Akira Tatehata is a poet and art critic who has been awarded the 2005 Takami Jun Award for Literature. Laura Hoptman is a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Udo Kultermann was a curator and art historian who taught at Washington University in St. Louis. Catherine Taft is deputy director of LAXART in Los Angeles.
When people look back at Kusama's work decades from now, they'll see that her idea of creation and infinity has an eternal endurance. -Marc Jacobs The effect of Kusama's work is both so complex and simple. It is produced by the interaction of the two close somewhat parallel planes, at points merging at the surface and at others diverging slightly but powerfully. -Donald Judd Yayoi Kusama comes with a pedigree of film and orchestrated happenings and performance in New York during the 1960s and the 1970s that was every bit as avant-garde as Warhol. -The Art Review Power 100