Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's (b. 1929) work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Lynn Zelevansky is an art historian, curator, and writer based in New York. She is the former Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh as well as curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Robert Slifkin is the Edith Kitzmiller Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he teaches classes on modern and contemporary art and photography.