This video of her changed my life:

https://youtu.be/21NrNdse7nI

I realized that art was a way to let my crazy run downhill.

It was just a random Youtube recommendation.

I’ve been subscribed to the Louisiana Channel ever since.

My submission of the video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338528

If you're ever in the San Francisco Airport, you can see her installation there: https://www.sfomuseum.org/public-art/public-collection/high-...

I really liked them, and I made a point to walk to this piece every time I am visiting SFO.

Sad! I really enjoyed going to the Kusama exhibit with my (now) wife years ago, and my daughter had a Kusama phase when she was about 5 years old and dressed up like her with a hot pink wig and polka dot outbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama

http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/

I found out about her from the Polkadot blockchain test network called Kusama. Strange but cool way to find out about an amazing artist. Rest in peace.

I had an amazing time visiting her exhibit when it came through my town. Being in the mirror rooms was really fun and her glowing glass pumpkins and squashes are playful in form and color and fun to look at.

There were unfortunately so many people who insisted on taking photos of themselves inside the mirror rooms that they would drop their phones and break the glass sculptures. How frustrating that people can't just enjoy art directly!

Yayoi Kusama's illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is easily one of my most cherished possessions.

Kusama was undeniably a legend who has left an indelible mark in the art world. She will be sorely missed.

https://50wattsbooks.com/products/alices-adventures-in-wonde...

My avatar on GitHub has been of one of her Infinity Rooms for years.

https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12610?v=4

I never felt like I had enough time to spend in these spaces. To imagine creating them from scratch…incredible.

English statement from her museum/foundation: https://yayoi-kusama.jp/en/news4518/

This fall there will be an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She stayed for some time in the Netherlands, met with Dutch artists, and organized events with them.

Several years ago I was at a conference in Las Vegas and discovered that one of her "infinity mirror rooms" was on display at... can't remember the exact location... maybe the Bellagio, but one of the major casinos along the strip. I eventually found it, but it was SO out of place -- A moment of art in a sea of crude commerce. Still... I was happy to have seen it. Major props to my spouse who has an uncanny ability to find interesting things, even in Vegas.

What a loss. I enjoyed engaging with her art in Naoshima, almost as if by accident. The sculpture with the polka dots really called my attention back then, and it was my first encounter with her art.

End of an era. The infinity rooms are unforgettable experiences in person. Glad her work touched so many lives during such a remarkably long career.

Went to her exhibit in 2021 in Gropius Bau. Her art has been my phone background ever since. RIP

"The truth is where the sculptor's chisel stripped away the lie." Kusama-san definitely embodied that statement.

there is a 2018 documentary on her life titled Kusama: Infinity. it appears you can watch it online for free now.

https://archive.ph/SkMrL

Such an awesome figure.

That’s three!

I once thought I'd test the hypothesis that the frequency of HN front page stories reporting a death was increasing over time. Started figuring out how to get the data, got distracted by life, and never got back to it.

edit: that was not a criticism of such stories, but I was alluding to the fact that the generation that pioneered early computing in the 70's and 80's are getting older.