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The Afternoon Story · Sep 3, 2026
The overlooked origins of Yayoi Kusama’s art
Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time.
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