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Yayoi Kusama died on August 14 in Tokyo, her studio announced today. She was 97, and the statement says she "continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush."
She spent the last 49 of those years living in a psychiatric hospital by choice, walking to the studio next door every morning. The gates in front of her — family, two art worlds, three decades of silence, her own mind — are the whole story.
Portrait: George Quasha, 2004