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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who filled the world with polka dots, dead at 97 [Article]
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Arcanepotato crazypeople.online Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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A few photos from the 2018 exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, including an interactive portion where visitors put dots on objects.

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
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What's the censored thing supposed to be? A big dotted dildo?

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cannedtuna lemmy.world cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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zwerg feddit.org zwerg@feddit.org
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What's the censored thing supposed to be? A big dotted dildo?

"...repeated phallic shaped forms..." That's probably a yes...

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Arcanepotato crazypeople.online Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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What's the censored thing supposed to be? A big dotted dildo?

Yes.

(It's people, I blurred them out but not the others because it's a front on face shot and because it was distracting from the rest of the work).

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Jo Miran lemmy.ml JoMiran@lemmy.ml
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damnthefilibuster lemmy.world damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
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Dammit.

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xangadix lemmy.world xangadix@lemmy.world
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I think her work was a lot more then her famed polkadots, I feel like the title doesn't do her justice.

I saw an overview her work in Bilbao and what struck me the most were a couple of school classes, kids aged maybe 7 or 8 who really loved her work and were all sitting down in the gallery space absorbing it 🤗😊

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Arcanepotato crazypeople.online Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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I think her work was a lot more then her famed polkadots, I feel like the title doesn't do her justice. I saw an overview her work in Bilbao and what struck me the most were a couple of school classes, kids aged maybe 7 or 8 who really loved her work and were all sitting down in the gallery space absorbing it 🤗😊

It was really magical stuff. I don't normally bother with things that have timed entrances and long lines but it was so worth it to get to go inside a few Infinity Mirror Rooms. The AGO acquired one of them after the exhibition, so there is a lot more opportunities for people in the area to experience it.

Yay for kids in galleries! I'll take a few rambunctious kids over some know-it-all offering unsolicited interpretation to strangers any day.

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themoken startrek.website themoken@startrek.website
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This sucks, caught her work in LA and DC and her walk in exhibits are phenomenal.

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mbp slrpnk.net mbp@slrpnk.net
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Broooo no way

What an awful week

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Coelacanth feddit.nu Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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Broooo no way What an awful week

Why are the deaths always clustered? Horrible.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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I heard the hype. I read about her. I got tickets to see her exhibit at the AGO. I sat down in an infinity room and it was pretty impactful. I want to build one in my house.

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fibojoly sh.itjust.works fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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Oh, well played!
Still sad, but well played.

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