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Yayoi Kusama, Walking Piece (1966). Photo: Yayoi Kusama, courtesy of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Yayoi Kusama: From Scandal and Shame to National Icon

Once dismissed as scandalous and disreputable at home, Yayoi Kusama returned to Japan an international star. Her transformation into a national icon reflects the power of foreign recognition, as well as Japan’s enduring conflicts with mental illness, sexuality and female autonomy

Wakana Kaitani
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, courtesy of the Library of Congress

Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Risks Fiscal Collapse

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post warn that the Kennedy Center faces “fiscal collapse” within weeks, after ticket sales and fundraising plunged amid upheaval following Donald Trump’s takeover

The Art Journal
Lonnie G. Bunch III at the Civil Rights Summit, April 9, 2014. Photo: Lauren Gerson / LBJ Presidential Library. CC BY 2.0.

What Will Lonnie Bunch’s Legacy Be?

In his 38-years working for the Smithsonian museums, departing Secretary Lonnie Bunch, has led the Smithsonian through expansions and turbulent times, standing firm in the telling of America’s history

Lucrezia Motta
Raqib Shaw. Photo: Joseph Sinclair, courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Seoul.

The Painter: Raqib Shaw Embraces the Night

For his first UK solo exhibition since 2015, the Kashmir-born painter draws on childhood memories, Kashmiriyat philosophy, Shakespeare and a world in turmoil to consider what the darkness can reveal

Lucrezia Motta
Image courtesy Berlin Art Week. Photo: Joe Clark

Berlin Is Learning to Live With the Cuts

Berlin Art Week finds a city remaking its cultural economy, as institutions seek private money, galleries test new models and artists are squeezed out. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports on the ground

Jeni Fulton
Edward Norton as the Narrator in Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher. Courtesy 20th Century Fox

Help! I Hate My...Ennui

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen offers solace to an art worker who fears she has lost the love for everything that surrounds art – and maybe the work itself

Charlotte Jansen
Richard Drew’s The Falling Man, photographed in New York on 11 September 2001. © Richard Drew / AP, courtesy AP

The Art 9/11 Made

Before artists could respond to 9/11, images of the event had already circled the world. Twenty-five years later, art still struggles to represent a uniquely cinematic catastrophe, one experienced and understood largely through its visual record

Tom Seymour