Why Kusama first started making polka dots | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS

Описание: Yayoi Kusama explored symbols of our ability to start afresh even in the darkest times in some of her early works, Infinity Nets (1951) and Accumulation (1952). Samantha Friedman, associate curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, talks about the pair of Kusama works featured in the exhibition Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury.

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