Like the endless polka-dots she created, Yayoi Kusama was a floating presence in the avant-garde movement and in the art world overall. “I was betting everything on this and raising my revolutionary banner against all of history,” she wrote of her trademark pattern. Born to a conservative Japanese family in 1929, Kusama began painting to reckon with hallucinations, translating her obsessive process of self-obliteration into hypnotic “infinity nets,” paintings filled with the tiny holes that crowded her mind. In 1965, she made the first of many mirrored Infinity Rooms, spaces that invited viewers into her unique vision. “By continually reproducing the forms of things that terrify me,” she wrote, “I am able to suppress the fear.” In the 1970s, however, she checked herself into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. It became her home, and her creativity expanded. Kusama died last month on August 14. This retrospective in Amsterdam, spanning seven decades, is now a posthumous tribute to her playful and exploratory career. It contains new works created specifically for the show. —Maggie Turner