Even after speaking to the Deputy Director for Curatorial & Collections Development at the National Gallery Singapore, Russell Storer, and its Curator Dr Adele Tan we were still transfixed on the wonder that is Yayoi Kusama. Digging a little deeper online, here are eight more extraordinary facts about the Queen of Polka dots.
02 She found encouragement in famed painter Georgia O’Keefe
Kusama came across a book of O’Keefe’s paintings and wrote to the painter to express her admiration and desire to leave Japan. O’Keefe responded back ‘with kindness and generosity’, giving Kusama the courage to go to New York and establish her art career.
