Yayoi Kusama Is the Most Popular Artist of 2014

The Japanese Yayoi Kusama is the most popular artist of 2014.

Her latest traveling retrospective, "Infinite Obsessions", has attracted more than 2 million people, forcing the museum to remain open for 36 hours.

But who is Yayoi Kusama, known as the " the poster girl for the globalisation of contemporary art"?

Here are 5 things to know about her.

1. She was only ten years old when she began to suffer from hallucinations.

2. From Japan flies to the United States.

3. Always fan of her, Marc Jacobs in 2012 can involve the artist in the creation of Louis Vuitton's collection.

4. While the art world celebrates with awards and exhibitions, Yayoi for forty years is living voluntarily in a psychiatric hospital. 

5. In the 60 opens the Self-Obliteration church and in '68 celebrated the first gay marriage in America.