Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, into a family involved in seed cultivation and commerce. From an early age, she produced drawings marked by dense fields of repeated marks, a practice that would remain central throughout her career. Formal training began at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, where she …
When Georgia O’Keeffe’s first art exhibition opened in New York in the spring of 1916, the city vibrated with modern ambition. The streets hummed with the electric excitement of a rapidly changing America—skyscrapers rising like steel prayers into the heavens, taxis weaving through the shadows of elevated train lines, the lingering scent of coal smoke …
