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Advanced age and the pandemic have done little to deter Japan’s Yayoi Kusama. At 93, the world’s best-selling living female artist is still painting daily at the psychiatric hospital she voluntarily checked into and has lived in since the 1970s. Best known for her pumpkin sculptures and polka-dot paintings, which can command millions of dollars at auction, Kusama’s success has in the past decade. Some of her latest creations feature alongside early drawings in a new exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum. Bringing together more than 200 works, “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to now” seven decades as the largest retrospective of her art in Asia outside her home country. “Kusama is so much more than pumpkin sculptures and polka-dot patterns,” the museum’s deputy director Doryun Chong explained. “She is a thinker of deep philosophy – a ground-breaking figure who has really revealed so much about herself, her vulnerability and her struggles as the source of for her art.”