In recent years, she distributed a majority of the foundation's holdings to museums.

Whether through hand-activated sculptures or drawn self-portraits, she found new ways of seeing the world.

Once called "irredeemably hideous," her paintings have today been canonized.

She committed herself to figuration, even when it wasn't always in style.

In her early works, she combatted what she called a "fear and anxiety of drowning in information."

He was known locally for keeping pigeons in a coop on his roof.

The artist founded an apartment gallery that was considered pivotal in Tokyo.

He was found dead following the death of his wife from a stroke.

Her photographs of dolls from her collection of "Koori Kitsch" feature in the current Biennale of Sydney.

He imploded broke down the boundary between art and design.