{"id":583486,"date":"2026-08-29T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:00:18","slug":"yayoi-kusama-who-splashed-polka-dots-across-the-art-world-dies-at-97-in-tokyo-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/583486\/","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across the art world, dies at 97 in Tokyo &#8211; Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxOVnMtQ3pDZ0h1SWNtd0JTb2NXb3NqZzIyX2NwUjZQVFJuaEg4Z0FJcU52RVN5SUNXdi1kLTRvSklNbVhKbW9kby1EeldlUjc5VXY2aVI3U0FlOWtLbWhPOU1oQUJ2SEc4S2ttLTBUYTNXRUtPcWhmMmJwOW1JVm9tTWJRNmJNNmp4U1hBTFdEYUc4SjUwLVBRam96UldtMk0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across the art world, dies at 97 in Tokyo<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxPektzQmEwcmNtdnBYYzRtRnoybVlSZll0Qmt6WEVTQk1DUnF4am84OVd6YU5QUkxZbzFpcEY4YlYzR0hsOUtaVDVEYWdZVjZEb25KZ255bjRVRWFvTmxUVWt6T3dmcDloUXpXbW9LX0NXWGxpNFlCQnRCOGduQkJibXdkQ3RRdUFfZFV0MWtRY21kc0ZwQWNzVG9B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Remember when Wellington went dotty for artist Yayoi Kusama<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxQUDR1UjBVcE51UEVzNGZLWTdNVGF0YmNad2IyNUxRMnJPQTA1YzhkOGZFQjg2S3NDMDFTb2NWVTBwNDF1RmtMeVpTbjNaWE5SWkJTSUNURkMwaFpMWlVsU1E2ZFZzQWNicV8wcXlKaFNnNFM1UHBYdTRURkUyRWZ3Q1Q1WnRsbWFCeHB4UUgyWkhrNHl6NjF6aTlHVkdzd0k?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yayoi Kusama \u2013 a life in pictures<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxNRTdLWWtNTTVzSVpEcGRZenBiUHM2LXlsWW1qNHoyWklCdkJ2RjVVZWRGQ3gtREkwSFZ1aVZjOHZkYzJfRnoyMjJvbnp4R2lJcWo3Qi1xVUxUNXJ1dEQ3YWVLUVhCaXpfUmNUNzdmckZ3b0ZuanN2Y3o5T01NY1FNektUMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">For better or worse, Yayoi Kusama\u2019s Infinity Rooms reshaped the world<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE40bHJXcGJTV2JRTGxjY08wRE9HanZVbk94TkxMY3ZOZjdNUXdtRGl5T2RXdkU5UnVXUzNsS0Z5VlpLOHpSRTZZNEtweFlLMl91dnI0YmtmZEljUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In pictures: The dotty world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across the art world, dies at 97 in Tokyo&nbsp;&nbsp;StuffRemember when Wellington went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-583486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}