The New York Times · Art

Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon

· By Blake Gopnik
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On June 4, 1962, the Green Gallery in New York opened the most prophetic of group shows. It gave Andy Warhol his earliest exposure as a pop artist, with an image of dollar bills that was his first silk-screened work. In front of that lay a featureless gray slab by the sculptor Robert Morris; it counts as one of the …

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