Yayoi Kusama

Advanced age and the pandemic have done [blank] to deter Japan's Yayoi Kusama. At 93, the world's best-selling living female artist is still painting daily at the psychiatric hospital she voluntarily checked [blank] and has lived in since the 1970s. Best known for her signature pumpkin sculptures and polka-dot paintings, which can command millions of dollars at auction, Kusama's success has skyrocketed in the past decade. Some of her latest creations feature [blank] early drawings in a new exhibition at Hong Kong's M+ museum. Bringing together more than 200 works, "Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to now" spans seven decades as the largest retrospective of her art in Asia outside her home country. "Kusama is so much more than pumpkin sculptures and polka-dot patterns," the museum's deputy director Doryun Chong explained. "She is a thinker of deep philosophy - a ground-breaking figure [blank] has really revealed so much about herself, her vulnerability and her struggles as the source of inspiration for her art."