Modern Art Asia Issue 9: Special Issue on Yayoi Kusama

I’m pleased to announce that the latest issue (March 2012) of the journal Modern Art Asia – which I help to edit – is now online.

To coincide with the opening of a major Yayoi Kusama exhibit at Tate Modern – her first retrospective in the UK – and the translation of her autobiography, Infinity Net, into English, this issue presents three research papers offering new perspectives on the life and practice of this internationally regarded Japanese artist…

The Garment as Skin? Yayoi Kusama’s (Un)Clothing of the Body
Madeleine Newman

Living Art: Assaulting the Myths of Art and Illness
Judith E. Vida

Revisiting Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room-Phalli’s Field:
A Social Commentary on the Draft Resistance Movement
Orin Zahra

Yayoi Kusama, Tate Modern, 9th February – 12th June 2012
Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, Tate Publishing, 2012
Majella Munro

Rashid Rana, Everything is Happening at Once
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 14^th January – 31^st March
Amy Jane Barnes