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Where to See Yayoi Kusama’s Art Around the World

he’s been dubbed the “world’s favorite artist.” But while images of her kaleidoscopic infinity rooms are hot on Instagram, she’s no derivative newcomer to the art scene. This Japanese pop-art icon has been creating fresh work since the 1950s, and her creative output hasn’t subsided. Now a nonagenarian who has voluntarily made a home for herself in a Tokyo psychiatric asylum, Yayoi Kusama continues to produce the signature larger-than-life polka-dotted pumpkins,

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