Catch Yayoi Kusama's latest exhibit in Italy

By at 11:47 am Tuesday, Dec 8

catalogo.jpeg If you're in Milan anytime between now and February 14, 2010, I highly recommend that you check out octogenarian avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibit at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Kusama lives in a mental hospital in Tokyo, but she's still a prolific producer of art filled with dots and repetitions; in a biographical documentary titled I Love Me, she claims that drawing is the only thing that makes her feel normal.

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Lisa Katayama

I'm a contributing editor here at Boing Boing. I also have a blog (TokyoMango), a book (Urawaza), and I freelance for Wired, Make, the NY Times Magazine, PRI's Studio360, etc. I'm @tokyomango on Twitter.

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