From Tokyo to USA: Kusama`s eternal love of polka dots
(Artdaily.org)

She has two major exhibitions opening simultaneously in Japan and the United States at the venerable age of 87 -- but Yayoi Kusama is nowhere near her last hurrah. Living and creating are inseparable for the red-wigged avant-garde Japanese artist, as she explained to reporters in Tokyo on the eve of her show opening at the National Art Center. `I`m grappling with creating art from morning to night every day,` Kusama said, sitting in a wheelchair wearing a kimono with one of her trademark yellow and black polka dot patterns. `I want to create with a serious mind as long as my life continues.` Kusama has authored no less than 520 pieces as part of her ongoing `My Eternal Soul` painting and sculpture series that began in 2009. And that`s only one of many projects in this