The Art of the Flame-Out

After 40 years in a mental-hospital exile, ahead-of-her-time Japanese rabble-rouser Yayoi Kusama is making trouble again. Finally, the art world is paying attention.

 

Kusama’s is a wonderful behind-the-music story, the outsider with destiny in her sights, who moves to the big city to prove herself, then collapses under the strain of striving, only to stage a comeback, bigger than ever.

 

Kusama calls her work “art-medicine”—for both herself and the rest of us. “I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.”

 

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Content Curator Pat Novak

Intuitive Counselor/Mentor for over twenty years. I Create, Curate and Integrate Content on the Human and Digital Experience. Inspiration, Enchantment and Shadow. I love people, thrive on exercise, the outdoors and time alone.

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