Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, known for dots and pumpkins, dies at 97

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Kusama, who was candid about her mental health struggles, said New York gave her neuroses.

Around 1977, a few years after returning to Japan, she voluntarily entered a mental hospital.