{"id":862037,"date":"2026-09-27T03:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862037\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T03:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:22:25","slug":"when-infinity-becomes-finite-how-will-yayoi-kusamas-death-influence-the-art-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/862037\/","title":{"rendered":"When infinity becomes finite: How will Yayoi Kusama\u2019s death influence the art market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1966, Yayoi Kusama appeared at the Venice Biennale with 1,500 mirrored plastic spheres and spread them across the lawn outside the Italian Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>She had not been formally invited to exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>The work was \u201cNarcissus Garden,\u201d and Kusama began offering individual spheres to visitors for 1,200 lire, about $2 at the time, until Biennale officials stopped the sales. The gesture turned repetition into spectacle and spectacle into commerce. An apparently endless field of identical objects could, one by one, be bought and carried away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1966, Yayoi Kusama appeared at the Venice Biennale with 1,500 mirrored plastic spheres and spread them across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,9543,363810,65205],"class_list":["post-862037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-japanese-artists","tag-yayoi-kusama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}