Inked

Yayoi Kusama at The Whitney, LGA's new boutique, Xbox aquariums and more in our weekly look at the web

Chinese born, Japan-based artist Pinpin Co draws intricate and potentially disturbing designs directly on her subject’s skin for a uniquely powerful display. Sketched with a 0.38 ink gel pen, each piece takes on a life and history of its own as Co develops a relationship with each subject. An exhibition of the work runs through 16 July at BankART Studio NYK in Yokohama, Japan.

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Yayoi Kusama at The Whitney, LGA's new boutique, Xbox aquariums and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Yayoi Kusama The Whitney Museum of American Art is presenting a retrospective of 60 years of work by Yayoi Kusama, famous for her two-toned paintings of intricate dot patterns that make up large-scale environments. In conjunction with the show, the artist collaborated with Louis Vuitton on a clothing collection entitled “Infinitely Kusama,” and has decked out the windows of the brand’s 57th Street flagship …

Xbox 360 Pico-Reef Aquarium

Yayoi Kusama at The Whitney, LGA's new boutique, Xbox aquariums and more in our weekly look at the web

Blue World Aquariums’ newest creation was made by using a gutted Xbox as a frame and rewiring the existing electrical components for lighting. The small aquarium looks like a piece of living art as “live rock”, a type of old coral skeleton that has been overgrown with new organisms, is illuminated inside the Xbox. The Xbox 360 Pico-Reef Aquarium includes an external filtration system and …