In her essay from 1945 to Now, curator Isabella Tam devotes pages to placing Kusama’s work in the context of ancient Chinese and Japanese traditions and forms. This is fine as an artistic or intellectual exercise, but it might be more straightforward to recognize that Kusama’s use of Black people as props also places her literature as an inheritor of a more disappointing tradition: American racism.

I've always thought Kusama's work was mostly just boring. Fascinating to learn she was also crazy racist

The Last Museum is a semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks from the world's great museums. Search by theme, style, subject, or any description you can imagine.

Warning that this feels like LLMs are involved but at least the art is not generated at all. Still, could be useful as a search engine for historical art.

His purpose was pure. This isn’t to say it was innocent. Pure purpose is madness. Purity of any kind is intolerant to us. Either we besmirch it with our meddling, or it dissolves us.

A PDF scan of a beautiful 1986 collection of Soviet art from and about the Great Patriotic War, also known as WW2.