcissus Garden will be installed there starting July 1. The work is

In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments abroad. The mood

Surface Work, a survey show of women abstract artists across Victoria Miro’s Mayfair and Wharf Road galleries, reveals an alternative history of how much women have already achieved. From the examp

There are certain shows that change one's sense of art. Surface Work is one of them. Spread across two sites, it is nothing less than an anthology of abstract painting spanning an entire century, fr

Donald Trump will make an appearance of sorts at this year’s Art Central fair in Hong Kong. Visitors will find him in a 1930s-style living room hidden among the gallery booths filled with abstract pai

Seventeen years in the making, the documentary Kusama - Infinity, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, witnesses Yayoi Kusama moving from obscurity in late 1950s New York City to i

Glowing pumpkins, psychedelic polka dots and infinite mirror reflections: the grand dame of Japan's art world, Yayoi Kusama, has long been famed as the anti-queen of minimalism. So it might come as so

METZ, France — French and Japanese flags flap in tandem at the Pompidou Center here, hailing the fall program at this sister venue of the Paris museum of contemporary art. Its exhibitions include one

Chinese collectors have so quickly become a mainstay of the art market that it is easy to forget that wealthy Southeast Asian connoisseurs started buying contemporary art decades earlier.

A peek at some projects around New York.

The first edition of the Honolulu Biennial brings together 33 artists from the Pacific Islands, Asia and North America.

Like most private museums, Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a reflection of the tastes of its founder—in this case the sex-and-death inclined David Walsh.

The Armory Show, opening to the public today and running through 5 March at Piers 92 and 94 on the west side of Manhattan, is the subject of scrutiny this year, the first fully under new executive dir

London gallery Victoria Miro will present a recent, 11-piece installation by Yayoi Kusama.

The unlikely mecca for top artists—James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, Walter De Maria—and their patrons is commanding global attention.

The young Kusama dealt with her hallucinations by drawing.

At 87, with two new exhibitions, Yayoi Kusama is busier than ever.

Morris became the head of displays at Tate Modern in 2000, the year it opened in the converted Bankside Power Station on London’s Southbank, and became director of international art in 2006.

The key strength of ‘On the Origin of Art’ is the conflation between two typically anomalous worlds.

This year, 131 galleries from 27 countries exhibited, just over a third of them from Southeast Asia.

The psychedelic and experimental spirit of Yayoi Kusama is celebrated in a recent exhibition at Hirshhorn, Washington D.C.