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People | CLOSE-UP Mar 7, 2004

Yayoi Kusama: Lost and found in art

by Monty Dipietro

Yayoi Kusama was just shy of 30 when she left her hometown of Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture and headed to America to meet her hero, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. It was improbable, even quixotic, but Kusama soon developed an artistic style that endeared her to ...

People | CLOSE-UP Mar 3, 2002

Ken Noguchi: Climb (and clean) every mountain

When Ken Noguchi reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1999, at the age of 25 he became the youngest person to have scaled the highest peaks on all seven continents. Born to a Japanese father and Egyptian mother, he grew up moving around ...