During her final decades, Yayoi Kusama, who died last week at 97, was most well-known for her Infinity Rooms and the lines of fans waiting to take selfies inside. “These spectacles turned a radical artist into one of the most generic brands on Earth and made it harder to see the incredible depth of her body of work,” writes Jerry Saltz. “By the 21st century, an artist who had once struggled for attention was impossible to escape. Or avoid. Kusama became Kusama™. Suddenly, Kusama was a logo, a one-liner. The vast Kusama industrial complex flattened a once astonishingly strange artist, but the visionary power of the language she invented is harder to ignore.”
The Infinity Rooms, which began in 1965, weren’t originally intended as entertainment. They were an attempt at disrupting the stable boundaries between the self, objects, surrounding space, and architecture. Inside one, the individual is both multiplied and diminished. “Kusama saw repetition before repetition became the condition of contemporary life. She saw infinite images before the infinite scroll. She saw the self multiplied endlessly before social media gave each of us a hall of mirrors,” writes Saltz. “It only took almost a century, but Kusama succeeded in making the world more like herself.”
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York has added eight CryptoPunks and eight Chromie Squiggles to its permanent collection. The acquisition, which comes via donations from multiple collectors, is the latest acquisition by a major museum of on-chain art and one of the medium’s most significant institutional endorsements to date.
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Ruth Leavitt (1944–2025) was a pioneering digital artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, who explored the boundaries of form through algorithmic programs, creating multifaceted and dynamic visual constructions
A Celebration of Pioneer Ruth Leavitt (1944-2025)
Ruth Leavitt in 1984: "…my intention is to make visible those elements which create change…What was once only an idea, becomes reality with the aid of the computer."
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Saudi Arabia Unveils Groundbreaking Digital Art Institute @DAFmoc in $62.2 Billion Diriyah Cultural Complex
A state-of-the-art digital art hub, Diriyah Art Futures, opened its doors in Riyadh, showcasing cutting-edge laboratories
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95,000 thanks ❤️ This weekend, the artist @soficrespo91 has awakened the nature of the façade with the projection of the work 'Structures of Being'. The legacy of Gaudí has a bright future ahead! https://t.co/dO0UOhBCgK
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