Kusama Presents an Orgy of Nudity, Love, Sex & Beauty is an experimental artist periodical created by Yayoi Kusama in New York in 1969. Published during one of the most radical periods of her career, the magazine sits at the intersection of contemporary art, sexual liberation, anti-war activism, underground publishing, fashion, and late-1960s counterculture.
The publication was issued by Enterprise Modern Services Inc. in New York and produced in offset print. Surviving original issues are documented at approximately 44 × 29 cm / 17.3 × 11.4 in, with around 24 pages, and were issued unsigned and unnumbered in an edition of unknown size.
The magazine documented Kusama’s provocative performances and public happenings while also including photographs, articles, personal advertisements, fashion imagery, and sexually explicit countercultural material. The first issue included coverage of events such as her Nude Happening on Wall Street and other performances that used the naked body as a means of challenging conventional ideas about identity, sexuality, politics, and social conformity.
During this period, Kusama was staging numerous public actions in New York, including anti-war happenings at locations such as Wall Street, Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden. These performances frequently involved nude participants painted with polka dots and were intended both as artistic interventions and as political statements against war and social repression.
The title also reflects Kusama’s broader expansion beyond conventional gallery practice. By the late 1960s she was producing fashion, organizing body-painting events, running a boutique, staging happenings, and using print media as another platform for her ideas. The periodical therefore functions as both an artwork and a historical document of Kusama’s New York counterculture years.
Original copies are now highly collectible. A first issue has been described by specialist dealers as an exceptionally rare example of late-1960s counterculture ephemera, while museum and archive sources recognize the publication as an important component of Kusama’s experimental practice during this period.
An important collectible for admirers of Yayoi Kusama, artist publications, performance art, 1960s counterculture, underground magazines, feminist art, anti-war art, and experimental publishing.
