Yayoi Kusama: Polka Dot Princess

Yayoi Kusama via The Whitney

Yayoi Kusama at The Whitney in NYC

Yayoi Kusama in her Tokyo Studio via Wall Street Journal

Yayoi Kusama via artnet

Yayoi Kusama via artnet

Yayoi Kusama in her Tokyo studio

Yayoi Kusama wrapped building in Manhattan

Yayoi Kusama "pumpkin" made of fiberglass reinforced plastic

Yayoi Kusama via artnet

Kusama / Louis Vuitton collaboration via My Modern Met

Yayoi Kusama's Louis Vuitton windows via My Modern Met

Dizzying Kusama / Louis Vuitton installation and collaboration

Kusama / Louis Vuitton collaboration--art to wear--via My Modern Met

Yayoi Kusam's Louis Vuitton Window via My Modern Met

Dizzying dots and eye-popping polka dots, the trademarks of Japanese-born visual and performance artist Yayoi Kusama. For Kusama art is a necessity--"art as medicine." By choice Kusama lives and works in a psychiatric facility in Japan. Her madness--she sees dots! There is a retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum in NYC until September 30, 2012.