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Inspired by art and graffiti in New York City subways, artist Keith Haring created iconic cartoon-like figures in public spaces all over the world. He incorporated many social and political themes into his work, including HIV/AIDS activism.

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Inspired by art and graffiti in New York City subways, artist Keith Haring created iconic cartoon-like figures in public spaces all over the world. He incorporated many social and political themes into his work, including HIV/AIDS activism.

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Who is she?

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is sometimes called 'the princess of polka dots'. Although she makes lots of different types of art - paintings, sculptures, performances and installations - they have one thing in common, DOTS!

What's with all the dots?

Yayoi Kusama tells the story of how when she was a little girl she had a hallucination that freaked her out. She was in a field of flowers when they all started talking to her! The heads of flowers were like dots that went on as far as she could see, and she felt as if she was disappearing or as she calls it 'self-obliterating' - into this field of endless dots. This weird experience influenced most of her later work.

By adding all-over marks and dots to her paintings, drawings, objects and clothes she feels as if she is making them (and herself) melt into, and become part of, the bigger universe. She said:

'Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment'.

She also creates environments of dots so that we can experience this feeling of self-obliteration too. She calls these rooms her 'Infinity Rooms', and creates them by installing hundreds of flashing coloured LED lights into mirrored rooms. The pinpricks of light in the dark room reflect endlessly in the mirrors, making you feel like you are in an apparently endless space. The dots surround and engulf you...it's very hard to tell where you end and where the rest of the room begins!

How did she start?

Yayoi was born in Japan in 1929. She loved drawing and painting and although her parents didn't want her to be an artist, she was determined. When her mum tore up her drawings, she made more. When she could not afford to buy art materials, she used mud and old sacks to make art. This is a drawing she made of her mum when she was 10-years-old.

Eventually Yayoi Kusama persuaded her parents to let her go to art school and study painting.

In the late 1950s she moved to New York as lots of the most exciting art seemed to be happening there. It must have been a bit frightening arriving in a big city with such a different culture from what she knew. But she was determined to conquer New York. She later wrote about her feisty attitude: 'I would stand up to them all with a single polka dot'.

She had the first of many exhibitions there in 1959. She met and inspired important artists including Donald Judd, Andy Warhol and Joseph Cornell, and her art was a part of exciting art developments such as pop art and minimalism. She was also one of the first artists to experiment with performance and action art.

As well as being an art pioneer, Yayoi Kusama put her creativity into other things including music, design, writing and fashion.

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Find out who is Yayoi Kusama. Find out about her dots, her art and infinity mirrors with this Tate Kids art homework guide, includes facts for kids.

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Explore Georgia O'Keeffe - Kids' View | Tate Kids

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Watch this video of Tate Kids Media Team as they enter the beautiful, powerful world of O'Keeffe. Find out who Georgia O'Keeffe is with this art homework guide, includes facts for kids.

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Country horse racing was a major sport in South Louisiana, and Rodrigue painted a large series of racing paintings in the early part of his career. In Cajun country the horses raced around coulees, gullies, bridges and under bridges, whereas only the professional country races were run around a track. [...]
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Country horse racing was a major sport in South Louisiana, and Rodrigue painted a large series of racing paintings in the early part of his career. In Cajun country the horses raced around coulees, gullies, bridges and under bridges, whereas only the professional country races were run around a track.

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Monsters, Kids and Anish Kapoor - Kids' View | Tate Kids

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Tate Kids Art Sparks create their own artwork inspired by Anish Kapoor. Find out about Anish Kapoor with this art homework guide, includes facts for kids.

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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art, born in Mumbai. Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. In 2017, Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards.

An image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace.

Kapoor has received several distinctions and prizes, such as the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. and the 2017 Genesis Prize for achievement as a Jewish person.

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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art, born in Mumbai. Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

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As a child I was very quiet. I always drew, or I was painting or looking at paintings in encyclopedias. I kept myself busy with pencil and paper all the time. Art is the thing that I knew I had to do with my life. The first time I went to a museum on a school field trip, I saw a painting of a black person. I remember standing there with my mouth open and just looking at it. I knew in that moment that I could do what I wanted to do.

I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure coming out of graduate school at 30 years old. They really didn't know where it came from. I was running an eight-minute mile and had no idea that my heart was failing. Ten years later I received my transplant at 39. The decision that I made during those ten years was to focus solely on my art. People who don't quit eventually rise to the top.

In March 2016, I found out that I won the National Portrait Gallery Competition. I remember giggling to myself because I complained about having to spend $50 on the application fee. I had to borrow money to get a dress from Rent the Runway and to get to D.C. It was one of those moments where you're at the precipice and you're about to fall over, and then all of a sudden something happens. It got my work seen.

I paint everyday people and want the images to be recognized as universal. For black viewers, it's a place of rest and a place to receive love, to walk into a space like a museum and see an image of a person that looks like you looking back at you. People take for granted that not seeing yourself can lead you to not loving yourself.

I found out that Michelle Obama chose me to paint her official portrait in September 2016. I tend to be like really stoic in times where everyone else is like, oh my god. I was like, alright, this is cool. I can do this. And then I had to forget about it, because it's just a lot to carry around, having to make this painting basically for the world. I had moments when I was driving in my car and I would let myself feel it and cry a little bit. I joke around and I say I didn't survive a heart transplant not to do this.

Working with Michelle Obama was really fun. There are people who don't normally go to museums that are interested in art now. They are seeing themselves in different ways. That's the most important part and focus for myself. Parker Curry, the little girl who went viral looking at the painting, thinks Michelle is a queen and that the National Portrait Gallery is her castle. She has a real, live person to look up to, versus a cartoon character. There's a difference between fantasy and reality. Michelle Obama is reality. This painting is a first and she is a first. So it makes sense that that image doesn't look like the other images, that it is as different as she is in the arc of history.
Sherald will show her work in New York City in the fall of 2019.

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As a child I was very quiet. I always drew, or I was painting or looking at paintings in encyclopedias. I kept myself busy with pencil and paper all the time. Art is the thing that I knew I had to do with my life.

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Chicago Tonight
Clip: 08/30/2017 | 5m 28s

Fifty years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago first opened its doors. They are celebrating with a new exhibition by Takashi Murakami, a superstar artist who was just a toddler in living in Tokyo when the MCA opened in 1967.

Aired: 08/30/17

Rating: NR

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The Spectacular Art World of Takashi Murakami | Season 2017 Episode 08/30/2017 | Chicago Tonight

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Chicago Tonight Clip: 08/30/2017 | 5m 28s Fifty years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago first opened its doors. They are celebrating with a new exhibition by Takashi Murakami, a superstar artist who was just a toddler in living in Tokyo when the MCA opened in 1967.

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