Put a Yayoi Kusama on Your Wall for Just $200—or Take It for a Ride
The Infinity Rooms artist has a new partnership with MoMa Design Store that will set your wheels spinning.
Yayoi Kusama Black Dots Skateboard available exclusively at MoMA Design Store.
Photographer: Will Anderson for Bloomberg Businessweek
Just as skateboarding has long been adjacent to mainstream sporting but not quite a part of it, Yayoi Kusama, with her dazzling Infinity Mirror Rooms and landscapes of polka-dotted pumpkins, was an art world outsider for many of her early years. Now a collaboration with the MoMA Design Store will allow fans to take home a piece of her idiosyncratic vision—or even ride off on it. The 89-year-old Japanese artist has emblazoned her beloved dots, in vibrant shades of yellow and black or red and white, on the decks of $200 skateboards. The release is perfectly timed: Skateboarding makes its debut at the Olympics in 2020 in Tokyo, Kusama’s city of residence and the location of a new museum dedicated to her work.
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