Comments on: Love, Yayoi Kusama http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/14/love-yayoi-kusama/ Blogging Asian Art and Culture Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:49:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: nico http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/14/love-yayoi-kusama/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 nico Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:26:46 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=1521#comment-1641 thank'ee, NN--here's the link again: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/28/walking-in-my-mind-review By all rights I shouldn't like her stuff that much, but I think she also reminds me of where some of my friends who create art obsessively <i>could</i> have gone, but didn't. I mean in terms of institutionalization, not success. thank’ee, NN–here’s the link again: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/28/walking-in-my-mind-review

By all rights I shouldn’t like her stuff that much, but I think she also reminds me of where some of my friends who create art obsessively could have gone, but didn’t. I mean in terms of institutionalization, not success.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/14/love-yayoi-kusama/comment-page-1/#comment-1629 Nancy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:50:22 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=1521#comment-1629 Rats! Sure messed up the formatting on that one but I think it's still readable. Rats! Sure messed up the formatting on that one but I think it’s still readable.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/14/love-yayoi-kusama/comment-page-1/#comment-1628 Nancy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:31:13 +0000 http://www.asianart.org/blog/?p=1521#comment-1628 I saw some of her work ages ago in NY and wasn't really sure what to think of it. But viewing it in person is a psychedelic experience - all those poka dots! I respect that she's kept at it, even though her health has been delicate at times. I like this interview with her from the Guardian web site and the quote is priceless: Kusama will be happy if the new exhibition "brings people around to the idea of the infinity of the cosmos and the beauty of life. Nothing I do stays in the gallery space. Everything I do is a walk in my mind. There are no limits." It seems almost inappropriate to ask if she ever considers retiring. "No. As long as I have the energy, I will carry on. I'd like to live 200 or 300 years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/06/yayoi-kusama-artI want to leave my message to my successors and future generations." I saw some of her work ages ago in NY and wasn’t really sure what to think of it. But viewing it in person is a psychedelic experience – all those poka dots! I respect that she’s kept at it, even though her health has been delicate at times. I like this interview with her from the Guardian web site and the quote is priceless:
Kusama will be happy if the new exhibition “brings people around to the idea of the infinity of the cosmos and the beauty of life. Nothing I do stays in the gallery space. Everything I do is a walk in my mind. There are no limits.” It seems almost inappropriate to ask if she ever considers retiring. “No. As long as I have the energy, I will carry on. I’d like to live 200 or 300 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/06/yayoi-kusama-artI want to leave my message to my successors and future generations.”

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