THEN AND NOW

AAP 30: “Yayoi Kusama: An Unwritten Biography,” by Takemi Kuresawa

These days, Yayoi Kusama’s ubiquity in the art world is taken for granted. But how did an eccentric, fiercely independent and largely self-taught artist come to prominence, first in New York in the 1960s and then again, in Japan, in the 1980s? Japanese critic Takemi Kuresawa attempts to answer this in his Essay, “An Unwritten Biography: Overturning