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Once a fixture of the 1960s pop and minimalist scenes in New York, Japan's "polka dot queen" found huge commercial success in her later decades.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The "polka dot queen" channelled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
"People should have the truth from day dot and things aren't masked, because you can quite easily get a replacement passport for a horse that has nothing in it."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 2012 it added the interest rate each official thought appropriate, the chart known as the dot plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The claim that the earth is a dot compared to the universe had already been made by Pliny, Natural History, 11:68.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
She is best known for her monochromatic abstract paintings evoking fishing nets, and for canvases and large spaces covered with polka dots, evoking hallucinations she had as a child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Kusama said she saw hallucinations of dots and lights as a child, and used those visions in her art from the 1960s.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The "polka dot queen" channelled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
This is a tale of two documentaries that tell one big story ... if we connect the dots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Human dots in the distance travel up and down glass elevators on each corner.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Iranian banks dotted around Dubai remained open this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
After so long on the road, driving past despair dotted along the road’s shoulders, Day brushes off a cry for help with a joke.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The waters between Turkey and Greece are dotted with endless tiny islands, as Odysseus learned the hard way, many of them reachable by rowboat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"You can see little green stars all dotted around."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The grounds extend into endless meadows dotted with more huts and construction.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
From the airport lounge to roundabouts dotting Benin's economic capital Cotonou, images of his smiling face framed by his round glasses have been prominent for weeks.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Should boomtowns dotting the new market be expected to shrink back into villages—or less?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Benefitting from quick ball, the visitors drove into the Saints 22, before Marcus Smith eventually found Cleaves on a perfect line to split the home defence before dotting down.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
It was a bright, sunny day, and Seattle looked like a beautiful place, with inlets and bridges, wooded islands dotting the bay, and snowcapped mountains rising in the distance.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
