Just one month left to see the
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on its last stop in the US!
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| Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession-Love Transformed Into Dots, 2007 |
Tickets for the exhibit went on
sale in September, selling out in three days. If you didn’t manage to purchase
tickets, approximately 100 walk-up tickets are available at the museum daily
until February 10th. Walk-up ticket sales begin 1 hour before the Museum opens
(10 am Tuesday through Saturday, 12pm on Sunday), but it is advised to get
there early as lines form before then.
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| Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room-Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009 |
If making the trip all the way
to Atlanta without a guarantee of getting tickets isn’t an option, you have yet
another chance to score tickets to the highly acclaimed exhibit. High Museum
reserved the final week of tickets to accommodate possible cancellations due to
inclement weather, and these remaining tickets will be released for sale
February 5, at 10 am online at high.org. The tickets are for specific time
slots from February 11 through 17; walk-up tickets will not be sold during this
week.
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| Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born
1929) has been described as one of the twentieth century’s most influential
artists, and the Infinity Mirrors
exhibit earning her the title of most-Instagrammed artist of our times. Organized
by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the exhibit is a showcase of six
decades of Kusama’s work, culminating with the Infinity Mirror Rooms, her
iconic, kaleidoscopic environments. According to the High Museum website, the
exhibition presents six of these rooms as well as sculptures, paintings, works
on paper, film excerpts, archival ephemera, and additional large-scale
installations that span the early 1950s to the present day.
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| Yayoi Kusama: Life (Repetitive Vision), 1998 |
If you do manage to purchase
tickets, be prepared to show up early to give yourself time to park and find
the museum. There is a queue in the lobby, and visitors with tickets are
allowed into the exhibit at the designated time. The Infinity Mirror Rooms have
separate queues, allowing visitors in 2, 3 or 4 at a time. Tip: If you don’t
particularly care who you enter the room with, you may line up in the ‘singles’
line for certain rooms, which will get you in much faster than the main line.
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| Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room-The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013 |
Some of the rooms feature
strobe lights, while others can have a dizzying effect from depth (mis)perception. You only get 20-30
second per room, so take advantage of the moment by experiencing it, instead of
trying to snap photos. You can always duck in a second time for a photo or two.
One room, All the Eternal Love I Have for
the Pumpkins, does not allow photography. Another ‘room’ Love Forever is only for sticking your
head in; in all the Infinity Mirror Rooms the viewer becomes a part of the
exhibit. The final room, The Obliteration
Room, allows guests to place stickers on the surfaces of the room, thereby
leaving their own mark on the exhibit.
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| Yayoi Kusama: The Obliteration Room, 2002-present, installed 2018 |
If you don’t make it to Atlanta
to see the exhibit, next time you’re in Raleigh stop by the North Carolina
Museum of Art. Last year the museum added Yayoi Kusama’s “Light of Life" to
their permanent collection, the porthole exhibit similar to Love Forever. And make sure to use
#infinitekusama when tagging on Instagram…
