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Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist remembered as a visionary and a rebel, dies at 97

Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s, and whose mirrored "Infinity Room" installations became selfie sensations and blockbuster museum and gallery attractions in recent decades, died Aug.

Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist remembered as a visionary and a rebel, dies at 97

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Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s, and whose mirrored "Infinity Room" installations became selfie sensations and blockbuster museum and gallery attractions in recent decades, died Aug.

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Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s, and whose mirrored "Infinity Room" installations became selfie sensations and blockbuster museum and gallery attractions in recent decades, died Aug.

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