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TOKYO — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, renowned for her iconic polka dots, has died at the age of 97, according to her studio. She passed away on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo. Kusama’s…

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and one of the most influential and revolutionary artists of the 20th century. He co-founded the Cubist movement, which revolutionized art by breaking objects into geometric shapes. Picasso’s…

More than 65,000 images by photographers in 121 countries were submitted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The jurors selected 100 images, highlighting diverse wildlife and their habitats. The competition covers categories like…

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who became a global superstar, has died aged 97. Kusama died in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August, her company Yayoi Kusama Inc announced in a statement on Thursday….

In Seoul, the renowned contemporary art fair will no longer take place at the Korea Exhibition Center (COEX). Starting in 2027, Frieze Seoul will move to the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), the iconic multi-functional complex…

Yayoi Kusama, born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, had an unhappy childhood marked by hallucinations that she channeled into her art. Rejecting her conservative upbringing, she left Japan for New York in 1958, where her…

Mother Nature smiled on the final days of the 11th annual StrawFest Sculpting Contest in Mt. Morris on Aug. 22-23. Five teams of two competed in the Straw Bale Races on Wesley Avenue, with Jake…

I n the early 1970s, the Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun had a simple but novel idea: why not apply oil paint to the back of a surface rather than the front? Instead of canvas, he…