{"id":35094,"date":"2021-08-12T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/japan-tropical-storm-batters-famous-yayoi-kusama-sculpture"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:13:24","slug":"yayoi-kusama-pumpkin-sculpture-washed-into-sea-by-japan-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35094","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist\u2019s work, which was swept off a pier near Naoshima<\/p>\n<p>Experts are determining whether it is possible to reconstruct one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s most recognisable works of modern art after it was badly damaged during a recent tropical storm.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/yayoi-kusama\">Yayoi Kusama<\/a>, has stood at the end of a pier on the \u201cart island\u201d of Naoshima in the Seto inland sea since 1994.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/japan-tropical-storm-batters-famous-yayoi-kusama-sculpture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist\u2019s work, which was swept off a pier near NaoshimaExperts are determining whether it is possible to reconstruct one of Japan\u2019s most recognisable works of modern art after it was badly damaged during a rec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,41,88,1065,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sculpture","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35094\/revisions\/35095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}