{"id":4521,"date":"2026-08-27T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:00:32","slug":"news4518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/en\/news4518\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of the Passing of Yayoi Kusama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with profound sorrow that the passing of Yayoi Kusama at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry.<br \/>\nShe continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush, and continued exploration of forever love and eternal soul.<\/p>\n<p>We will carry forward Kusama&#8217;s wishes and, through art, continue to bring hope and strength for the future to people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yayoi Kusama Inc.<br \/>\nYayoi Kusama Studio Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with profound sorrow that the passing of Yayoi Kusama at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Throughout an extraordinary lifetime devoted entirely to artistic creation, Kusama pursued an internationally acclaimed career as a pioneering avant-garde artist whose creative practice encompassed visual art, performance, fiction, and poetry. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/en\/news4518\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Announcement of the Passing of Yayoi Kusama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/?p=4518","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,38],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2020s","tag-2026y","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayoi-kusama.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}