Images: Love Forever: The Genius of Kusama Yayoi

Unbearable Whereabouts of Love, 2014. From the series My Eternal Soul. (© Yayoi Kusama)

Kusama in her New York Studio in 1961 with several large Infinity Netspaintings covering the wall behind her. (© Yayoi Kusama)

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016. From the series Infinity Mirror Rooms. (© Yayoi Kusama)

Narcissus Garden, 1966. For this installation-cum-performance staged at the 33rd Venice Biennale, Kusama placed 1,500 mirror balls on the lawn and sold them individually to visitors in a satirical comment on the commercialism of the contemporary art scene. (© Yayoi Kusama)

Kusama in her New York studio in 1963, surrounded by her soft sculptures. (© Yayoi Kusama)

“Anti-War Naked Happening and Flag Burning on the Brooklyn Bridge,” 1968. Kusama has explained that she wanted to call attention to the beauty of the human body and the tragedy of sending young people to die in Vietnam as part of an "antiwar message promoting peace, love, and freedom from the shackles of social convention." (© Yayoi Kusama)