Artistic interventions by Yayoi Kusama and Lucas Samaras on everyday objects rendering them unusable, thereby transforming them into memorable works of art.
<<To make ”Accumulation No. 1”, her earliest sculpture, Kusama covered an armchair with stuffed and painted phallic protrusions. She hand-sewed each of these elements, later explaining, ”I make them and make them and keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this obliteration.” When she first exhibited this work, critics were shocked by the humorous, sexualized transformation of an ordinary domestic object. Since then, over the course of her fifty-year career, Kusama has created ”accumulations” of various materials on furniture, domestic objects, clothing and even room-sized environments.>>
<<”Book 4” is a multifaceted object and a miniature world in itself. Although it includes eight fictional narratives written by the artist and surprises such as pop-ups, pockets, interlocking layers, foldouts and hidden pamphlets, it is not a storybook. Encrusted with needles and shards of glass in addition to brightly coloured beads and pieces of mirror, it is difficult, if not dangerous, to handle – the better, perhaps, to guard the secrets that it might contain.>>
MoMA, views from the permanent collection.
January 30th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 
Thank you for the lovely photos. It’s wonderful to be able to experience these collections, though we can’t always be there irl
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You are most welcome JoAnn – and thank you for browsing! Stay tuned for more if you’re interested – this is a large series. MoMA’s collection is so vast and fascinating, it will probably fill these pages for most of September!
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Great photos! Nice selection for the challenge!
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Thank you! I thought it might be an interesting contribution 🙂
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They are nice pieces of work.
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Stimulating in every sense 😉
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That book could be the metaphor for being a writer…to protect the writing/soul inside of it and to protect the reader from what it divulges. M. has a membership – I wonder if he has seen and thought of this~
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”The Unreadable” might be its title… happy to have caught it as part ”From the Collection: 1960-1969” display. Not sure how often it is on view but I noticed they rotate works.
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