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Exhibition flyer for Kusama’s first solo exhibition in the US, Yayoi Kusama, Dusanne Gallery, Seattle, 8–28 December 1957

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Exhibition announcement card for Kusama’s first solo exhibition in New York, Yayoi Kusama, Brata Gallery, 9–29 October 1959

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Exhibition flyer for Recent Paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Nova Gallery, Boston, 23 November – 12 December 1959

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Exhibition announcement card for Yayoi Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, 19 April – 14 May 1960

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Exhibition poster for a group exhibition featuring Kusama, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC, 15 November – 17 December 1960

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Exhibition flyer for Kusama’s second solo exhibition in New York, Yayoi Kusama: Paintings, Stephen Radich Gallery, 2–27 May 1961

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Exhibition flyer for a group exhibition featuring works by Kusama, Green Gallery, New York, January 1963

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Installation photograph of Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, 1964
Photographer: Lock Huey

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Invitation to the exhibition preview of Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, 20 April 1964

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Exhibition poster for Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, 21 April – 9 May 1964
Original photographs: Peter Moore

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American magazine Art Voices showing Kusama with her artwork My Flower Bed, 1962, on the cover, autumn 1965

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Kusama in her apartment, New York, c. 1961 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama in her studio, New York, 1959 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama in her studio, New York, c. 1961 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama standing in front of an Infinity Net painting in her solo exhibition at Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, May 1961 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Installation view of a group exhibition featuring work by Kusama (second from right), alongside works by Claes Oldenburg and others, Green Gallery, New York, 1962 © Rudy Burckhardt. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2024

Installation view of a group exhibition featuring work by Kusama (second from right) alongside works by Andy Warhol and others, Green Gallery, New York, 1962 © Rudy Burckhardt. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2024

Kusama with her Compulsion (Accumulation) furniture, New York, c. 1964 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama in Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, 1964 © Rudy Burckhardt. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2024

Installation view of Driving Image Show, Castellane Gallery, New York, 1964 © Northwestern University. Photo: Peter Moore

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Exhibition catalogue for Driving Image Show, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan, 26 January – 9 February 1966

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Exhibition poster for a group exhibition featuring Kusama, Tentoonstelling Nul (Zero Exhibition), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 9–26 March 1962

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Exhibition announcement card for a group exhibition featuring Kusama, Total-Realismus, Galerie Potsdamer, Berlin, 1966

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Exhibition catalogue for a joint exhibition of work by Yayoi Kusama and Christiaan Paul Damsté, Markt 17 art gallery, Enschede, Netherlands, April 1968

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Exhibition guide for a group exhibition featuring Kusama, Zero Avantgarde, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, May 1965

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Kusama in the Netherlands for her solo exhibition at Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague, 1965 © Marianne Dommisse / Nederlands Fotomuseum

Kusama at the opening of her solo exhibition Driving Image Show, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan, 1966

Kusama with Lucio Fontana in his studio, Milan, 1966

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Poster for Kusama’s Self-Obliteration screenings, The Blue Dome, New York, 9 & 10 February 1968

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Poster for Kusama’s Self-Obliteration screenings, The Gymnasium, New York, 26 & 27 January 1968

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Poster for Body Festival happening, Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park, New York, 15 & 16 July 1967

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Poster for Body Festival happening, Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1 & 2 September 1967

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Poster for Phallics Festival happening, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, 11 February 1968

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Invitation for Homosexual Wedding, New York, 25 November 1968

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Homosexual Orgy happening, Kusama’s studio, New York, 1968
Photographer: Bill Baron

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Homosexual Orgy happening with participants draped in the American flag, Kusama’s studio, New York, 1968
Photographer: Bill Baron

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Mirror Performance, New York, 1968

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Mirror Performance, New York, 1968
Photographers: Harry Shunk and János Kender

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Mirror Performance, New York, 1968
Photographers: Harry Shunk and János Kender

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Photo shoot at The Factory, New York, 1968
Photographer: Stan Goldstein

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Photo shoot at The Factory, New York, 1968
Photographer: Stan Goldstein

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Body-painting happening, Bungei-shunju-sha studio, Tokyo, 1970
© BUNGEISHUNJU LTD

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Body-painting happening, Bungei-shunju-sha studio, Tokyo, 1970
© BUNGEISHUNJU LTD

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Horse Play happening, Woodstock, New York, 1967 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Happening at St Mark’s Place, near the Dom, New York, 1967. Photo: Hervé Gloaguen

Burn the Panties happening, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Happening at First Presbyterian Church, New York, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Anatomic Explosion happening, Trinity Church, New York, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Anatomic Explosion happening, New York Stock Exchange, 1968 © Bob Sabin. Photo: Bob Sabin

Kusama’s Bonnie and Clyde performance, 1968. Photo: J. Wollach

Body-painting happening, Kusama’s studio, New York, 1968. Photo: Mikihasa Ando

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Anatomic Explosion happening at the Statue of Liberty, New York, 1968

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Anatomic Explosion happening at the Statue of Liberty, New York, 1968

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Anti-war happening, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1968

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Anatomic Explosion, Alice in Wonderland happening, Central Park, New York, 1968
Photographer: Bob Sabin

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Anatomic Explosion happening, New York Stock Exchange, 1968
Photographer: Bob Sabin

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Contact sheet showing photos of Anatomic Explosion at the Board of Elections happening, New York, 1968

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Bust Out happening, Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York, 1969

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Front page of Daily News showing coverage of Kusama’s Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead in the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden, New York, 25 August 1969

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Body painting happening, The New School for Social Research, New York, 1970
Photographer: Yoshikazu Aono

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Body painting happening, The New School for Social Research, New York, 1970
Photographer: Yoshikazu Aono

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Advertisement for Kusama’s Orgy magazine in The Swinging Headhunter, vol. 1, no. 14, 1969

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Kusama Presents an Orgy of Nudity, Love, Sex & Beauty, vol. 1, no. 2, 1969
magazine, original edition

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Advertisement for Kusama’s Orgy magazine in The Swinging Headhunter, vol. 1, no. 15, 1969

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Kusama Presents an Orgy of Nudity, Love, Sex & Beauty, vol. 1, no. 2, 1969
magazine, original edition
Collection of Lito and Kim Camacho

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Fashion happening, Kusama’s studio, New York, 1968

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Photos from Kusama’s happenings printed in Sophisticated Swapper, 13 June 1969
Original photographs: Stan Goldstein

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Models and Kusama wearing Kusama clothing, 1968

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‘Kusama’ feature article in Bachelor, June 1969

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Kusama featured in New York Scenes, February 1969

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Kusama, c. 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama Fashion, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama Fashion, 1968. Photo: Stan Goldstein

Kusama’s Squid Dress, 1968. Photo: Stan Goldstein

Kusama’s happening at her New York studio, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Fashion show on rooftop, New York, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama’s fashion happening in her New York studio, 1968 © YAYOI KUSAMA

Newspaper clipping advertising Kusama Boutique, 1969 © YAYOI KUSAMA