Remembering Yayoi Kusama

Skip to main content Subscribe Yayoi Kusama at LACMA, 1998, © Yayoi Kusama, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA Remembering Yayoi Kusama September 4, 2026 Lynn Zelevansky In the mid-1990s, when I was assisting on a reinstallation of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, I came across a 1962 collage made of file folder labels that reflected the formal values of Minimalism—repetition, geometric form, and the grid—made as that highly influential art tendency was emerging. It was composed of vertical lines of file folder labels that undulated gently as they marched in li

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