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.
04 Kusama considered pop artist Andy Warhol a ‘good friend’
However, she indicted him for plagiarising her 1963 work, Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, a boat covered in phalluses and with wallpaper of said boat covering the room. Three years later, Warhol created a wallpaper with a repeating pattern of a cow.
